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Murfatlar

Romania / Constanta / Basarabi /

The name of the town originates from the Tatar word murvet (meaning "generous man").
Between 1921 and 1965, and from 1975 to 2007, the locality was known as Basarabi. On June 26, 2007 the lower house of Romania's Parliament, the Chamber of Deputies, approved a proposal to have the name changed back to Murfatlar, which was also ratified by the Senate and promulgated by the president of Romania on December 20, 2007.
Location of a rock hewn monastery (Basarabi Cave Complex)with a scriptorium belonging to the Preslav Literary School of the First Bulgarian Empire (9-10 century CE).
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Coordinates:   44°10'49"N   28°24'26"E
This article was last modified 13 years ago