Murighiol

Murighiol
Commune
Location of Murighiol
Coordinates: 45°02′N 29°10′E / 45.033°N 29.167°ECoordinates: 45°02′N 29°10′E / 45.033°N 29.167°E
Country	Romania
County	Tulcea
Component villages	Colina, Dunavăţu de Jos, Dunavăţu de Sus, Murighiol, Plopul, Sarinasuf, Uzlina
Government
• Mayor	Filip Ivanov (since 2004) (PD)
Area
• Total	804.49 km^2 (310.62 sq mi)
Population (2011)
• Total	3,164
• Density	3.9/km^2 (10/sq mi)
Postal code	827150
Website	http://www.cjtulcea.ro/judet/murighiol.html (Romanian)

Murighiol (Independenţa from 1983 to 1996) is a commune in Tulcea County, Dobruja, Romania. It is composed of seven villаges:

• Murighiol
• Plopul (formerly Beibudzac)
• Colina (Russian: Калина)
• Dunavăţu de Jos (Russian: Долни Дунавец)
• Dunavăţu de Sus (Russian: Горни Дунавец)
• Sarinasuf
• Uzlina

At the 2011 census, 94.6% of the inhabitants were Romanians, 4.5% Ukrainians and 0.4% Turks.

The commune's name is of Turkish origin: moru ("violet") and göl ("lake") compounded to mean "violet lake".^[1]

The archaeological site of Halmyris is located near the village of Murighiol- Halmyris was a Roman legionary fort from the 1st-4th centuries CE. It is currently under excavation by Dr. Mihail Zahariade and Dr. John Karavas.

References

1. Limba română, p.264. Institutul de Lingvistică din București, 1978

• Murighiol at GEOnet Names Server