Nuci is a commune in the northeastern part of

Ilfov County Ilfov () is the Counties of Romania, county that surrounds Bucharest, the capital of Romania. It used to be largely rural, but, after the fall of communism, many of the county's villages and communes developed into high-income commuter towns, whi ...

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. Its name means "walnut trees" in Romanian. It is composed of five villages: Balta Neagră, Merii Petchii, Micșuneștii Mari, Micșuneștii-Moară, and Nuci. The commune is located in the northeastern corner of the county, bordering

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and

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Natives

* Gheorghe Chivu (born 1947), linguist and philologist

References

Communes in Ilfov County Localities in Muntenia {{Ilfov-geo-stub