Dăbuleni
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Dăbuleni () is a town of Dolj County, Oltenia, Romania. It was declared a town in 2004 (Law no. 83/2004). One village, Chiașu, is administered by the town.
Key facts
- Romanian subdivision.type
- town
- Romanian subdivision.county
- Dolj
- Romanian subdivision.official_name
- Dăbuleni
- Romanian subdivision.image_flag
- ROU DJ Dabuleni.png
- Romanian subdivision.image_shield
- ROU_DJ_Dabuleni_CoA.tiff
- Romanian subdivision.image_skyline
- PrimariaDăbuleni.jpg
- Romanian subdivision.image_caption
- Dăbuleni townhall
- Romanian subdivision.map_caption
- Location in Dolj County
- Romanian subdivision.leader_name
- Marian-Viorel Nanu
- Romanian subdivision.leader_term
- 2024–2028
- Romanian subdivision.leader_party
- PNL
- Romanian subdivision.area_total
- 182.86
- Romanian subdivision.population_total
- auto
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Official name
- Dăbuleni
- Country
- Habsburg monarchy
- Located in
- Dolj County
- Population
- 10333
- Area
- 182.860000
- Time zone
- UTC+03:00
- Official website
- www.primariadabuleni.ro
- Image
- PrimariaDăbuleni.jpg
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- Commons category
- Dăbuleni
- street address
- Strada Unirii 15, Dăbuleni 207220
- located in/on physical feature
- Oltenia
- native label
- Dăbuleni
- phone number
- +40-251334555
- email address
- mailto:[email protected]
- inception
- 1494-06-05
- historical region
- Oltenia
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Encyclopedic overview
4 sectionsContents
- Irrigation near Dăbuleni
- Culture
- Sand Museum of Dăbuleni
- References
Dăbuleni () is a town of Dolj County, Oltenia, Romania. It was declared a town in 2004 (Law no. 83/2004). One village, Chiașu, is administered by the town.
Dăbuleni is known for the sandy areas surrounding it; since the 1980s, those areas have become part of an desert, known as the Oltenian Sahara. The town is the only place in Europe where a museum dedicated to sand exists. If the north part of the town is a desert, the south part is a Danube flooding area known as the or (the "Motherland of the Melons" or "of the Watermelons"), from which the Dăbuleni melons are famous in all of Romania.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Dăbuleni” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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