Turnu Magurele
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Turnu Măgurele Grand Nicople |
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 Romania
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| Historical region : | Great Wallachia | ||||
| Circle : | Teleorman | ||||
| Coordinates : | 43 ° 45 ' N , 24 ° 52' E | ||||
| Time zone : | EET ( UTC +2) | ||||
| Height : | 31 m | ||||
| Area : | 107.20 km² | ||||
| Residents : | 24,772 (October 20, 2011) | ||||
| Population density : | 231 inhabitants per km² | ||||
| Postal code : | 145200 | ||||
| Telephone code : | (+40) 02 47 | ||||
| License plate : | TR | ||||
| Structure and administration (as of 2016) | |||||
| Community type : | Municipality | ||||
| Mayor : | Dănuț Culcea ( PSD ) | ||||
| Postal address : | St. Republicii, no. 2 loc. Turnu Măgurele, jud. Teleorman, RO-145200 |
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Turnu Măgurele (old name Turnu ; German Großnikopel ) is a town in the Teleorman district in Romania .
location
Turnu Măgurele is located about 125 km southwest of Bucharest on the border with Bulgaria on the edge of Wallachia . Turnu Măgurele was built near the medieval port of Turnu . The city lies northeast of the confluence of the Olt and the Danube . On the opposite, Bulgarian south bank of the Danube lies Nikopol .
history
There are remains of a Roman bridge over the Danube, which Constantine the Great had built in 330. The city name means "mountain tower" and refers to the tower of a defensive wall of a fortress built by the Byzantine ruler Justinian I in the 6th century . Ruins of this are still there today.
Turnu was ruled by the Ottomans from 1417 to 1829 , at the opposite Nikopol the Turks defeated a Hungarian-French-Romanian crusader army in 1396 and conquered the areas south of the Danube.
The river Olt was until the 14th century and again in the 18th century the border between the Little Wallachia and the Great Wallachia , Turnu an important border fortress.
Personalities
- Ion Țăranu (* 1938), wrestler
- Gabriela Silvia Beju (* 1947), sculptor, born here, lives in Paris
- Vali Ionescu-Constantin (* 1960), track and field athlete
- Valentin Bădoi (* 1975), football player
- Vasile Dárnea (* 1975), violinist
Population development
The table shows the development of the population of Turnu Măgurele since the beginning of the 20th century.
| year | population | Data Source |
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| 1900 | 8668 | k. A. |
| 1977 | 32,341 | official census |
| 1992 | 36,966 | official census |
| 2002 | 30,089 | official census |
| 2006 | 28,297 | calculation |
| 2011 | 24,772 | official census |
See also
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ 2011 census in Romania at citypopulation.de
- ↑ Beju, Gabriela-Silvia at oxfordindex.oup.com (English)
- ↑ Vasile Dárnea at hahn-engel.de
