Țăndărei
town in Ialomița, Romania
Țăndărei (Romanian pronunciation: [t͡səndəˈrej]) is a town in Ialomița County, Muntenia, Romania. The town is located on the Bărăgan Plain, on the left bank of the Ialomița River. It was declared a town in 1968. It is crossed by the national road DN2A, which connects Slobozia with Constanța.
Țăndărei has been called a "Beverley Hills [sic] for Gypsy gangsters". The town gained this reputation as many ethnic Roma engaged in criminal activity as well as welfare fraud in the UK, using the money obtained from those activities to build opulent villas.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, the town was also in the spotlight of national media and of social media, because the ethnic Roma of the town were accused of bringing the virus from Western Europe and not respecting the anti-COVID measurements implemented by the government.
Demographics
At the 2011 census, the town had 13,219 inhabitants; 65.47% of the population declared themselves as ethnic Romanian and 10.85% as Roma (23.55% did not declare any ethnicity and 0.11% declared another ethnicity). At the 2021 census, Țăndărei had a population of 12,761; of those, 47.39% were Romanians, 9.98% Roma, and 42.51% with undeclared ethnicity.
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The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 27, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q423441. VIAF identifies the subject as 66148449834815692200. The Library of Congress control number is no2016168582. Authority coordinates are 44.640, 27.659. 4 of 5 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1968, 2011 and 2021.
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This entry incorporates text from “Țăndărei” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.