High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Radu Vod Monastery is a Romanian Orthodox monastery in Bucharest, Romania. Because of its favorable environment and the elevated terrain close to a big river, the area of the monastery was inhabited starting from the Paleolithic (estimated somewhere between 1,000,000 and 10,000 BC). It is the site of the oldest known settlement on the territory of Romania. Following the Paleolithic settlement there was an uninterrupted settlement during the Neolithic with tools from the Neolithic, the bronze age (1800-800 BC), and the iron age (800 BC - AD 300).