Mihail Kogălniceanu () is a commune in

Tulcea County Tulcea County () is a county (județ) of Romania, in the historical region Dobruja, with the capital city at Tulcea. It includes in its northeast corner the large and thinly-populated estuary of the Danube. Demographics In 2021, Tulcea Coun ...

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. It is composed of three villages: Lăstuni (formerly ''Hagilar''), Mihail Kogălniceanu (formerly ''Enichioi''), and Rândunica (formerly ''Kongaz'' or ''Congaz''). At the 2011 census, the population was 98.4% Romanian and 1.1%

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.Populația stabilă după etnie - județe, municipii, orașe, comune
INSSE At the 1930 census, the ethnic composition was as follows. Congaz was 93.9% Bulgarian and 4.5% Romanian; Hagilar was 96.2% Bulgarian and 3.2% Romanian; Mihail Kogălniceanu was 67.8% Bulgarian and 31.2% Romanian.Populația statornică în 1930
p. 480, Institutul Central de Statistică The ethnic Bulgarian population was resettled to Bulgaria during the

population exchange Population transfer or resettlement is a type of mass migration that is often imposed by a state policy or international authority. Such mass migrations are most frequently spurred on the basis of ethnicity or religion, but they also occur d ...

following the

Treaty of Craiova The Treaty of Craiova (; ) was signed on 7 September 1940 and ratified on 13 September 1940 by the Kingdom of Bulgaria and the Kingdom of Romania. Under its terms, Romania had to allow Bulgaria to retake Southern Dobruja, which Romania had gained ...

. As a result of this population exchange, the commune gained a large Aromanian community that still exists today.

References

Notes Sources * Communes in Tulcea County Localities in Northern Dobruja Aromanian settlements in Romania {{Tulcea-geo-stub