Cobadin is a commune in

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. The commune includes five villages: *Cobadin (historical names: ''Cobadinu'', ) *Viișoara (historical name: ''Caciamac'', ) *Negrești (historical name: ''Carabacâ'', ) *Conacu (historical name: ''Beșaul'') *Curcani (historical name: ''Chertic-Punar'', ) - disestablished by Presidential Decree before 1990, the village is nevertheless listed in the official settlements register The territory of the commune also includes the former village of ''Frasinu'' (historical name: ''Terzi-Veli''), at , nominally merged with Curcani by the 1968 administrative reform.

Geography

Cobadin is situated at an altitude of about , on the banks of the river

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(a right tributary of the

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). The commune is located in the southern part of Constanța County, southwest of the county seat, the port city of

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. It is crossed by

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DN3, which starts in

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, to the west, and ends in Constanța, on the

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coast.

History

Two battles were fought on the territory of the commune and in the surrounding area during

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: the First Battle of Cobadin (September 17–19, 1916), and the Second Battle of Cobadin (October 19–25, 1916).

Population

As of the 2011 census, the population of the commune was 8,346, out of which 6,480 (77.44%) were

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, 1,021 (12.23%) Turks, 442 (5.29%)

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, 359 (4.30%) Romani, 7 (0.08%)

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, and 37 others. At the 2021 census, Cobadin had 9,122 inhabitants; of those, 71.77% were Romanians, 15.86% Turks, 4.05% Tatars, and 1.26% Romani.

Natives

* Pericle Martinescu (1911 – 2005), writer and journalist * (1932 – 2017), nuclear physicist and honorary member of the

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* (1909 – 1987), writer and corresponding member of the Romanian Academy

References

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