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Also known as Dabuleni

Dăbuleni () is a town of Dolj County, Oltenia, Romania. It was declared a town in 2004 (Law no. 83/2004). One village, Chiașu, is administered by the town.

Key facts

Romanian subdivision.type
town
Romanian subdivision.county
Dolj
Romanian subdivision.official_name
Dăbuleni
Romanian subdivision.image_flag
ROU DJ Dabuleni.png
Romanian subdivision.image_shield
ROU_DJ_Dabuleni_CoA.tiff
Romanian subdivision.image_skyline
PrimariaDăbuleni.jpg
Romanian subdivision.image_caption
Dăbuleni townhall
Romanian subdivision.map_caption
Location in Dolj County
Romanian subdivision.leader_name
Marian-Viorel Nanu
Romanian subdivision.leader_term
2024–2028
Romanian subdivision.leader_party
PNL
Romanian subdivision.area_total
182.86
Romanian subdivision.population_total
auto

via Wikipedia infobox

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Encyclopedic overview

4 sections
Contents
  • Irrigation near Dăbuleni
  • Culture
  • Sand Museum of Dăbuleni
  • References

Dăbuleni () is a town of Dolj County, Oltenia, Romania. It was declared a town in 2004 (Law no. 83/2004). One village, Chiașu, is administered by the town.

Dăbuleni is known for the sandy areas surrounding it; since the 1980s, those areas have become part of an desert, known as the Oltenian Sahara. The town is the only place in Europe where a museum dedicated to sand exists. If the north part of the town is a desert, the south part is a Danube flooding area known as the or (the "Motherland of the Melons" or "of the Watermelons"), from which the Dăbuleni melons are famous in all of Romania.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Dăbuleni” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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