Giurgevo, a town and river port of Rou-mania, in Wallaehia, on the left bank of the Danube, opposite Rustchuk, and 34 m. S. by W. of Bucharest; pop. about 15,000. Its citadel, the only one of its fortifications remaining, stands on an island in the Danube called Slobodze, and is connected with the town by a bridge. Next to Braila it is the most important port on the Wallachian bank of the Danube, and. carries on a considerable trade with Germany and Hungary. Giurgevo has figured in almost all the Turkish wars on the lower Danube, from the loth century down to the war of 1853.