Cobadin is a

commune A commune is an alternative term for an intentional community. Commune or comună or comune or other derivations may also refer to: Administrative-territorial entities * Commune (administrative division), a municipality or township ** Communes of ...

Constanța County Constanța () is a county (județ) of Romania on the border with Bulgaria, in the Dobruja region. Its capital city is also named Constanța. Demographics In 2011, it had a population of 684,082 and the population density was 96/km2. The degr ...

, Northern Dobruja,

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. The commune includes five villages: *Cobadin (historical names: ''Cobadinu'', tr, Kobadin) *Viișoara (historical name: ''Caciamac'', tr, Kaçamak) *Negrești (historical name: ''Carabacâ'', tr, Karabağ') *Conacu (historical name: ''Beșaul'') *Curcani (historical name: ''Chertic-Punar'', tr, Kertikpınar) - disestablished by Presidential Decree before 1990, the village is nevertheless listed in the official settlements register The territory of the commune also includes the former village of ''Frasinu'' (historical name: ''Terzi-Veli''), at , nominally merged with Curcani by the 1968 administrative reform. Two battles were fought on the territory of the commune and in the surrounding area during

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First Battle of Cobadin The First Battle of Cobadin, also known as the First Battle of the Rasova–Cobadin–Tuzla Line, was a battle fought from 17 to 19 of September 1916 between the Bulgarian Third Army and the Romanian–Russian Army of the Dobruja. The battle end ...

(September 17–19, 1916), and the

Second Battle of Cobadin The Second Battle of Cobadin was a battle fought from 19 to 25 October 1916 between the Central Powers, chiefly the Bulgarian Third Army, and the Entente, represented by the Russo–Romanian Dobruja Army. The battle ended in a decisive victor ...

(October 19–25, 1916).

Population

As of 2011, the population of the commune was 8,346, out of which: * 6,480 (77.44%)

Romanians The Romanians ( ro, români, ; dated exonym '' Vlachs'') are a Romance-speaking ethnic group. Sharing a common Romanian culture and ancestry, and speaking the Romanian language, they live primarily in Romania and Moldova. The 2011 Roman ...

* 1,021 (12.23%)

Turks Turk or Turks may refer to: Communities and ethnic groups * Turkic peoples, a collection of ethnic groups who speak Turkic languages * Turkish people, or the Turks, a Turkic ethnic group and nation * Turkish citizen, a citizen of the Republic ...

* 442 (5.29%)

Tatars The Tatars ()Tatar
in the Collins English Dictionary is an umbrella term for different

* 359 (4.30%)

Romani Romani may refer to: Ethnicities * Romani people, an ethnic group of Northern Indian origin, living dispersed in Europe, the Americas and Asia ** Romani genocide, under Nazi rule * Romani language, any of several Indo-Aryan languages of the Roma ...

* 7 (0.08%)

Aromanians The Aromanians ( rup, Armãnji, Rrãmãnji) are an ethnic group native to the southern Balkans who speak Aromanian, an Eastern Romance language. They traditionally live in central and southern Albania, south-western Bulgaria, northern and ...

* 37 others

Famous natives

* Pericle Martinescu, writer and journalist

References

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