Pecineaga

Infobox Settlement
subdivision_type = Country
subdivision_name = ROU
timezone=EET
utc_offset=+2
timezone_DST=EEST
utc_offset_DST=+3
latd = 43 | latm = 53 | lats = 43 | latNS = N
longd = 28 | longm = 29 | longs = 58 | longEW = E
map_caption = Location of Pecineaga

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official_name=Pecineaga
image_shield=


subdivision_type1=County
subdivision_name1=Constanţa County
subdivision_type2=Status
subdivision_name2=Commune
settlement_type=Commune|
leader_title=Mayor
leader_name=Niculae Stan
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leader_party=Social Democratic Party
area_total_km2=9.5
population_as_of=2002
population_total=3063
postal_code_type= Postal code
postal_code= 907235 (Pecineaga), 907236 (Vânători)
website=http://www.primaria-pecineaga.ro/

Pecineaga ( _tr. Pecenek, old names: "Gherengic", _tr. Gerencik; "I.G. Duca") is a commune in Constanţa County, Romania. The commune includes two villages, Pecineaga and Vânători (historical names: "Haidarchioi"; _tr. Aşçılar). To the southeast of the commune lies the city of Mangalia.

Population

According to the 2002 census, it has a population 3,063, of which 97% are Romanians and the rest mostly Turks and Tatars.

History

It was named after the Pechenegs, a Turkic semi-nomadic people which settled in this place in the 10th/11th century. When founded, the village bore the name "Gerencik". It was colonized successively by Crimean Tatars (1857), Transylvanian shepherds ("mocani") (after 1878), ploughers from Brăila County (1885) and Râmnicu Sărat. From 1933 until 1940 the village was named "Ion Gheorghe Duca", after the prime minister assassinated in 1933 by an Iron Guard death squad.