Cernavodă

Cernavodă
Town

Coat of arms

Location of Cernavodă
Coordinates: 44°20′17″N 28°02′01″E / 44.33806°N 28.03361°E / 44.33806; 28.03361Coordinates: 44°20′17″N 28°02′01″E / 44.33806°N 28.03361°E / 44.33806; 28.03361
Country  Romania
County Constanța County
Status Town
Government
 • Mayor Liviu Negoiță[1] (National Liberal Party)
Area
 • Total 46.69 km2 (18.03 sq mi)
Population (2011[2])
 • Total Decrease16,129
Time zone UTC+2 (EET)
 • Summer (DST) UTC+3 (EEST)
Climate Cfa
Website http://www.primaria-cernavoda.ro/

Cernavodă (Romanian pronunciation: [t͡ʃernaˈvodə], historical names: Thracian: Axiopa, Greek: Axiopolis, Bulgarian: Черна вода, Cherna voda, Turkish: Boğazköy) is a town in Constanța County, Northern Dobruja, Romania with a population of 20,514.

The town's name is derived from the Bulgarian černa voda (черна вода in Cyrillic), meaning "black water". This name is regarded by some scholars as a calque of the earlier Thracian name Axíopa, from IE *n.ksei "dark" and upā "water" (cf. Avestan axšaēna "dark" and Lithuanian ùpė "river, creek").[3]

Economy

The town is a Danube fluvial port. It houses the Cernavodă Nuclear Power Plant, consisting of two CANDU reactors providing about 18% of Romania's electrical energy output. The second reactor was built through a joint venture between Canada's Atomic Energy of Canada Limited and Italy's ANSALDO and became fully functional in November 2007.

The Danube-Black Sea Canal, opened in 1984, runs from Cernavodă to Agigea and Năvodari.

The outskirts of Cernavodă host numerous vineyards, producers of Chardonnay wine. The largest winery in the area is Murfatlar.

History

Cernavodă was founded (under the name Axiopolis) by the ancient Greeks in the 4th century BC as a trading post for contacts with local Dacians.

The Constanța - Cernavodă railroad was opened in 1860 by the Ottoman administration.

The town gives its name to the late copper age Cernavodă archaeological culture, ca. 4000—3200 BC.

Demographics

Historical population
YearPop.±%
1912 5,743—    
1930 6,744+17.4%
1948 6,100−9.5%
1956 8,802+44.3%
1966 11,259+27.9%
1977 13,608+20.9%
1992 22,043+62.0%
2002 20,514−6.9%
2011 16,129−21.4%
Source: Census data

At the 2011 census, Cernavodă had 14969 Romanians (92.81%), 463 Turks (2.87%), 374 Roma (2.32%), 106 Lipovans (0.66%), 40 Tatars (0.25%), 15 Hungarians (0.09%) and 162 others.

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Luptă strânsă pentru Consiliul Judeţean Constanţa între PSD şi PNL. Noua garnitură de primari" (in Romanian). Ziua de Constanța. 7 June 2016. Retrieved 7 June 2016.
  2. ↑ "Constanța County at the 2011 census" (PDF) (in Romanian). INSSE. February 2, 2012. Archived from the original (PDF) on March 24, 2012. Retrieved March 8, 2012.
  3. ↑ Radoslav Katičić; Mate Križman (1976). Ancient Languages of the Balkans, Part One. Mouton. p. 149.
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