Villages
The commune includes four villages:
- Limanu (historical names: Caracicula, Greek
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: Limani (Port), )
- 2 Mai
- Hagieni (historical names: Hagilar, )
- Vama Veche (historical names: Ilanlâc, )
2 Mai
2 Mai is a village in the Limanu commune and a small resort on the shore of the
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, between
MangaliaMangalia is a city and a port on the Romanian coast of the Black Sea in the south-east of Constanţa County.The following resorts are administered by the Mangalia municipality:* Cap Aurora* Jupiter...
and
Vama VecheVama Veche is a village in Romania on the Black Sea coast, near the border with Bulgaria, at 28.3 E longitude, 43.5 N latitude. It is part of the commune of Limanu and in 2002, it had a population of 178....
.
The village was founded by
Mihail KogălniceanuMihail Kogălniceanu was a Moldavian-born Romanian liberal statesman, lawyer, historian and publicist; he became Prime Minister of Romania October 11, 1863, after the union of the Danubian Principalities under Domnitor Alexander John Cuza, and later served as Foreign Minister under Carol I...
in 1887 under the name
Două Mai. Its first inhabitants were
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from
BucharestBucharest is the capital city, industrial and financial centre of Romania. It is the largest city in Romania, located in the southeast of the country, at , and lies on the banks of the Dâmboviţa River....
,
IaşiIaşi , is a city and municipality in Moldavia, in north-eastern Romania...
and
GalaţiGalaţi is a city in Moldavia, eastern Romania, the capital city of Galaţi County on the banks of the Danube, very close to Brăila forming with it the Cantemir metropolitan area...
. Later
LipovansLipovans or Lippovans are the Old Believers, mostly of Russian ethnic origin, who settled in Moldavia, in the Danube Delta, in Tulcea county, in the Dobrogea region of eastern Romania, and in the southwestern part of Odessa Oblast , in Chernivtsi Oblast in Ukraine, as well as in two villages in...
from
Tulcea CountyTulcea is a county of Romania, in the historical region Dobruja, with the capital city at Tulcea.-Demographics:In 2002, Tulcea County had a population of 256,492...
and
RomaniansThe Romanians are a nation and ethnic group native to Romania, who speak Romanian ; they are the majority inhabitants of România.In one prominent interpretation of the census results in Moldova, Moldovans are counted as Romanians, which would...
from
Argeş CountyArgeş is a county of Romania, in Wallachia, with the capital city at Piteşti.-Demographics:In 2002, it had a population of 652,625 and the population density was 95/km².*Romanians - 96%*Roma , and other.-Geography:...
settled here.
The main occupation of the villagers is the
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,
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, tourism and agriculture.
Vama Veche
Vama Veche is a village in the Limanu commune, at . In 2002, it had a population of 178.
It was founded in 1811 by a few
GagauzThe Gagauz people are a small Turkic ethnic group living mostly in southern Moldova , southwestern Ukraine and north-eastern Bulgaria . Unlike most other Turkic peoples, the Gagauz are predominantly Orthodox Christians...
families, originally being named "Ilanlîk". Its current name literally means "Old customs point", named so after the
CadrilaterSouthern Dobruja is an area of north-eastern Bulgaria comprising the administrative districts named for its two principal cities of Dobrich and Silistra...
had been included in
RomaniaRomania is a country located in Southeastern and Central Europe, North of the Balkan Peninsula, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian arch, bordering on the Black Sea. Almost all of the Danube Delta is located within its territory...
in 1913. In 1940, however, that region was ceded to Bulgaria, and the village lay once again near the border.
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