Ceamurlia de Jos (meaning "Lower Ceamurlia") is a commune in the southeast of

Tulcea County Tulcea County () is a county ( județ) of Romania, in the historical region Dobruja, with the capital city at Tulcea. It includes in its northeast corner the large and thinly-populated estuary of the Danube. Demographics In 2011, Tulcea Cou ...

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. It has a total population of 2,620 and it has an area of 119,43 km². The Golovița Lake is located south of this commune. Its name is derived from Turkish ''Çamurlu'', meaning "muddy". A part of the inhabitants of this commune are

Aromanians The Aromanians ( rup, Armãnji, Rrãmãnji) are an Ethnic groups in Europe, ethnic group native to the southern Balkans who speak Aromanian language, Aromanian, an Eastern Romance language. They traditionally live in central and southern Alba ...

that were deported from

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, where they settled from the Southern Balkans during the Romanian rule of the region, after it was ceded back to

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in 1940 according to the terms of the Treaty of Craiova. Ceamurlia de Jos commune is composed of two villages: * Ceamurlia de Jos, with a population of 1,258 and an area of 1,69 km² * Lunca, with a population of 1,362 and an area of 1,66 km², located 4 km east of the Ceamurlia de Jos village. Ceamurlia de Jos was the place where the H5N1 strain of the avian influenza was found for the first time in Europe, being brought by migrating birds from Asia that passed through the nearby

Danube Delta The Danube Delta ( ro, Delta Dunării, ; uk, Дельта Дунаю, Deľta Dunaju, ) is the second largest river delta in Europe, after the Volga Delta, and is the best preserved on the continent. The greater part of the Danube Delta lies in Ro ...

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* Communes in Tulcea County Localities in Northern Dobruja Place names of Turkish origin in Romania {{Tulcea-geo-stub