The fortification on Cecina (also Chotin and Kamienetz) was built by the polish king Kazimir the great.
(Dlugosz in Hist. Pol.)
This is what I learned.
Peter
On Sep 30, 2010, at 7:47 PM, Gerhardrodica wrote:
> I skied as a boy in what was in 1938 called Tsetsina. My apologies to all=
> those who do not like Romania, but the ruins there hail from an early for=
> tification built by the Moldavian ruler
> "voevod" Alexander the Good (Alexandru cel Bun) as a defensive fortificati=
> on against Polish troops. This is what I learned in school.=20
>
>
> Gerhard Schreiber
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