History
| Historical population | ||
|---|---|---|
| Year | Pop. | ±% |
| 1912 | 23,643 | — |
| 1930 | 21,107 | −10.7% |
| 1948 | 31,296 | +48.3% |
| 1956 | 32,486 | +3.8% |
| 1966 | 45,397 | +39.7% |
| 1977 | 76,686 | +68.9% |
| 1992 | 115,259 | +50.3% |
| 2002 | 104,035 | −9.7% |
| 2011 | 86,475 | −16.9% |
| Source: Census data | ||
The first written document, mentioning the city 1,870 years earlier, was commemorated in 1992.
Read more about this topic: Drobeta-Turnu Severin
Famous quotes containing the word history:
“... that there is no other way,
That the history of creation proceeds according to
Stringent laws, and that things
Do get done in this way, but never the things
We set out to accomplish and wanted so desperately
To see come into being.”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)
“To history therefore I must refer for answer, in which it would be an unhappy passage indeed, which should shew by what fatal indulgence of subordinate views and passions, a contest for an atom had defeated well founded prospects of giving liberty to half the globe.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)
“We have need of history in its entirety, not to fall back into it, but to see if we can escape from it.”
—José Ortega Y Gasset (1883–1955)