Vama Veche

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Vama Veche

Vama Veche (historical names: Ilanlâk, Ilanlâc, ) is a village in Romania

Romania

Black Sea

The Black Sea is an inland sea sea bounded by southeastern Europe, the Caucasus and the Anatolia and is ultimately connected to the Atlantic Ocean via the Mediterranean Sea and Aegean Seas and various straits....
coast, near the border with Bulgaria

Bulgaria

The state of Bulgaria , Scientific transliteration Balgarija, officially the Republic of Bulgaria has played a significant role in the Balkans in south-eastern Europe for over fourteen centuries....
, at 28.3 E longitude

Longitude

Longitude , symbolized by the Greek character lambda , is the geographic coordinate most commonly used in cartography and global navigation for east-west measurement....
, 43.5 N latitude

Latitude

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Vama Veche (historical names: Ilanlâk, Ilanlâc, ) is a village in Romania

Romania

Black Sea

Bulgaria

Longitude

Longitude , symbolized by the Greek character lambda , is the geographic coordinate most commonly used in cartography and global navigation for east-west measurement....
, 43.5 N latitude

Latitude

Limanu

Limanu is a Commune in Romania in Constanta County, Romania....
and in 2002, it had a population of 178.

It was founded in 1811 by a few Gagauz

Gagauz people

The Gagauz people are Turkic people of southern Moldova , southwestern Ukraine and north-eastern Bulgaria that number around 250,000. Unlike most other Turkic-speaking peoples, the Gagauz have long been predominantly Orthodox Christians....
families, originally being named "Ilanlîk". Its current name literally means "Old customs point", named so after the Cadrilater

Southern Dobruja

Southern 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 Romania

Romania

Romania is a country located in Southeastern Europe Central Europe, North of the Balkan Peninsula, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian Mountains, bordering on the Black Sea....
in 1913. In 1940, however, that region was ceded to Bulgaria, and the village lay once again near the border.

Even in Communist Romania

Communist Romania

Communist Romania refers to the period in Romanian history when that country was a dictatorship led by the Romanian Communist Party, the sole legal party....
, Vama Veche had the reputation of a non-mainstream tourist

Tourism

Tourism is travel for recreational or leisure purposes. The World Tourism Organization defines tourists as people who "travel to and stay in places outside their usual environment for not more than one consecutive year for leisure, business and other purposes not related to the exercise of an activity remunerated from...
destination, which has only grown since the Romanian Revolution of 1989

Romanian Revolution of 1989

The Romanian Revolution of 1989 was a week-long series of increasingly violent riots and fighting in late December 1989 that overthrew the Government of Nicolae Ceausescu....
. During the communist era, concern for border patrol sight lines spared Vama Veche the development that occurred in other Romanian Black Sea resorts. It became a hangout for intellectuals; for reasons that are not exactly clear, the generally repressive regime of Nicolae Ceausescu

Nicolae Ceausescu

Nicolae Ceausescu was the Secretary General of the Romanian Workers' Party, later the Romanian Communist Party from 1965 until 1989, President of the Council of State from 1967 and President of Romania from 1974 until 1989....
chose to tolerate this countercultural

Counterculture

Counterculture is a Sociology term used to describe the values and norms of behavior of a cultural group, or subculture, that run counter to those of the social mainstream of the day, the cultural equivalent of political opposition....
oasis, as long as people had their identity papers with them. Accommodations consisted of tents or rooms rented from peasants or fishermen. While camping is theoretically not permitted, to this day, many visitors or semi-permanent residents still stay in tents on the beach.

Famous for its nude beach

Nude beach

File:Bundesarchiv Bild 183-1984-0828-411A, Wismarer Bucht, FKK-Strand.jpgA nude beach is a beach where users are legally at liberty to be nudity....
, since the late 1990s Vama Veche has experienced development and gentrification, which has led to a "Save Vama Veche" campaign that is lobbying for the area's environmental conservation and a halt to development and mass tourism. A major part of the Save Vama Veche campaign is the 2003 founding of the Stufstock

Stufstock

Stufstock is a rock music festival that has taken place each year since 2003 in Vama Veche, Dobrogea, Romania, to protest against what some people may consider bad quality music , and to call for the preservation of Vama Veche from the large scale development that has overtaken much of Romania's Black Sea coast....
music festival, which was initiated by the satirical weekly Academia Catavencu
Academia Catavencu

'Academia Catavencu' is a Romanian satirical magazine founded in 1991, and made famous by its investigative journalism. Academia Catavencu also owns Radio Guerilla, an FM radio station broadcasting in Bucharest, Constanta, Cluj-Napoca and Iasi; Tabu, a women's magazine, Superbebe, a magazine for new parents, Aventuri la p...
and other organizations. The August 2003 festival drew a crowd of about 10,000. The 2005 Stufstock drew a record 40,000-large crowd, formed by rockers

Rock music

Rock music is a loosely defined genre of popular music that entered the mainstream in the mid 1950's. It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rhythm and blues, country music and other influences....
, bohemians

Bohemianism

The term bohemian, of French origin, was first used in the English language in the nineteenth century to describe the untraditional lifestyles of marginalized and impoverished artists, writers, musicians, and actors in major European cities....
, punk

Punk subculture

The punk subculture is based around punk rock. It emerged from the larger rock music scene in the mid-to-late-1970s in the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada, Australia, and Japan....
ers and goth

Goth subculture

The goth subculture is a contemporary subculture found in many countries. It began in the United Kingdom during the early 1980s in the gothic rock scene, an offshoot of the post-punk genre....
s. Many argue that it has become too popular. In 2004, allegedly as a result of the campaign, legislation was enacted, limiting construction of new housing and roads or paving of existing roads. As of 2006, this seems to be enforced, with no visible new permanent structures being built within the preceding year.

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