Poarta Albă


Poarta Albă is a commune in Constanța County, Northern Dobruja, Romania. It has a population of 4,790, according to the 2002 census, of which 97% Romanians and most of the rest Turks and Tatars. The commune is a port on the Danube-Black Sea Canal.
In the early 1950s, a prison camp operated at Poarta Albă, part of a chain of forced labour camps set up along the length of the Canal by the communist authorities. Some 12,000 prisoners were held at the Poarta Albă camp. Many perished due to the harsh working conditions. According to a study done by the International Centre for Studies into Communism, 12.7% of all political prisoners in Communist Romania did some time at Poarta Albă.

Villages

The following villages are included in the Poarta Albă commune:
At the 2011 census, Poarta Albă had 4,792 Romanians, 4 Hungarians, 35 Roma , 53 Turks, 55 Tatars, 5 Lipovans, 5 others, 7 with undeclared ethnicity.