Cerchezu

Cerchezu Circassian
Basic data
State :	Romania
Historical region :	Dobruja
Circle :	Constanța
Municipality :	local community
Coordinates :	43 ° 50 '  N , 28 ° 6'  E Coordinates: 43 ° 49 '30 "  N , 28 ° 5' 53"  E
Time zone :	EET ( UTC +2)
Height :	131  m
Area :	72.67  km²
Residents :	1,289 (October 20, 2011)
Population density :	18 inhabitants per km²
Postal code :	907045
Telephone code :	(+40) 02 41
License plate :	CT
Structure and administration (as of 2016)
Structure :	Cerchezu, Căscioarele , Măgura , Viroaga
Mayor :	Ștefan Chelaru ( PSD )
Postal address :	Str. General Cerchezu nr.28 Cerchezu, jud. Constanța, RO- 907045
Website :	primariacerchezu.ro

Cerchezu is a municipality in the Constanța County in Romania . The Cerchezu municipality also includes the villages of Căscioarele , Măgura and Viroaga .

location

Location of Cerchezu in the Constanța district

Cerchezu is located in the south of the Constanța district, not far from the border with Bulgaria .

Neighboring places

Magura	Viroaga	Chirogeni
Izvorovo (BG)		Negru Voda
Kapinovo (BG)	Cardam (BG)	Yovkovo (BG)

etymology

Cerchezu (historical name: Cerchezchioi , Turkish: Çerkezköy, German: Tscherkess). The name goes back to the minority of the Circassians who settled in the area.

Căscioarele (historical name: Mamuşlia , Turkish: Mamuşlu, German: Mamuslia)

Măgura (historical name: Docuzaci , Turkish: Dokuzağaç)

Viroaga (historical name: Calfachioi , Turkish: Kalfaköy)

The municipality also includes the area of ​​the former village of Căciulați (historical name: Cealmagea ) which was added to Viroaga during the administrative reform in 1968.

Demographics

At the 2011 census, Cerchezu had 1,287 residents of Romanian origin (99.84%) and 2 others (0.16%). Before the Second World War , the community had a small German minority that was settled in the north of the place, a small Turkish minority settled in the south of the place. Paul Traeger gives the German-speaking number of people in Cerchezu at the time of his visit in 1917 as 5 people. According to Traeger, it was also typical that the local mill was run by Germans in many places in Dobruja. The mill owner in Cerchezu from 1918 until his death in 1938 was Christian Trautwein. A German school was located in Mamuslia.

According to the map, based on the official Romanian documents on ethnicity from 1930, Cerchezu does not have any German residents, but there were around 15. For Mamuslia, 3 km to the north (now the district of Cerchezu), predominantly Germans (350 inhabitants) besides approx 50 Romanians counted.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Paul Traeger: The Germans in the Dobrudscha , 1922, p. 119.
2. ↑ https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ad/Constanta_(ethnic).JPG