Jilava

Jilava is a town in Ilfov County in the Wallachia region of Romania.

Geographical location

The community Jilava located in the Great Wallachia and is bordered to the north- north-east to the sector 4 ( Berceni, Oltenitei, Timpuri Noi and Vacaresti ), the southern part of the capital Bucharest. Through the village run jointly with the European expressway E 70 and E 85 and the railway line Bucureşti - Giurgiu Giurgiu North. The according to different specifications - 2,676 ha or 2,865 ha - great community, located in the center Munteniens, the smallest of the 41 counties of Romania.

History

The place Jilava was first mentioned in documents in 1716. However, the history of settlement in the region dates back to the Bronze Age. On the area of the municipality was an archaeological find ( spearhead, bridles and a Pferdeskelet ) of the 11th century, which suggests a petschenegische origin made ​​.

On November 27, 1940 64 former dignitaries and officials were murdered in prison by Jilava while awaiting trial. On 4 September 1940, the government of a "national legionnaires State " had (led by Sima and General (later Marshal ) Ion Antonescu ) seized power in Romania; they killed many of their political opponents. 1944 Soviet troops occupied Jilava (as well as all the rest of Romania).

Population

In the census from the year 2002 11.919 people were registered in Jilava. 10,634 of them were Romanians, 1232 were Roma, 27 were Magyars, ten were Turks. In addition, three German and Ukrainians, Bulgarians and Greeks two and one Lipovans, a Tartar, a Serb and three without details, registered. Of the 11,537 registered people were Romanian Orthodox faith. On October 20, 2011 in the census in Jilava 12,223 people were counted.

Attractions

• The Fortul 13 ( ⊙ 44.3330326.10661 ) - one of 18 forts - a fortification of Bucharest from 1870 to 1890 on the initiative of the Romanian King Carol I built the final defense of the Turks was, from 1907, used as a prison of arrested farmers of the Romanian uprising. Next door is the prison Penitenciarul Bucureşti - Jilava, a formerly " feared prison in the country ," where a few decades ago - were completed including capital punishment - in the so-called Valea Piersicilor.
• The Romanian Orthodox churches " Sfintii Împăraţi Constantin şi Elena", built in 1817, renovated in 1889 and the " Adormirea Maicii Domnului ", built in 1843, renovated in 1986, are listed buildings.
• The fountain Radu Voda ( Cişmeaua Radu Voda ), in St. Mierlari 87, is a listed building.