Constanţa

See also: Constanza

Constanţa (or Constanza ) is a port city of Romania located at the edge of the Black Sea and the chief town of the Judeţ de Constanţa and the area of Dobrogea.

It is the first town of Europe to have had the electricity and the largest port of the Black Sea with more than 70% of the traffic of the Black Sea in the inter-war period.

Its current name was given by Constantin 1st to the place of the older name, Tomis, just as for Constantinople, port with the Marmara Sea.

Constanţa has a population of 348.000 inhabitants in 2002.

History

  • Prehistory: The city is founded by the Daces under an unknown name, but one found traces former to Daces.
  • O C: After the colonization of the Euxin Bridge, the Greeks change his name with and the city is called Tomis . To the III E, its development reaches its apogee. Ovide, celebrates it Latin poet, was exiled there in 8 a. J. - C. and died there in 17. Meanwhile the Scythes came, making city a mixture of Scythians, Daces and Greeks. The area names " Scythia Minor".
  • 311 - when the Emperor of origin dace Galère issues the freedom of religion for the first time into 311, the city is high with the row of metropolis, with it all alone with at least 14 episcopates.
  • 4th century: The city still changes name for Constantiana, given by Constantin I {{er}} (274 - 337) in the honor of his/her Constantia sister.
  • 4th - 11th century: Between 4th and the 11th century, all the area was the target of invaders Goths, Huns, Slaves, Avars (Bulgarian) and others like all the other areas of the Romania, Hungary, Bulgaria and Serbia nowadays. It passes later under Bulgarian influence.
  • 1325 - 1389: The area is independent.
  • 1389 - 1418: It belongs to the Rumanian Pays of the time.
  • 1418 - 18th century: At the time of the conquest by the Turks at the 15th century the city (then called Köstence or Köstendje) knew a major decline and not counting more, according to the Turks, but 2.000 inhabitants.
  • 18th century - 1812: the area becomes battle field between the Russia and the Ottoman Empire.
  • 1812 - 1878: the situation is critical; Russia annexes the Bessarabia and the Ottoman Empire in common has a border with Russia.
  • In 1878, during the creation of Romania, it again could develop, to become again an industrial and commercial center and one of the largest seaport of Europe.

Famous people born in Constanţa

Universities

  • University Maritime Ovidius

  • University of Constanţa (UMC)

Economy

Constanţa has an international airport ( Mihail Kogălniceanu International Airport , code AITA: NDT).

Twinnings

Constanţa is twinned with:

External bonds

  • Town hall of Constanţa (in Rumanian)

Simple: Constanţa

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