Our school name is MATEI BASARAB. It’s
a public primary and middle school
teaching 657 pupils aged 6 to 15, in
Târgovişte, Romania.

MATEI BASARAB
was an important prince ruling
the country (1632–1654) while
Târgovişte was the capital city.
He was an enlightened ruler,
and is noted for introducing
the printing press to Wallachia
(1634) and creating the first Wallachian
code of laws as well as patronizing
art and religion (founder of the first
upper school in Wallachia).

The computer room for pupils
studying Informatics as optional subject.

The Chemistry and Physics lab for older pupils
(6th, 7th and 8th grades).

Our school library that has lots of books
ready for the pupils who love reading.

That’s a classroom.

This is our teachers room.

Romania lies in central-eastern part of Europe bordering Bulgaria (to the south), Republic of Moldova and Ukraine (to the east), the Black Sea (to the south-east), Ukraine (to the north), Hungary (to the north-west), Serbia (to the south-east).

Romania consists of 3 large provinces called Muntenia (Wallachia), Transilvania (Transylvania) and Moldova (Moldavia).

Romania is divided into 41 judete (counties) plus Bucharest (the capital city).

Târgoviste lies in Muntenia province, in Dâmbovita county that borders Brasov (to the north), Prahova (to the east), Arges (to the west), Teleorman and Giurgiu (to the south) and Ilfov (to the south-east) counties.

Târgoviste is the county residence city or the so-called county capital.

TÂRGOVIŞTE is the capital city of the Dâmboviţa county, Romania. It is situated on the right bank of the Ialomiţa River, at 80 km far from Bucharest, the actual capital city of Romania. There are about 90 000 inhabitants.

First attested in 1396, in the Travel Accounts of Johannes Schiltberger, Targoviste was the capital city of the Wallachian voivodship between 1396 and 1714 when the Royal Court ("Curtea Domnească") and the Chindia Tower (“Turnul Chindia”), now the symbol of the city, were built.

It is known as “The city of 33 voivods” as there were 33 princes who ruled the whole country from Târgovişte when it was the capital city. Among them we can mention Vlad Ţepeş (known as Dracula from the horror novel “Dracula” written by the Irish novelist Bram Stoker). Chindia Tower was added to the Royal Court during the regime of Vlad Ţepeş.