Drobeta-Turnu Severin is a city in Mehedinți County, Oltenia, Romania, on the northern bank of the Danube, close to the Iron Gates.

The city administers three villages: Dudașu Schelei, Gura Văii, and Schela Cladovei. The city’s population is of 92,617 (2011), up from 18,628 in 1900.

Geography and climate

It is situated in western Oltenia, at the edge of the Topolnița depression, 220 km south-east of Timișoara, 113 km west of Craiova and 353 km west of Bucharest.

The region’s climate gives Severin warm summers and mild winters, meaning the city is home to magnolia trees, Caucasian nut trees, and ginkgo biloba as well as the almond trees, figs, lilacs, lindens, and chestnut trees more common throughout Europe. The climate in the region can be classified as a “sub-Mediterranean climate“.