Pitesti

[ pi-tesht ]

noun

1. a city in S central Romania, on the Argeş River.

Example Sentences

According to the DNSC, 25 hospitals were affected by the attack, starting with the The Pitesti Paediatric Hospital.

From BBC

We left the capital midweek, driving west on the modern main highway through Pitesti — then veering north to Curtea de Arges, on the threshold of Transylvania.

From Washington Post

Among the detainees that survived Pitesti are Romanian Orthodox priest Gheorghe Calciu-Dumitreasa who spent 21 years as a political prisoner and Corneliu Coposu, an anti-communist politician and well-known dissident who died in 1995.

From Seattle Times

Several thousand prisoners who had fallen foul of the communist regime underwent what was known as “The Pitesti Experiment.”

From Seattle Times

The collection of 11 sculptures at the Pitesti Prison, southern Romania, aims to remind visitors about the horrors that took place there from 1949 to 1951.

From Seattle Times