Mănești is a commune in

Dâmbovița County Dâmbovița County (; also spelt Dîmbovița) is a county () of Romania, in Muntenia, with the capital city at Târgoviște, the most important economic, political, administrative and cultural center of the county. It is a traditional administra ...

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, in the valley of the

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, at a distance of northwest of

Târgoviște Târgoviște (, alternatively spelled ''Tîrgoviște'') is a Municipiu, city and county seat in Dâmbovița County, Romania. It is situated north-west of Bucharest, on the right bank of the Ialomița (river), Ialomița River. Târgoviște was ...

Administration

It was formerly part of ''plasa'' Voinești and between 1952 and 1968 it was part of . In 1968, the current administration was set and since, it is part of Dâmbovița County. It is composed of three villages: Drăgăești-Pământeni (colloquially "Drăgăești"), Drăgăești-Ungureni (colloquially "Ungureni"), and Mănești. Mănești and Drăgăești are on the right bank of the Dâmbovița River, while Ungureni is on the left bank.

Name

The name of Mănești is derived from "Manea" (a Romanian first name), the name of Drăgăești from "Drag" (meaning "dear" in Romanian) and the name of Ungureni from "Ungurean" (people from the Hungarian lands, that is,

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), as Romanians from Transylvania, then ruled by

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, settled in this place.

Population

At the 2002 census, Mănești had 4,669 inhabitants, of which 96.6% were of

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ethnicity; 3.4% were

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, concentrated in the village of Drăgăești. At the 2021 census, the commune had a population of 5,361; of those, 87.13% were Romanians and 5.89% Roma.

Economy

Most people are farmers, among the crops are

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s and

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s, as well as

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and

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. A part of the inhabitants commute to

, which is the closest city. Also, there used to be some petroleum extraction in the region, but the resources ended. In Ungureni, there was also a petroleum storage depot, but it was disbanded in the 1990s.

Nearby localities

* Căprioru (North-West) * Decindeni (South-West) * Dragomirești (South) * Gheboieni (North-East) *

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(South-East) *

Tătărani Tătărani is a commune in Dâmbovița County, Muntenia, Romania with a population of 5,228 people as of 2021. It is composed of four villages: Căprioru, Gheboieni, Priboiu, and Tătărani. The commune is situated in a hilly area between the Wa ...

(North-West)

References

External links

Anuarul "Socec" al României-Mari, ediția 1925
Communes in Dâmbovița County Localities in Muntenia {{Dâmboviţa-geo-stub