23 August (Romanian: Douăzeci și Trei August) is a commune in Constanța County, Northern Dobruja, Romania. The commune includes three villages: 23 August (historical names: Tatlâgeac Mare, ; Domnița Elena) – named after the day of the 1944 royal coup d'état Dulcești (historical name: Tatlâgeac Mic, Turkish: Küçük-Tatlıcak) Moșneni (historical name: Pervelia, Turkish: Perveli)
Demographics
At the 2011 census, 23 August had 5,483 inhabitants, of which 4,813 (91.36%) were Romanians, 408 (7.74%) Tatars, 20 (0.38%) Turks, 20 (0.38%) Roma, and 7 (0.13%) others. At the 2021 census, the commune had a population of 5,178; of those, 84.32% were Romanians and 5.21% Tatars.
Natives Sîdîyîk Ibrahim H. Mîrzî (1909–1959), Crimean Tatar spiritual leader Ștefan Orza (born 2001), kickboxer
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