Cernavodă

Town

Anghel Saligny Bridge

Coat of arms

Location of Cernavodă

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

Romania

Constanța County

Government

• Mayor

Liviu Negoiță (National Liberal Party)

Area

• Total

46.69 km² (18.03 sq mi)

Population (2011)

• Total

16,129

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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