Ion Roată is a
commune in
Ialomița County,
Muntenia
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,
Romania. It is composed of two villages, Broșteni and Ion Roată.
At the 2011 census, of the inhabitants for whom data were available, 87.4% were
Romanians and 12.5%
Roma
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[Populația stabilă după etnie - județe, municipii, orașe, comune]
, National Institute of Statistics; accessed August 20, 2015 99.9% of inhabitants were
Romanian Orthodox.
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The commune stretches for some along the
Ialomița River valley; Ion Roată village is to the east and Broșteni to the west. It lies in the center of the
Bărăgan Plain
The Bărăgan Plain ( ro, Câmpia Bărăganului ) is a steppe plain in south-eastern Romania. It makes up much of the eastern part of the Wallachian Plain. The region is known for its black soil and a rich humus, and is mostly a cereal-growing are ...
, and the terrain is largely flat and arid. About 86.5% of the surface area is arable land, 6.5% forests, 3% waters, 2% buildings, 1.5% roads and 0.5% unproductive terrain.
Valea Măcrișului is to the north; to the south, the river forms the border with
Axintele
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;
Sfântu Gheorghe
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is to the east and
Alexeni
Alexeni is a commune in Ialomița County, Muntenia, Romania, some 65 km north-east of Bucharest, near the town of Urziceni. It is composed of a single village, Alexeni.
Until 2001 a Romanian Air Force military helicopters unit was located a ...
to the west. There is a
Căile Ferate Române rail station in the commune center;
Urziceni is distant and the county seat
Slobozia .
[Prezentare locală]
at the Ion Roată Town Hall site
The oldest mention of part of the commune dates to 1582, when a Cioara village appears in a document of
Mihnea Turcitul
Mihnea II Turcitul ("Mihnea the Turned-Turk"; July 1564 – October 1601) was Prince (Voivode) of Wallachia between September 1577 and July 1583, and again from April 1585 to May 1591.
The only son of Alexandru II Mircea and Ecaterina Salvares ...
. As of 1778, the area belonged to the
Grindu ''
plasă''. Between 1864 and 1882, the commune passed through various administrative changes, but from the latter date until after World War I, its villages were Principesa Maria (named after
Princess Maria), Broștenii Noi, Slujitori and Malu. During the interwar period, they were Broștenii Vechi, Principesa Maria and Cioara (formerly Slujitori). In 1948, with the advent of the
communist regime, the villages were Ion Roată (formerly Principesa Maria), Broștenii Noi (earlier a commune), Broștenii Vechi and Cioara. By 1968, when a new administrative law was passed, Cioara had become Colinele; that village plus Broștenii Vechi was merged into Ion Roată, leaving the commune with its present two villages.
References
Communes in Ialomița County
Localities in Muntenia
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