Videle

Videle
—  Town  —
Location of Videle
Videle Location of Videle
Coordinates: 44°17′0″N 25°32′0″E / 44.283333°N 25.533333°E / 44.283333; 25.533333Coordinates: 44°17′0″N 25°32′0″E / 44.283333°N 25.533333°E / 44.283333; 25.533333
Country	Romania
County	Teleorman County
Status	Town
Government
– Mayor	Lucian Militaru (Democratic Party)
Area
– Total	79.96 km2 (30.9 sq mi)
Population (2002)
– Total	12,015
Time zone	EET (UTC+2)
– Summer (DST)	EEST (UTC+3)
Website	http://www.primariavidele.ro/

Videle (Romanian pronunciation: [ˈvidele]) is a town in Teleorman County, southern Romania, with a population of 12,015 in 2002. It was upgraded to town status in 1968 by incorporation of a few villages nearby. Today, Coşoaia is the single village the town administers.

Videle is of some importance as a railway junction, for the railway track heading south to Bulgaria leaves the main Walachian East-West-railway from Bucharest to Craiova.

Children's residential hospital

Located adjacent to the main hospital grounds, the local 'Residential Hospital for Incurable Children' gained international notoriety for its appalling conditions and deprivations. These became public following the overthrow of the Ceauşescu government and a damning report by an investigative journalist from the Washington Post in 1990.^[1]

References

1. ^ Gloviczki, Peter J. (2004). "Ceauşescu's Children: The Process of Democratisation and the Plight of Romania's Orphans". Critique: A Worldwide Student Journal of Politics (Fall): 117. http://lilt.ilstu.edu/critique/Fall%202004/Peter_Gloviczki.pdf. Retrieved 2010-04-30.