Constanța

Constanța is a city of 293 thousand on România's Black Sea coast. It is the largest port on that sea. It is famous for the homesick laments of the Roman poet, Ovid, who was exiled here at the end of his life. Besides its Orthodox Christian churches, the city hosts a mosque that is the regional center of Islam, which has a giant Turkish carpet.

External references

Casino of Constanța, on the shore

Footnotes

1. 2012 calculation, world-gazetteer.com, accessed 1/21/2013.
2. It is listed as a world-important oil port in Alastair Cooper, ed., The Times Atlas of the Oceans (Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, 1983), "commodity loading ports" map.