Mioveni () is a town in

Argeș County Argeș County () is a county (''județ'') of Romania, in Muntenia, with the capital city at Pitești. Demographics On 20 October 2011, it had a population of 612,431 and the population density was 89/km2. * Romanians – 97% * Roma (Gypsi ...

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, approximately 15 km (9 miles) north-east of

Pitești Pitești () is a city in Romania, located on the river Argeș. The capital and largest city of Argeș County, it is an important commercial and industrial center, as well as the home of two universities. Pitești is situated in the historical re ...

. , it had a population of 31,998. The town administers four villages: Clucereasa, Colibași, Făgetu and Racovița. BisericaDinMioveni

History

It was first mentioned in a written record in 1485. It developed much in the 1970s after the construction of the

Automobile Dacia S.C. Automobile Dacia S.A., commonly known as Dacia (), is a Romanian car manufacturer that takes its name from the historical region that constitutes present-day Romania. The company was established in 1966. In 1999, after 33 years, the Roma ...

manufacturing plant, inaugurated in 1968. There is also a Nuclear Research Institute, that builds components and materials for the

Cernavodă Nuclear Power Plant The Nuclear Power Plant in Cernavodă ( ro, Centrala Nucleară de la Cernavodă) is the only nuclear power plant in Romania. It produces around 20% of the country's electricity. It uses CANDU reactor technology from AECL, using heavy water pr ...

, and a high security prison. It officially became a town in 1989, as a result of the

Romanian rural systematization program The Romanian rural systematization program was a social engineering program undertaken by Nicolae Ceaușescu's Romania primarily at the end of the 1980s. The legal framework for this program was established as early as 1974, but it only began in ...

. Prior to April 1989, when it was declared a town, the place was a commune under the name of ''Colibași''. In 1996, the historic name of Mioveni was revived, although the old village had been completely razed under the Communist regime in order to make way for new urban construction.Mioveni
at the Argeș County Council site; accessed July 2, 2013

Economy

is headquartered in the town.

Sports

Its

football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unqualified, the word ''football'' normally means the form of football that is the most popular where the word is used. Sports commonly ...

team, CS Mioveni (formerly ''Dacia Mioveni'') played in the

Romanian first league The Liga I (; ''First League''), also spelled as Liga 1, is a Romanian professional league for men's association football clubs. Currently sponsored by betting company Superbet, it is officially known as the SuperLiga. It is the country's top ...

for two seasons: in 2007–08 and in 2011–12. They also reached the semifinals of the 2007–08 Romanian Cup.

Natives

* Andrei Panait

Twin cities

* Nagyvázsony –

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* Kiskunlacháza –

Planned partner city relations: * Tököl –

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