Country Romania Status Commune Time zone EET (UTC+2) Local time Saturday 4:42 PM | County Constanța County Component villages Pecineaga, Vânători Area 9.5 km² | |
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Postal code 907235 (Pecineaga), 907236 (Vânători) Weather 8°C, Wind NE at 13 km/h, 82% Humidity | ||
Pecineaga is a commune in Constanța County, Romania. To the southeast of the commune lies the city of Mangalia.
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Map of Pecineaga 907235, Romania
Administration
The commune includes two villages:
Demographics
According to the 2002 census, it has a population 3,063, of which 97% are Romanians and the rest mostly Turks and Tatars. At the 2011 census, Pecineaga had 2,959 Romanians (95.82%), 10 Roma (0.32%), 77 Turks (2.49%), 36 Tatars (1.17%), 6 others (0.19%).
History
It was named after the Pechenegs, a Turkic semi-nomadic people which settled in this place in the 10th/11th century. When founded, the village bore the name Gerencik. It was colonized successively by Crimean Tatars (1857), Transylvanian shepherds (mocani) (after 1878), ploughers from Brăila County (1885) and Râmnicu Sărat. From 1933 until 1940 the village was named Ion Gheorghe Duca, after the prime minister assassinated in 1933 by an Iron Guard death squad.