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Travel by rental car or tour bus and train through the Ilfov region of Muntenia in Romania. Hotels in Bucharest are well-priced, and great travel and tourism activities from shopping, to exploring the villages, folk art, castles, mountains and forests. See all of County Ilfov, from Bucharest to Periş Ciolpani Gruiu Nuci Snagov Grădiştea Moara Vlăsiei Baloteşti Corbeanca Dascălu Petrăchioaia Otopeni Tunari Ştefăneştii de Jos Afumaţi Voluntari Găneasa Mogoşoaia Buftea Chitila Dragomireşti ale Chiajna Dobroieşti Pantelimon Brăneşti Ciorogârla Domneşti Clinceni Bragadiru Popeşti-eordeni Glina Cernica Cornetu Măgurele Jilava Berceni Dărăşti 1 Decembrie Vidra !
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Is it a county or a special district? It used
to be alot larger before 1972, and is today the smallest county in
Romania, dwarfed by the might of Bucharest in the southern half of the
county.
County Ilfov has eight towns, from the suburban
Bucharest satellites of Otopeni, Voluntari, Bragadiru, and populous
Pantelimon, to slightly further afield Buftea, Chitila, Popeşti-Leordeni
and Măgurele. There are also 31 communes, listed below.
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County Ilfov used to be largely rural, but after the
1989 revolution, many of the county's villages and communes developed into
high-income commuter towns, which act like suburbs or satellites of
Bucharest.
The development and gentrification of the county is
continuing, with many towns in Ilfov, such as Otopeni, having higher some
of the highest GDP per capita levels in the country.
The county has a large surface covered with forests
and also due to its lakes, it is a frequent week-end and holiday
destinations for the inhabitants of Bucharest.
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County Ilfov is surrounded by counties Prahova in the north,
Ialomiţa and Călăraşi to the
east, Giurgiu to the south and
Dâmboviţa to the
sun. Ilfov has an area of 1,583 km˛ and it is situated in the Romanian
Plain between the Argeş River and the Ialomiţa River.
The main rivers that pass through the county are the Dâmboviţa,
Colentina and Gruiu rivers. Several lakes can be found in Ilfov county,
notably Cernica, Snagov Lake and Căldăruşani Lake.
Demographics
County Ilfov has a population of 300,123 inhabitants of the
shire, excluding Bucharest. The population density is 188 per km˛. 40%
of the population commutes and works in Bucharest, although in recent
years, many industrial plants were built outside Bucharest in County Ilfov
proper. It has an annual growth of about 4%.
Economy
The base occupation used to be the agriculture. Nowadays, due to the
economical growth in Bucharest, many companies have opened their offices,
production facilities or warehouses in the nearby villages, situated in
the Ilfov County, thus making it the most developed county in Romania.
The predominant industries in the county are:
Food and beverages industry
Textile industry
Mechanical components industry
Chemical industry
Paper industry
Furniture industry
Rubber industry
Electrical equipments industry
Transport equipment industry
Electronic and optical equipment
At Otopeni there is the main aerial transport hub in Romania - the
Henri Coandă International Airport. Also all the main roads and railways
leaving Bucharest pass through the county.
Towns
County Ilfov has eight towns, from the Bucharest suburb satellites of
Otopeni Voluntari, Bragadiru, and populous Pantelimon, to slightly further
afield Buftea, Chitila, Popeşti-Leordeni and Măgurele. There are
also 31 communes, listed below.
There are serious debates about the city level awarded to Voluntari,
as it is alleged that it was given in regard to the city's political
affiliation, rather than population, development or any other objective
features. Despite this, Voluntari does have a population of 15,000, and
many other localities with this population have been given city-status in
the past.
Before 1972, it used to be one of the largest counties of Romania, but
parts of it were added to neighbouring counties and nowadays it is the
smallest (excluding the city of Bucharest, which has a special status).
Between 1981 and 1997, it was called "Sectorul Agricol Ilfov" and it was
not a separate county, but subordinate to the capital.
A Commune is a larger village which usually acts as a regional centre, with a
mayor, postal and police services, and sometimes larger stores. Other
villages may belong to the commune, and the over 2500 communes in Romania vary
widely in size.
Periş
Ciolpani
Gruiu
Nuci
Snagov
Grădiştea
Moara Vlăsiei
Baloteşti
Corbeanca
Dascălu
Petrăchioaia
Tunari
Ştefăneştii de Jos
Afumaţi
Găneasa
Mogoşoaia
Dragomireşti Vale
Chiajna
Dobroieşti
Brăneşti
Ciorogârla
Domneşti
Clinceni
Glina
Cernica
Cornetu
Jilava
Berceni
Dărăşti
1 Decembrie
Vidra
Ilfov's Future
County Ilfov has no county seat!
Most of the county's institutions are located in Bucharest, some being
located in Otopeni, others in Buftea. There is a struggle for both towns
to be named county capital, one boasting its development and resources
(Otopeni has the biggest income per capita in Romania and the biggest
airport in the country), the other population and surface.
This rivalry is fairly recent, since Ilfov used to be mainly rural and
relatively poor in the past decades, and therefore Bucharest was seen as
its main administrative centre. Nowadays, with a unique political
identity being given to Ilfov, an identity that is separate to Bucharest,
it is likely that a fixed capital city will be determined for Ilfov.
The County Capital Competition
Buftea is the most likely candidate because it is further from
Bucharest and less associated with the city, whereas Otopeni is commonly
seen as a suburb of Bucharest, and it would therefore be problematic to
have the capital so close to the national capital, Bucharest.
However, in 2005, there were proposed some plans of merging Bucharest
with other 90 communes located to up to 40 km outside the city, in the
Ilfov county and other nearby counties into a "metropolitan area" of
Bucharest.
Car license plates start with IL, and dialling is the
same as for Bucharest, in the (x1) area code.
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Mogoşoaia Palace
Most of today's Ilfov County used to be covered by Codrii Vlăsiei, a
thick forest, but there were several Dacian settlements, most important
being Argedava, on the right bank of the Argeş River in what is now
Popeşti, which was the capital of king Burebista.
The thick forests were useful for retreat during the migration age
because they were not easy to cross on horseback. In fact, the name of
the forest means "the Forests of the Vlachs" (Romanians), a name given by
the Slavs who inhabited the nearby plains.
The county was named after the Ilfov river and it is of Slavic origin,
being composed from "Ilf" (a name?) and suffix "-ov" and it appears for
the first time in a 1482 donation act of voivode Vlad Călugărul to the
monastery of Snagov.
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