Cernavodă

Cernavodă
Town
Cernavodă and the Danube-Black Sea Canal
Coat of arms
Location in Constanța County
Cernavodă Location in Romania
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
Government
• Mayor (2020–2024)	Liviu Negoiță[1] (PNL)
Area	46.69 km2 (18.03 sq mi)
Elevation	50 m (160 ft)
Population  (2011)[2]	17,022
• Density	360/km2 (940/sq mi)
Time zone	EET/EEST (UTC+2/+3)
Postal code	905200
Vehicle reg.	CT
Website	www.primaria-cernavoda.ro

Cernavodă (Romanian pronunciation: [t͡ʃernaˈvodə], historical names: Thracian: Axiopa, Greek: Ἀξιούπολις, 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 .

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.^{[citation needed]}

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

Cernavodă was one of the capitals of the short-lived Silistra Nouă County (1878–1879).

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

Demographics[]

At the 2011 census, Cernavodă had 14,969 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.

Notable people born in Cernavodă include Alexandru Claudian (1898–1962) and Iosipos Moisiodax (1725–1800).

See also[]

• Cernavodă Nuclear Power Plant
• Anghel Saligny Bridge

References[]

External links[]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Cernavodă.

• Official site of the City of Cernavodă