Dobroești is a commune in the east of

Ilfov County Ilfov () is the county that surrounds Bucharest, the capital of Romania. It used to be largely rural, but, after the fall of Communism, many of the county's villages and communes developed into high-income commuter towns, which act like suburbs ...

Muntenia Muntenia (, also known in English as Greater Wallachia) is a historical region of Romania, part of Wallachia (also, sometimes considered Wallachia proper, as ''Muntenia'', ''Țara Românească'', and the seldom used ''Valahia'' are synonyms in R ...

Romania Romania ( ; ro, România ) is a country located at the crossroads of Central Europe, Central, Eastern Europe, Eastern, and Southeast Europe, Southeastern Europe. It borders Bulgaria to the south, Ukraine to the north, Hungary to the west, S ...

, right off the limits of

Bucharest Bucharest ( , ; ro, București ) is the capital and largest city of Romania, as well as its cultural, industrial, and financial centre. It is located in the southeast of the country, on the banks of the Dâmbovița River, less than north of ...

Sector 2 Sector 2 ( ro, Sectorul 2) is an administrative unit of Bucharest. Demographics Sector 2 is the city's most multicultural sector. In particular, it contains Romania's largest community of Chinese people, who mainly live in the districts of C ...

. It is composed of two villages, Dobroești and Fundeni. The name ''Dobroești'' is derived from South Slavic/Bulgarian "Dobro" (good) and Romanian suffix

-ești The suffix ''-ești'' (pronounced , sometimes changed to ''-ăști'' ) is widespread in Romanian placenames. It is the plural of the possessive suffix '' -escu'', formerly used for patronyms and currently widespread in family names. Obsolete spell ...

. A modern shopping and apartment complex, for

overseas Chinese Overseas Chinese () refers to people of Chinese birth or ethnicity who reside outside Mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan. As of 2011, there were over 40.3 million overseas Chinese. Terminology () or ''Hoan-kheh'' () in Hokkien, refe ...

, have been built in Dobroești, dubbed as

Chinatown A Chinatown () is an ethnic enclave of Chinese people located outside Greater China, most often in an urban setting. Areas known as "Chinatown" exist throughout the world, including Europe, North America, South America, Asia, Africa and Austra ...

.Chinatown de Dobroești

Cotidianul image:Cotidianul.png, The logo used between 2003 and 2007 ''Cotidianul'' (meaning ''The Daily'' in English) is a Romanian language newspaper published in Bucharest, Romania. History and profile Founded by Ion Raţiu, ''Cotidianul'' was first ...

, 23 February 2006.

Natives

Aurel Beldeanu Aurel "Aurică" Beldeanu (born 5 March 1951), is a Romanian former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. Born in Dobroești, Ilfov County Beldeanu started his football career at Progresul București and played almost 100 matches ...

References

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