Ecaterina Teodoroiu Monument
Architecture and historical monuments
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The monument is dedicated to Ecaterina Teodoroiu, heroine of the First World War. She took part in laying the foundations of the first scouting organizations in Romania.
During the First World War, she first worked as a nurse on the front in her native region, then enlisted in the Romanian army. For her merits on the front, she was promoted to the rank of second lieutenant. In this capacity, she led an infantry platoon during the battle of Mărăşeşti (1917), during which she was shot dead, at only 23 years old.
There are also monuments dedicated to Ecaterina Teodoroiu in the country: in Slatina, erected in 1925, being the first, in Braila (1928), in Tisita (1934, author Oscar Han), in Azuga (1937), in the village of Muncelu towards Soveja (1972 ), in front of the Marasesti Mausoleum and at Tg-Jiu- the statue made by Iulia Onita (1978).
