Independența is a commune in

Constanța County Constanța () is a Counties of Romania, county (județ) of Romania on the Bulgaria–Romania border, border with Bulgaria, in the Dobruja region. Its capital city is also named Constanța. Demographics In 2021, it had a population of 655,997 ...

Northern Dobruja Northern Dobruja ( or simply ; , ''Severna Dobrudzha'') is the part of Dobruja within the borders of Romania. It lies between the lower Danube, Danube River and the Black Sea, bordered in the south by Southern Dobruja, which is a part of Bulgaria. ...

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 includes five villages: * Independența (historical name: ''Bairamdede'', ) * Fântâna Mare (historical name: ''Bașpunar'', ) * Movila Verde (historical names: ''Fetești'', ) * Olteni (historical names: ''Demircea'', ) * Tufani (historical names: ''Cara Agi'', ) The commune also included the villages of Periș (historical name: ''Armutlia''), located at , and Căciulați (historical name: ''Cealmagea''), located at , which were nominally merged with Olteni by the 1968 administrative reform and are currently deserted.

Demographics

At the 2011 census, Independența had 2,333

Romanians Romanians (, ; dated Endonym and exonym, exonym ''Vlachs'') are a Romance languages, Romance-speaking ethnic group and nation native to Central Europe, Central, Eastern Europe, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe. Sharing a Culture of Romania, ...

(74.8%), 392 Turks (12.6%), 271

Tatars Tatars ( )Tatar
in the Collins English Dictionary are a group of Turkic peoples across Eas ...

(8.7%), 4 others (0.1%).Tab8. Populaţia stabilă după etnie – judeţe, municipii, oraşe, comune
2011 census results, Institutul Național de Statistică, accessed 17 February 2020.

References

Communes in Constanța County Localities in Northern Dobruja Turkish communities in Romania {{Constanţa-geo-stub