Țăndărei () is a town in
Ialomița County,
Muntenia
Muntenia (, also known in English as Greater Wallachia) is a historical region of Romania, part of Wallachia (also, sometimes considered Wallachia proper, as ''Muntenia'', ''Țara Românească'', and the rarely used ''Valahia'' are synonyms in Ro ...
,
Romania
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, with a population of 12,761 as of 2021. The town is located on the
Bărăgan Plain, on the left bank of the
Ialomița River. It was declared a town in 1968. It is crossed by the national road , which connects
Slobozia with
Constanța
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.
Țăndărei has been called a "Beverley Hills for
Gypsy gangsters".
The town gained this reputation as many ethnic
Roma engaged in criminal activity as well as
welfare fraud in the UK, using the money obtained from those activities to build opulent villas.
During the
COVID-19 pandemic
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, the town was also in the spotlight of national media and of social media, because the ethnic Roma of the town were accused of bringing the virus from Western Europe and not respecting the anti-COVID measurements implemented by the government.
Demographics
At the
2021 census, Țăndărei had a population of 12,761. At the
2011 census, 65.47% of the population declared themselves as ethnic
Romanian and 10.85% as
Roma (23.55% did not declare any ethnicity and 0.11% declared another ethnicity).
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Natives
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Aurelian Chițu (born 1991), footballer
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Paul Georgescu (1923 – 1989), literary critic, journalist, fiction writer, and communist political figure
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Grigore H. Grandea (1843 – 1897), journalist, poet, and prose writer
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Alexandru Lăpușan (1955 – 2016), politician
References
Towns in Romania
Populated places in Ialomița County
Localities in Muntenia
Romani communities in Romania
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