Corbi (Argeș)

Corbi

Basic data

State :

Romania

Historical region :

Great Wallachia

Circle :

Argeș

Coordinates :

45 ° 17 ' N , 24 ° 48' E Coordinates: 45 ° 17 '10 " N , 24 ° 48' 6" E

Time zone :

EET ( UTC +2)

Height :

540 m

Area :

56.52 km²

Residents :

3,784 (October 20, 2011)

Population density :

67 inhabitants per km²

Postal code :

117285

Telephone code :

(+40) 02 48

License plate :

AG

Structure and administration (as of 2016)

Structure :

Corbi, Corbșori , Jgheaburi , Poduri , Poienărei , Stănești

Mayor :

Virgil Baciu ( PNL )

Postal address :

St. Voicu Corvin, no. 235
loc. Corbi, jud. Argeș, RO-117285

Website :

www.primariacorbi.ro

Others

City Festival :

Community festival Sf. Petru si Pavel , on June 29th every year

Corbi (outdated Corbii de Piatra [in German stone ravens ]) is a Romanian community in the Argeş district in Great Wallachia .

Geographical location

Location of Corbi in Argeș County

In the foothills of the Iezer-Păpușa Mountains, a mountain range of the Southern Carpathians ( Carpații Meridionali ), in the valley of the Doamnei - a left tributary of the Argeș -, the place is on the district road ( Drum județean ) DJ 731. The town of Curtea de Argeș ( Argish ) is to the southwest; the small town of Câmpulung ( Langenau ) to the east, each about 30 kilometers; the district capital Piteşti is about 55 kilometers south of Corbi.

history

The place Corbi was first mentioned in 1456 in the historical region of Wallachia ( Țara Românească ), in a Slavic document in Târgovişte .

After the founding of the Romanian principalities of Wallachia and Moldova , serfs , especially from the outskirts of Transylvania , were settled as free residents in the Muntenia region ("mountainous country") in the 15th and 16th centuries . When the unrest began in the 18th century - the peasant uprising of 1784 - many Romanian serfs flee from Transylvania to Wallachia. So a part of the population from the place Jina (Eng. Sinna or Schinna ) - in today's Sibiu district - settled here in Corbi. In contrast to other places in the region, the settlers here in Corbi met a local community in decline and so they were able to assert themselves with their customs and traditions, and have maintained them to this day.

population

The 2002 census counted 4,395 inhabitants in the area of the municipality. 4392 of them described themselves as Romanians , two as Roma and one as Italian .

The main occupation of the population is livestock (mainly sheep) and fruit growing . Of the approximately 5600 hectares of the community area, about 400 hectares are used for agriculture.

Attractions

The Trinity Church ( Sf. Treime ; str. Voicu Corvin 282), built in 1830, is a listed building.

The rock church Sf. Apostoli Petru şi Pavel ( ⊙ ) in the incorporated village of Jgheaburi , built at the beginning of the 15th century, renovated in 1814 and a small wooden church in front of it built in the 19th century, are under monument protection.45.2753394 24.8115492

The Gheorghe Popescu houses on St. Învăţător Popescu 1, built in 1934 and the Ion Constantinescu rectory at st. Preot Constantinescu 38, built in 1928 in the incorporated village of Poienărei , is a listed building.