Murighiol (''Independența'' from 1983 to 1996) is a commune in

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 Co ...

, Northern Dobruja,

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. It is composed of seven villаges: * Murighiol * Plopul (formerly Beibudzac) * Colina (russian: Калина) * Dunavățu de Jos (russian: Долни Дунавец) * Dunavățu de Sus (russian: Горни Дунавец) * Sarinasuf * Uzlina At the 2011 census, 94.6% of the inhabitants were Romanians, 4.5% Ukrainians and 0.4% Turks. The commune's name is of Turkish origin: ''moru'' ("violet") and ''göl'' ("lake") compounded to mean "violet lake".''Limba română'', p.264. Institutul de Lingvistică din București, 1978 The archaeological site of

Halmyris Halmyris ( grc, Ἁλμυρίς) was a Roman and Byzantine fort, settlement and naval port, located 2.5 kilometers west of the village of Murighiol at the mouth of the Danube Delta in Romania. It is locally known as the site where the bodies of ...

is located near the village of Murighiol. Halmyris was a

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legionary fort from the 1st–4th centuries CE. It is currently under excavation.

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