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Calafat
Sign in to saveCalafat (; ) is a city in Dolj County, southern Romania, in the region of Oltenia. It lies on the river Danube, opposite the Bulgarian city of Vidin, to which it is linked by the Calafat-Vidin Bridge, opened in 2013. After the destruction of the bridges of late antiquity, for centuries Calafat was connected with the southern bank of the Danube by boat, and later by ferryboat.
Key facts
- Romanian subdivision.type
- municipality
- Romanian subdivision.official_name
- Calafat
- Romanian subdivision.county
- Dolj
- Romanian subdivision.population_total
- auto
- Romanian subdivision.map_caption
- Location in Dolj County
- Romanian subdivision.image_skyline
- Monument_Calafat.JPG
- Romanian subdivision.image_caption
- The monument commemorating the soldiers who fought in the War of Independence in 1877
- Romanian subdivision.image_shield
- ROU DJ Calafat CoA.svg
- Romanian subdivision.leader_name
- Mihai Cotea
- Romanian subdivision.leader_term
- 2024–2028
- Romanian subdivision.leader_party
- PSD
- Romanian subdivision.elevation
- 35
- Romanian subdivision.area_total
- 103.59
- Romanian subdivision.postal_code
- 205200
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- port city
- Official name
- Calafat
- Country
- Habsburg monarchy
- Located in
- Dolj County
- Continent
- Europe
- Population
- 13807
- Area
- 103.59
- Elevation
- 35.000000
- Time zone
- UTC+03:00
- Body of water
- Danube
- Official website
- www.municipiulcalafat.ro
- Image
- Primaria calafat.jpg
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- native label
- Calafat
- twinned administrative body
- Vidin
- Commons category
- Calafat
- contains settlement
- Golenți
- topic's main category
- Category:Calafat
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Calafat
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
- located in/on physical feature
- Oltenia
- phone number
- +40-251231424
- street address
- B-dul. T. Vladimirescu, Nr. 24, Calafat, cod 205.200, Dolj
- email address
- mailto:[email protected]
- inception
- 1424-00-00
- historical region
- Oltenia
- postal code
- 205200
Sources (10)
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Encyclopedic overview
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Calafat (; ) is a city in Dolj County, southern Romania, in the region of Oltenia. It lies on the river Danube, opposite the Bulgarian city of Vidin, to which it is linked by the Calafat-Vidin Bridge, opened in 2013. After the destruction of the bridges of late antiquity, for centuries Calafat was connected with the southern bank of the Danube by boat, and later by ferryboat.
The city administers three villages: Basarabi, Golenți, and Ciupercenii Vechi.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Calafat” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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