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PRESENTATION - THE MUNICIPALITY OF CONSTANTA

 

The municipality Constanţa is located in the Constanţa county, in south-eastern extremity of Romania, on the Black Sea shore, having the coordinates: 44 11 `- northern latitude, 28 39` - eastern longitude. The area of its administrative territory is 1121.66 km2.
In the northern extremity of the city is located the Mamaia Resort, with a beach of 6 km oriented to East, thus being sunny all day long.
The Port Constanţa is the main port of Romania to the Black Sea and the fourth as importance in Europe, being spread over an area of 3182 ha (land and water).
The bench mark of the Commercial Port Constanţa and of Leisure Port Tomis is + 2,50 m altitude.
Population
The Constanţa municipality's population exceeds 310,471 people, mostly Romanian, along the minorities of Turkish, Tatar, Roma, Russian, Hungarian, Armenian, Greek, Bulgarian, Ukrainian, followers of religions Orthodox, Roman Catholic, Greek Catholic, Reformed, Unitarian, Muslim and so forth.
Short Description
The undisputed references of archeological nature are attesting the existence - even since the sixth century B.C. – of the city of Tomis, on the promontory which represents the hearth of today Constanţa.
The Tomis - the host of the exiled poet Publius Ovidius Naso, was founded within a large Greek colonization process on the shore of the Pontus Euxinus (Greek name for Hospitable Sea), acquiring the attributes of a city beginning with the fourth century B.C. The importance of Tomis increased considerably in the time of Emperor Constantin the Great - whose name derives the current name of the city. Being attacked by migratory peoples, and then under the domination of the Ottoman Empire, the city was often made ​​ruins.
About its real development can be talked only after the victory of Romania in the War of Independence (1878), when the province came back to its mother country. A second stage of spectacular evolution of Constanţa is represented by the interwar period, the next moment of relief in its development being the Revolution of 1989. The spiritual life of the city is represented by the activity of 5 theaters, 5 museums, a number of subsidiaries of certain societies of scientific research, to which can be added the important contribution of local newspapers and television.