Axiopolis
| Cernavodă | ||
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 Location of Cernavodă |
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| Coordinates: 44°20′17″N 28°02′01″E / 44.33806°N 28.03361°ECoordinates: 44°20′17″N 28°02′01″E / 44.33806°N 28.03361°E | ||
| Country |
 Romania
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| County | Constanța County | |
| Status | Town | |
| Government | ||
| • Mayor | Liviu Negoiță (National Liberal Party) | |
| Area | ||
| • Total | 46.69 km2 (18.03 sq mi) | |
| Population (2011) | ||
| • Total |
 16,129 |
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| Time zone | EET (UTC+2) | |
| • Summer (DST) | EEST (UTC+3) | |
| Climate | Cfa | |
| Website | http://www.primaria-cernavoda.ro/ | |
Cernavodă (Romanian pronunciation: [t͡ʃernaˈvodə], historical names: Thracian: Axiopa, Greek: Axiopolis, Bulgarian: Черна вода Cherna voda, Turkish: Boğazköy) is a town in Constanța County, Northern Dobruja, Romania with a population of 20,514.
The town's name is derived from the Bulgarian černa voda (черна вода in Cyrillic), meaning "black water". This name is regarded by some scholars as a calque of the earlier Thracian name Axíopa, from IE *n.ksei "dark" and upā "water" (cf. Avestan axšaēna "dark" and Lithuanian ùpė "river, creek").
The town is a Danube fluvial port. It houses the Cernavodă Nuclear Power Plant, consisting of two CANDU reactors providing about 18% of Romania's electrical energy output. The second reactor was built through a joint venture between Canada's Atomic Energy of Canada Limited and Italy's ANSALDO and became fully functional in November 2007.
The Danube-Black Sea Canal, opened in 1984, runs from Cernavodă to Agigea and Năvodari.
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