Medgidia

Medgidia
Basic data
State :	Romania
Historical region :	Dobruja
Circle :	Constanța
Coordinates :	44 ° 15 '  N , 28 ° 16'  E Coordinates: 44 ° 15 '1 "  N , 28 ° 15' 41"  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
Website :	www.emedgidia.ro

Medgidia ( pronunciation ^{? / I} ; 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

• Clinker silo from Lafarge-Werke Medgidia

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

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

• Medgidia at ghidulprimariilor.ro

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 2011 census in Romania at citypopulation.de
2. ↑ Kemal H. Karpat: Ottoman Urbanism. 2002, p. 202 f.