In 1916 the Romanian prisoners present in Italy were divided as it follows: 3,600 in the prison camp of Mantua, 2,000 in Cavarzere, 800 in Ostiglia and 800 in Chiaravalle, zones sufficiently distant from the areas of military operations. Stefan Delureanu, Voluntarii români în Italia şi idealul reîntregirii naţionale , în „Tomis“, an XXIII, 1988, nr. 8 (222), p. 13 These came from Transylvania, Banat and Bucovina.
