Type: | commune |
County: | Constanța |
Official Name: | Mircea Vodă |
Subdivisions: | Mircea Vodă, Gherghina, Satu Nou, Țibrinu |
Leader Name: | George Ionașcu[1] |
Leader Term: | 2020 - 2024 |
Leader Party: | PSD |
Coordinates: | 44.2775°N 28.1717°W |
Elevation: | 30 |
Area Total: | 70.89 |
Population Total: | auto |
Postal Code: | 907195 |
Area Code: | +40 x41 |
Mircea Vodă is a commune in Constanța County, Northern Dobruja, Romania. It is located in the central part of the county, along the Danube–Black Sea Canal.
At the 2011 census, Mircea Vodă had a population of 4,886; of those, 4,727 were Romanians (99.24%), 28 Roma (0.59%), 6 Turks (0.13%), and 2 others (0.04%).[2] At the 2021 census, there were 4,907 inhabitants, of which 90.46% were Romanians and 1.75% Roma.[3]
Settlement in the area dates back at least to the time of the Roman Empire. In a place that the local Turks called "Acşandemir Tabiasi", a 10th-century castrum was found, which has a stone vallum. A Slavic inscription found in this place mentions a certain "Jupan Dimitrie" and the year 943.[4]
The following villages belong to the commune: