Alexandria is a town of
Romania, situated among the rich corn-lands of the Teleorman department, on the right bank of the river
Vedea. Its population in
1900 was 13,675. Its chief trade is in grain, despatched by rail to the Danubian port of
Zimnicea[?], or by river to
Giurgevo[?]. Alexandria was named after its founder,
Alexander John Cuza, prince of Romania from
1859 to
1866.
(from an old encyclopedia)