Ovidiu

Ovidiu
Town
Ovidiu mosque
Coat of arms
Ovidiu Location of Ovidiu
Coordinates:
Country	Romania
Status	Town
Component villages	Poiana, Culmea
Government
• Mayor	George Scupra (Social Democratic Party)
Area
• Total	82.63 km2 (31.90 sq mi)
Population (2011)
• Total	12,342
Time zone	EET (UTC+2)
• Summer (DST)	EEST (UTC+3)
Website	http://www.primariaovidiu.ro/

For the Romanian given name and people named Ovidiu see Ovidiu (name).

Ovidiu (Romanian pronunciation: [oˈvidju], historical name: Canara, Turkish: Kanara) is a town situated a few kilometres north of Constanţa in the Constanţa County, south-eastern Romania. Ovidiu is quite small, with a population of around 12,000, and many wealthy inhabitants of Constanţa retire there.

In 1930, the town was renamed Ovidiu after the Roman poet Ovid (Latin: Ovidius). He was supposedly buried on a nearby small island (also called Ovidiu) in the Siutghiol Lake.

Administration

The town of Ovidiu administers the villages of Poiana (historical names: Cocoşul - until 1964, Turkish: Horozlar - until 1926) and Culmea. The latter was established in 2011 by legally separating from Ovidiu two territorially distinct communities, Social Group Culmea and Social Group Nazarcea.

Demographics

Historical population
Year	Pop.	±%
1992	12,591	—
2002	13,458	+6.9%
2011	12,342	−8.3%
Source: Census data

At the 2011 census, Ovidiu had 11,240 Romanians (91.07%), 3 Hungarians (0.02%), 229 Roma (1.86%), 3 Germans (0.02%), 358 Turks (2.90%), 396 Tatars (3.21%), 8 Lipovans (0.06%), 36 Aromanians (0.29%), 69 others (0.56%).

Gallery

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  The Ovidiu island in the Siutghiol Lake