Negru Vodă (Constanța)
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 Romania
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| Historical region : | Dobruja | ||||
| Circle : | Constanța | ||||
| Coordinates : | 43 ° 49 ' N , 28 ° 13' E | ||||
| Time zone : | EET ( UTC +2) | ||||
| Height : | 150 m | ||||
| Area : | 164.90 km² | ||||
| Residents : | 5,088 (October 20, 2011) | ||||
| Population density : | 31 inhabitants per km² | ||||
| Postal code : | 905800 | ||||
| Telephone code : | (+40) 02 41 | ||||
| License plate : | CT | ||||
| Structure and administration (as of 2016) | |||||
| Community type : | city | ||||
| Structure : | 3 districts / cadastral communities: Darabani , Grăniceru , Vâlcelele | ||||
| Mayor : | Petre Urziceanu ( PNL ) | ||||
| Postal address : | Șoseaua Mangaliei, no. 13 loc. Negru Vodă, jud. Constanța, RO-905800 |
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| City Festival : | June | ||||
Negru Vodă (formerly Cara Omer , Turkish Karaömer ) is a town in Constanța County in Dobruja ( Dobrogea ) in Constanta County in Romania .
location
Negru Vodă is located in the Dobruja hills, a few kilometers north of the Bulgarian border. The district capital Constanța is located about 55 kilometers northeast.
history
Barrows from the time of the Roman Empire were discovered on the territory of today's city . The place was founded in 1715. At that time it was on the territory of the Ottoman Empire . After the Russo-Ottoman War (1877-1878) he came to Romania. During the First World War , Cara Omer was the scene of fierce fighting between German units on the one hand and Russian and Romanian troops on the other.
In the 1950s and 1960s, the place had the status of a Rajon within the then administrative division of Romania . In 1989 Negru Vodă was declared a city.
The main industries are agriculture and trade.
population
In 1930 of the 4800 inhabitants on the territory of today's city, about 3850 were Romanians , 600 Turks and Tatars , 100 Bulgarians and 50 each were Russians , Roma , Armenians , Gagauz and Germans. In 2002 there were 5552 people in Negru Vodă, including 5404 Romanians, 73 Turks and 63 Tatars. About 4500 lived in the city proper, the rest in the three incorporated villages.
traffic
Negru Vodă is located on the cross-border railway line from Medgidia to Varna . Currently (2009) three local trains run to and from Medgidia per day. In summer there is a daily express train to Bucharest and Varna. The national road Drum național 38 runs through the city from Constanța to the Bulgarian border. There is a road border crossing after Kardam ( border crossing Kardam-Negru Vodă ).
Attractions
- Pădurea Hagieni-Cotu Văii nature reserve
Others
On August 17, 1900, one of the largest recorded amounts of precipitation in Europe was measured in Negru Vodă; 320 mm of rain fell in just four hours.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ 2011 census in Romania at citypopulation.de
- ↑ List of historical monuments of the Romanian Ministry of Culture, updated 2010 (PDF; 7.10 MB)
- ↑ Dan Ghinea: Enciclopedia geografică a României: HP (Vol. 2). Editura Enciclopedică, 1998. p. 242
- ↑ Casimir Hermann Baer: The war of nations. A chronicle of the events since July 1, 1914. Verlag J. Hoffmann, 1919. P. 100
- ^ Website of the city, accessed on May 27, 2009 ( Memento of October 12, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ 2002 census, accessed May 27, 2009
- ↑ Meteorological Journal. German Meteorological Society, Austrian Society for Meteorology. A. Asher & Co. 1901; Issue 18
