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| General Description | Town in SE extremity of Romania (Constanta county), situated on the Black Sea coast, elevation 0-10 m, 44 km S of the municipality of Constanta, S of the parallel of 44 N, on the same latitude as the Freanch resort of Nice; population 43,374 (July 1, 1991). Railway terminus. Mangalia, whose current name derives from Byzantine Greek (Pangalia or Pancalia - "the most beautiful" - mentioned in the 12th century on a map from Pisa), is the southernmost resort on the Romanian coast of the Black Sea, built on the place where in Antiquity there was the flourishing Greek city of Callatis (founded in the 6th c. B.C. by Greek colonists from Heraklion). |
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