Sulina
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| State : |
 Romania
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| Historical region : | Dobruja | ||||
| Circle : | Tulcea | ||||
| Coordinates : | 45 ° 9 ' N , 29 ° 40' E | ||||
| Time zone : | EET ( UTC +2) | ||||
| Height : | 4 m | ||||
| Area : | 115 km² | ||||
| Residents : | 3,663 (October 20, 2011) | ||||
| Population density : | 32 inhabitants per km² | ||||
| Postal code : | 825400 | ||||
| Telephone code : | (+40) 02 40 | ||||
| License plate : | TL | ||||
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| Community type : | city | ||||
| Mayor : | Nicolae Răduș ( PSD ) | ||||
| Postal address : | Strada I, no. 180 loc. Sulina, jud. Tulcea, RO-825400 |
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Sulina is the only city within the Romanian part of the Danube Delta at the mouth of the Sulina arm in the Black Sea .
history
The city is not connected to the Romanian road network and can therefore only be reached by boat. Already in the Byzantine and later Genoese and Turkish times it was an important river and sea port, in the 19th century it was even the seat of the European Danube Commission . Due to its isolated location and the construction of newer and larger Romanian Danube ports (for example in Giurgiu or Galați ), the city lost massive importance in the 20th century. Today the unemployment rate is around 40%.
The old lighthouse from 1887 , some old villas on the quay and the large cemetery are testimonies to their past. Sulina has a sandy beach on the Black Sea that is many kilometers long, but tourism is still in its infancy.
Until 1948, Snake Island belonged to Romania and the city of Sulina.
The kilometering of the Danube began "at the mouth at Sulina". Over time, further areas were landed in the Danube Delta, so that the mouth into the Black Sea is now a few kilometers further, "before" the then established kilometer "0". The altitude information along the Danube is related to the sea level in Sulina up to river kilometer 1075.
photos
Sulina and the Sulina estuary (drawing, 1859)
New lighthouse
The St. Nicholas and Alexander Cathedral
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literature
- Thomas Bauer: Eastward - two thousand kilometers of the Danube. With the paddle boat to the Black Sea. Wiesenburg Verlag, Schweinfurt 2008, ISBN 978-3-940756-00-8 ; Including DVD travel and writing .
- Christian Reder, Erich Klein (ed.): Gray Danube, Black Sea. Vienna Sulina Odessa Yalta Istanbul (research, discussions, essays). Edition Transfer, Springer, Vienna / New York 2008, ISBN 978-3-211-75482-5
Web links
- Romania - along the wild Danube to the Black Sea . Welt online , September 25, 2009
Individual evidence
- ↑ 2011 census in Romania at citypopulation.de
- ↑ Absolute height of the gauge zero points above sea level. Danube Commission , accessed April 11, 2012
