Talk:Oltenian Sahara

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frustated people
should people when they go onto the web they should get the right answers not the wrong answers because when i go onto the neti allways get the wrong answer not the ones i wont —Preceding unsigned comment added by 123.200.235.200 (talk) 04:37, 15 June 2008 (UTC)

Desert?
The article does not cite any sources. I am astonished to see "The Oltenian Sahara" as a world's desert. I think that a desert around a city, surrounded by the second longest river in Europe (Danube) is a joke. That is especially funny, since the land on the other bank of the river is among the most fertile in neighboring Bulgaria. The article looks like an advertisement of the Sand Museum in Dăbuleni. If there are no sources supporting the status of a desert (outside of the local folklore) the tone in the article should be changed and the name removed from the. BloodIce (talk) 18:13, 8 November 2010 (UTC)

The region covered is incorrect
Take a look (using Google Maps satellite view) at southern Romania starting near Dăbuleni, one of the cities mentioned in the article. You see a lot of ground that is the brown color you expect of sand. The other city, Calafat, is a long ways to the west near the Danube. Notice that the brown area does not reach Calafat - so, what is the source for it going to Calafat?

Again, looking at the satellite view, it appears the western boundary of this desertified area is the #55 highway. It goes nowhere near Calafat. Instead it spreads northward and eastward, but does not reach the River Olt.

The article reference I just added talks about the area getting to within 20km of Craiova. Again, looking at satellite view, we see the same brown color near Malu Mare, a small city outside Craiova.

Another thing clear in satellite view is that the brown color is not consistent, because there are patches of green, with a few larger areas of green, including an area that looks like dense forest. Greentransportation (talk) 19:41, 13 May 2023 (UTC)