Culă

A culă (plural: cule; from Turkish kule "tower, turret") is a semi-fortified building found in the Oltenia region of Romania with a number of examples located in the historical province of Muntenia. They were originally built as homes for the ruling Boyar class to defend against incursions by Ottoman troops during the Ottoman–Habsburg wars or against violent raids by rebels from the south of the Danube during the Stagnation of the Ottoman Empire (e.g. Osman Pazvantoğlu).

List of cule

Oltenia:

• Cula Barbu Poenaru (1750), Almăj, Dolj
• Cula Izvoranu, from Brabova, Dolj
• Cula Crăsnaru (1808), Groşerea, Aninoasa, Gorj
• Cula Cornoiu from Curtişoara, Gorj
• Cula Cartianu from Cartiu, Gorj
• Cula Grecescu (1818), Şiacu, Slivileşti, Gorj
• Cula Cuţui (1815) din Broşteni, Mehedinţi
• Cula lui Tudor Vladimirescu (1800) from Cerneţi, Mehedinţi
• Cula Nistor (1812), from Cerneţi, Mehedinţi
• Cula Galiţa (1790), Câmpu Mare, comuna Dobroteasa, Mehedinţi
• Cula de la Bujoreni, Vâlcea
• Cula Greceanu from Măldărești, Vâlcea (the oldest in Romania, approximately 1517)
• Cula din Zătreni (1754), Zătreni, Vâlcea

Muntenia:

• Cula Racoviţa, Mioveni, Argeş ^[1]
• Cula Drugănescu Retevoieşti, Argeş ^[2]
• Cula lui Costea, from Frăsinet, Teleorman

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Boyars.

• http://www.kule.ro/en/ Romanian kulas