The upper plateux area of Mehedinți is historically connected to the town of Baia de Aramă. The area was known first in the early 19th century as Plaiul Munțelui, but locally took the name Plaiul Cloșanilor following the success of fighters from Cloșani during the 1821 revolution.

The ethnographic zone also includes the depression to the south east of the uplands between Ilovăț and Bala ^[1], other regional reports include the lower areas further southeast (the line east of Drobeta).