Medgidia
Medgidia | ||||
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Basic data | ||||
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State : | Romania | |||
Historical region : | Dobruja | |||
Circle : | Constanța | |||
Coordinates : | 44 ° 15 ' N , 28 ° 16' E | |||
Time zone : | EET ( UTC +2) | |||
Height : | 75 m | |||
Area : | 66.63 km² | |||
Residents : | 39,780 (October 20, 2011) | |||
Population density : | 597 inhabitants per km² | |||
Postal code : | 905600 | |||
Telephone code : | (+40) 02 41 | |||
License plate : | CT | |||
Structure and administration (as of 2016) | ||||
Community type : | Municipality | |||
Structure : | Remus Opreanu , Valea Dacilor | |||
Mayor : | Valentin Vrabie (independent) | |||
Postal address : | St. Decebal, no. 35 loc. Medgidia, jud. Constanța, RO-905600 |
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Medgidia ( Turkish originally Karasu , later Mecidiye ) is a city in Romania and is located in the Constanța district in the Dobrudscha region (Roman. Dobrogea ).
;history
Medgidia was named after the Ottoman Sultan Abdülmecid I , who founded the city in 1856 . Since then, Medgidia has been a center of Islam in Romania .
The city presents itself in its self-image as a cosmopolitan and easily accessible industrial city that has been developing since 1950 . In a self-description it says, "Romanians, Turks, Tatars, Macedonians, Greeks and Armenians are famous for their harmonious coexistence". The oldest preserved building in the city is the Abdul Medgid Mosque , one of two Islamic sacred buildings in the city.
There is also a secondary Turkish school which is co-financed by Turkey and which teaches the students not only Romanian but also the Turkish language . It is attended by Turkish and Tatar students. Turkish is taught at the school . A boarding school is also available. English is taught as the third language .
economy
There is a large machine factory in Medgidia. The city also has a transshipment port on the right bank of the Danube-Black Sea Canal , which shortens the route from the Danube to the Black Sea by around 240 kilometers. The capacity of the plants is 11.5 million tons annually. Other important branches of the economy are agriculture and viticulture.
Buildings
literature
- Kemal H. Karpat: Ottoman Urbanism: The Crimean emigration to Dobruca and the founding of Mecidiye, 1856–1878. In: Kemal H. Karpat: Studies on Ottoman social and political history. Selected articles and essays (= Social, Economic, and Political Studies of the Middle East and Asia. Vol. 81). Brill, Leiden et al. 2002, ISBN 90-04-12101-3 , pp. 202-234.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ 2011 census in Romania at citypopulation.de
- ↑ Kemal H. Karpat: Ottoman Urbanism. 2002, p. 202 f.