Chitila

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Chitila
Chitila coat of arms
Chitila (Romania)
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Basic data
State : RomaniaRomania Romania
Historical region : Great Wallachia
Circle : Ilfov
Coordinates : 44 ° 30 '  N , 25 ° 59'  E Coordinates: 44 ° 30 '12 "  N , 25 ° 59' 24"  E
Time zone : EET ( UTC +2)
Area : 12.54  km²
Residents : 14,184 (October 20, 2011)
Population density : 1,131 inhabitants per km²
Postal code : 077045
Telephone code : (+40) 02 1
License plate : IF
Structure and administration (as of 2016)
Community type : city
Structure : 1 District / cadastral municipality: Rudeni
Mayor : Emilian Oprea ( PNL )
Postal address : St. Ion Olteanu. 6
loc. Chitila, jud. Ilfov, RO-077045
Website :

Chitila is a town in Ilfov County in Romania .

location

Chitila is located in the Wallachian Plain on the Colentina River , directly on the northwestern outskirts of Bucharest . The center of the Romanian capital is about 12 km away.

history

Chitila probably originated in the 15th century. The place was dominated by agriculture for a long time and was owned by the Wallachian noble families Brâncoveanu and Bibescu. The character of the village changed with the increasing spatial expansion of Bucharest - which made Chitila a suburb of the Romanian capital - and with the opening of the Bucharest – Galați – Roman railway line , which runs through Chitila. Since 1882 the railway line to Târgovişte branched off in Chitila , so that the place became a railway junction. A large marshalling yard was built (today Bucharest-Triaj). In 1892 the place became the seat of a community. As a result, Rudeni and some other places were incorporated, which are no longer official districts today. At the beginning of the 20th century there was a temporary military airfield and a flight school for the Romanian army. After the Second World War, the food and wood processing industries established themselves. In 2005 Chitila was declared a city after the majority of the residents voted in favor of it in a referendum.

population

In 1892, 437 residents were registered in Chitila. At the 2002 census, 12,643 people lived in today's city, including 12,360 Romanians , 236 Roma and 10 Germans . In 2011, 12,595 of the 14,184 people identified themselves as Romanians, 547 as Roma, three each as Germans and Magyars, and the rest did not provide any information about their ethnic group.

traffic

Chitila has a train station from which local trains run to Bucharest, Ploieşti and Târgovişte. The city is connected to Bucharest's public transport system via bus lines . National road 7 runs through the city from Bucharest to Piteşti.

Attractions

Chitila does not have any particular tourist attractions.

Web links

Commons : Chitila  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b 2011 census in Romania at citypopulation.de
  2. ↑ O istorie sumară a Aviaţiei Române ( Memento from September 5, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
  3. ↑ a b Document of the Romanian House of Representatives, accessed on January 1, 2009 (PDF; 1.2 MB)
  4. ↑ 2002 census