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Ostrov | |
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 Coat of arms | |
 Location in Constanța County | |
  Ostrov Location in Romania | |
| Coordinates: 44°6′33″N 27°21′50″E / 44.10917°N 27.36389°E | |
| Country | Romania |
| County | Constanța |
| Subdivisions | Ostrov, Almălău, Bugeac, Esechioi, Galița, Gârlița |
| Government | |
| • Mayor (2020–2024) | Niculae Dragomir[1] (PSD) |
Area | 171.30 km2 (66.14 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 28 m (92 ft) |
| Population (2021-12-01)[2] | 4,586 |
| • Density | 26.77/km2 (69.34/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+02:00 (EET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+03:00 (EEST) |
| Postal code | 907220 |
| Area code | +(40) 241 |
| Vehicle reg. | CT |
| Website | www |
Ostrov (Romanian pronunciation: [osˈtrov]) is a commune in Constanța County, Northern Dobruja, Romania. The locality was a town until 1950.
Name
[edit]The name Ostrov is a word of Bulgarian origin and it means "island".[3] The village itself is not located on an island, but rather on the banks of the Danube.
Villages
[edit]The commune includes six villages:
Geography
[edit]Ostrov is close to the Bulgarian border, with a border crossing linking it to the Bulgarian city of Silistra. Lake Bugeac is located within the territory of the commune, in a calcareous depression near the Danube, the water exchange with the latter being regulated by a weir. The river Almălău passes through Lake Bugeac and flows into the Danube near Galița; its right tributary, the river Ceair, discharges into the lake in Gârlița.
Demographics
[edit]| Year | Pop. | ±% |
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| 2002 | 5,599 | — |
| 2011 | 5,069 | −9.5% |
| 2021 | 4,586 | −9.5% |
| Source: Census data | ||
At the 2011 census, Ostrov had 5,069 inhabitants, of which 4,730 were Romanians (95.54%), 187 Roma (3.78%), 30 Turks (0.61%), and 4 others (0.08%).[4] At the 2021 census, the commune had a population of 4,586; of those, 94.74% were Romanians.[5]
Natives
[edit]- Traian Cocorăscu (1888–1970), brigadier-general during World War II
- Ionuț Țenea (born 1996), footballer
Păcuiul lui Soare
[edit]Păcuiul lui Soare is the name of a fortress on an island close to Ostrov. The ruins from the beginning of 8th century belong to the "Glorious Palace" of the First Bulgarian Khans on Danube and main base of the Bulgarian Danube fleet, as researchers suppose.[6] They found many Protobulgarian marks graved in the blocks of the stone masonry of fortress that build pretty similar to the imperial capital Pliska.[7] The stone graving text from the "Holy 40 martyrs column" found in Tarnovo indicate that the Great Khan Omurtag (?-831) built, maybe over Byzantine ruins, the medieval port and palace complex.[8]
References
[edit]- ↑ "Results of the 2020 local elections". Central Electoral Bureau. Retrieved 15 June 2021.
- ↑ "2021 Romanian census". National Institute of Statistics. 1 December 2021.
- ↑ World loanwords vocabulary - ostrov, a word from Romanian, status: clearly borrowed from Slavic.[link removed]
- ↑ "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.
- ↑ "Populația rezidentă după grupa de vârstă, pe județe și municipii, orașe, comune, la 1 decembrie 2021" (in Romanian). INSSE. 31 May 2023.
- ↑ Juhas, Petar. Turko-Bulgarians and Magyars.
- ↑ Vaklinov, Stancho (1981). Proto-Bulgarian Epigraphic Monuments. Publishing House of the Fatherland Front Sofia.
- ↑ Beshevliev, Vesselin (1977). Formation of the Old-Bulgarian Culture. Naouka i Izkoustvo Publishing House Sofia.
External links
[edit]- (in Romanian) Ostrov at the Constanța County Council website
Plan of the Bulgarian fortress
Remains of the gate to the fortress
Artefact from Păcuiul Lui Soare
Galița village, 1933
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