Bucșani is a commune located in

Giurgiu County Giurgiu () is a county ('' județ'') of Romania on the border with Bulgaria, in Muntenia, with the capital city at Giurgiu. Demographics In 2011, it had a population of 265,494 and the population density was . * Romanians – 96% * Romani ...

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 Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central Europe, Central, Eastern Europe, Eastern and Southeast Europe. It borders Ukraine to the north and east, Hungary to the west, Serbia to the southwest, Bulgaria to the south, Moldova to ...

. It is composed of seven villages: Anghelești, Bucșani, Goleasca, Obedeni, Podișor, Uiești, and Vadu Lat.

Geography

The commune is situated in the

Wallachian Plain The Romanian Plain () is located in southern Romania and the easternmost tip of Serbia, where it is known as the Wallachian Plain (). It is part of the larger Eurasian Steppe. It is located in the historical region of Wallachia, and bordered by ...

, at an altitude of , on the banks of the rivers

Dâmbovnic The Dâmbovnic is a right tributary of the river Neajlov in Romania. It discharges into the Neajlov in Obedeni. Its length is and its basin size is . Geography The river flows through four different counties: Argeș, Dâmbovița, Teleorman and ...

and

Ilfovăț The Ilfovăț is a left tributary of the river Neajlov in Romania. Its length is and its basin size is . It discharges into the Neajlov in Iepurești. References

Rivers of Romania Rivers of Giurgiu County {{Giurgiu-river-stub ...

. It is located in the northern part of Giurgiu County, north of the county seat,

Giurgiu Giurgiu (; ; ) is a city in southern Romania. The seat of Giurgiu County, it lies in the historical region of Muntenia. It is situated amongst mud-flats and marshes on the left bank of the Danube facing the Bulgarian city of Ruse on the op ...

, on the border with

Teleorman County Teleorman County () is a county ( județ) of Romania on the border with Bulgaria, in the historical region Muntenia, with its capital city at Alexandria. The name ''Teleorman'' is of Cumanic ( Turkic) origin. It literally means ''wild/crazy for ...

. The city of

Bucharest Bucharest ( , ; ) is the capital and largest city of Romania. The metropolis stands on the River Dâmbovița (river), Dâmbovița in south-eastern Romania. Its population is officially estimated at 1.76 million residents within a greater Buc ...

is to the southeast, while

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 ...

is to the northwest and

Ploiești Ploiești ( , , ), formerly spelled Ploești, is a Municipiu, city and county seat in Prahova County, Romania. Part of the historical region of Muntenia, it is located north of Bucharest. The area of Ploiești is around , and it borders the Ble ...

is to the east. The Vadu Lat and Anghelești train stations serve the CFR Main Line 900, which connects Bucharest with the western city of

Timișoara Timișoara (, , ; , also or ; ; ; see #Etymology, other names) is the capital city of Timiș County, Banat, and the main economic, social and cultural center in Western Romania. Located on the Bega (Tisza), Bega River, Timișoara is consider ...

Economy

The

Bucșani Solar Park Bucșani Solar Park is a large thin-film photovoltaic (PV) power system, built on a plot of land located in Bucșani in Romania. The solar park has around 41,624 state-of-the-art thin film PV panels for a total nameplate capacity of 10-megawatt ...

is a large thin-film

photovoltaic Photovoltaics (PV) is the conversion of light into electricity using semiconducting materials that exhibit the photovoltaic effect, a phenomenon studied in physics, photochemistry, and electrochemistry. The photovoltaic effect is commercially ...

power system, built on a plot of land in the commune. The solar park is projected to extend over a surface of , reaching a production capacity of 130 MW by 2027. The BRUA pipeline is a natural gas pipeline from Podișor to Recaș,

Timiș County Timiș () is a county (''județ'') of western Romania on the border with Hungary and Serbia, in the historical regions of Romania, historical region of Banat, with the county seat at Timișoara. It is the westernmost and the largest county in Ro ...

, part of the planned

Bulgaria Bulgaria, officially the Republic of Bulgaria, is a country in Southeast Europe. It is situated on the eastern portion of the Balkans directly south of the Danube river and west of the Black Sea. Bulgaria is bordered by Greece and Turkey t ...

, Romania,

Hungary Hungary is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning much of the Pannonian Basin, Carpathian Basin, it is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the northeast, Romania to the east and southeast, Serbia to the south, Croatia and ...

, and

Austria Austria, formally the Republic of Austria, is a landlocked country in Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps. It is a federation of nine Federal states of Austria, states, of which the capital Vienna is the List of largest cities in Aust ...

gas interconnector. The pipeline is projected to extend to

Tuzla Tuzla (, , ) is the List of cities in Bosnia and Herzegovina, third-largest city of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the administrative center of Tuzla Canton of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina. As of 2013, it has a population of 110,979 inha ...

, to the east, on the

Black Sea The Black Sea is a marginal sea, marginal Mediterranean sea (oceanography), mediterranean sea lying between Europe and Asia, east of the Balkans, south of the East European Plain, west of the Caucasus, and north of Anatolia. It is bound ...

seashore, thereby connecting the gas extracted from the Neptun Deep gas field to the BRUA corridor. The 112nd SAM Battalion of the 1st Surface to Air Missiles Brigade is also located in Bucșani.

Villages

Vadu Lat

Vadu Lat (sometimes spelled Vadul-Lat) is a village in Bucșani commune. The village has a middle school and a psychiatric hospital. One of the most important employers in the county is ''Baza Vadu Lat'' (a small storehouse that buys the crops from farmers in the region). The society was listed on the

RASDAQ The Bucharest Stock Exchange (, BVB) is the stock exchange of Romania located in Bucharest. In 2023, the BVB's market capitalization increased by 52.7% to $64.9 billion. , there were 85 companies listed on the BVB. The capitalization of the Roma ...

Exchange until 2002. It is now owned by

Cargill Cargill, Incorporated is an American multinational food corporation based in Minnetonka, Minnesota, Minnetonka, Minnesota, and incorporated in Wilmington, Delaware. Founded in 1865 by William Wallace Cargill, it is the largest privately held c ...

. In antiquity, this area was the home of the Gumelnița Culture.Cultura Gumelnița

Natives

Stelian Badea Stelian Badea (born 29 July 1958), widely known as Stelică Badea, is a retired Romanian football midfielder. Biography He was born in Bucșani and his first steps in football were under the guidance of coach Stere Popescu. He debuted at I.O ...

(born 1958), footballer * Ilie Nițu (born 1931), sports shooter *

Constantin Zamfir Constantin Zamfir (born 15 May 1951) is a Romanian former football midfielder. International career Constantin Zamfir played 11 games for Romania, including appearances at qualifying matches for Euro 1976 and the 1978 World Cup. He also played ...

(born 1951), footballer

References

External links

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About the Bucșani City Hall and the projects for Vadu Lat
Communes in Giurgiu County Localities in Muntenia {{Giurgiu-geo-stub