Ovidiu (, historical name: ''Canara'', tr, Kanara) is a town situated a few kilometres north of Constanța in

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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. Ovidiu is quite small, with a population of around 12,000, and many wealthy inhabitants of Constanța retire there. It officially became a town in 1989, as a result of the

Romanian rural systematization program The Romanian rural systematization program was a social engineering program undertaken by Nicolae Ceaușescu's Romania primarily at the end of the 1980s. The legal framework for this program was established as early as 1974, but it only began in ...

. In 1930, the town was renamed ''Ovidiu'' after the

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poet

Ovid Pūblius Ovidius Nāsō (; 20 March 43 BC – 17/18 AD), known in English as Ovid ( ), was a Roman poet who lived during the reign of Augustus. He was a contemporary of the older Virgil and Horace, with whom he is often ranked as one of the th ...

( lat, Ovidius). He was supposedly buried on a nearby small island (also called ''Ovidiu'') in the

Siutghiol Lake Siutghiol () is a lagoon on the shores of the Black Sea, in Constanța County, Northern Dobruja, Romania. It has a length of and a width of ; it extends over and has a maximum depth of . Ovidiu Island is a small island on the west side of the ...

Administration

The town of Ovidiu administers the villages of Poiana (historical names: ''Cocoșul'' - until 1964, tr, Horozlar - until 1926) and Culmea. The latter was established in 2011 by legally separating from Ovidiu two territorially distinct communities, Social Group Culmea and Social Group Nazarcea.

Sport

The stadium of

FC Viitorul Constanța Fotbal Club Viitorul Constanța (), commonly known as Viitorul Constanța or simply Viitorul, was a Romanian professional football club based in Ovidiu, Constanța County. They last played their home matches in blue and black kits at the Stadion ...

is located in Ovidiu.

Demographics

At the 2011 census, Ovidiu had 11,240 Romanians (91.07%), 3

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(0.02%), 229 Roma (1.86%), 3 Germans (0.02%), 358

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(2.90%), 396

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in the Collins English Dictionary is an umbrella term for different

(3.21%), 8

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(0.06%), 36

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 ...

(0.29%), 69 others (0.56%).

Natives

Marius Leca Marius Sebastian Leca (born 6 July 2000) is a Romanian professional footballer who plays as a defender for CS Afumați. Honours ;Viitorul Constanța *Romanian Cup: 2018–19 *Romanian Supercup: 2019 File:2019 collage v1.png, From top left, ...

Gallery

File:Insula ovidiu.jpg, The ''Ovidiu'' island in the

References

Towns in Romania Populated places in Constanța County Localities in Northern Dobruja Aromanian settlements in Romania {{Constanţa-geo-stub