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
- Population
- 10333
- Area
- 182.860000
- Official website
- www.primariadabuleni.ro
- Image
- PrimariaDăbuleni.jpg
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- Commons category
- Dăbuleni
- street address
- Strada Unirii 15, Dăbuleni 207220
- native label
- Dăbuleni
- phone number
- +40-251334555
- email address
- mailto:[email protected]
- inception
- 1494-06-05
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- 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.
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