Country Romania Status Commune Time zone EET (UTC+2) Area 65.53 km² | County Constanța County Component villages Poarta Albă, Nazarcea Website [1] Local time Wednesday 9:40 AM | |
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Poarta Albă (literally in Romanian: White Gate) is a commune in Constanța County, Romania. It has a population of 4,790, according to the 2002 census, of which 97% Romanians and most of the rest Turks and Tatars. The commune is a port on the Danube-Black Sea Canal.
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Map of Poarta Alb%C4%83 907245, Romania
In the early 1950s, a prison camp operated at Poarta Albă, part of a chain of forced labor camps set up along the length of the Canal by the communist authorities. Some 12,000 prisoners were held at the Poarta Albă camp. Many perished due to the harsh working conditions.
Villages
The following villages are included in the Poarta Albă commune:
Demographics
At the 2011 census, Poarta Albă had 4,792 Romanians (96.69%), 4 Hungarians (0.08%), 35 Roma (0.71%), 53 Turks (1.07%), 55 Tatars (1.11%), 5 Lipovans (0.10%), 5 others (0.10%), 7 with undeclared ethnicity (0.14%).