Place:Cernavodă, Constanța, Romania

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NameCernavodă
Alt namesAxiopolissource: ARLIS/NA: Ancient Site Names (1995)
Cernavodăsource: Getty Vocabulary Program
Heracleasource: ARLIS/NA: Ancient Site Names (1995)
TypeCity
Coordinates44.333°N 28.05°E
Located inConstanța, Romania
source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names


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Cernavodă (historical names: Thracian: Axiopa, , ,) 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").

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History

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Cernavodă was founded (under the name Axiopolis) by the ancient Greeks in the 4th century BC as a trading post for contacts with local Dacians.

The Constanța - Cernavodă railroad was opened in 1860 by the Ottoman administration.

Cernavodă was one of the capitals of the short-lived Silistra Nouă County (1878–1879).

The town gives its name to the late copper age Cernavodă archaeological culture, ca. 4000—3200 BC.

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