Mihail KogÃÂlniceanu () is a commune in ConstanÃÂa County, Northern Dobruja, Romania, located northwest of ConstanÃÂa proper. The commune includes three villages:
The commune further includes two territorially distinct communities, Social Group Sibioara and Social Group Ceres, which are legally part of the village of Mihail KogÃÂlniceanu. The Mihail KogÃÂlniceanu International Airport is located nearby.
The village is situated on the site of a Roman settlement called Vicus Clementianus, discovered by the archaeologist Vasile Pârvan in 1913.
In 1651, the place was mentioned by the Ottoman traveler Evliya ÃÂelebi as a Tatar settlement named Kara Murat ("Black Murat", after its founder).
In 1879-1880, after the incorporation of Northern Dobruja into Romania, the village started to be settled by Romanian shepherds from Transylvania (Mocani). Germans coming from Bessarabia began settling the village from 1876. By 1918, the Germans made up the majority of the population. In the 1930s, the village was renamed Ferdinand I, after King Ferdinand I of Romania. In 1948, with the advent of the communist regime, the commune was given its current name, after the Romanian politician Mihail KogÃÂlniceanu.
Mihail KogÃÂlniceanu is home to the Gheorghe Celea Museum, the first and only Aromanian museum in Romania, founded in 2006 by Willibard ("Willy") WisoÃÂenschi of the MuÃÂata ArmânàCultural Foundation.
At the 2011 census, Mihail KogÃÂlniceanu had a population of 9,978; of those, 8,273 were Romanians (84.95%), 419 Tatars (4.30%), 246 Roma (2.53%), 108 Aromanians (1.11%), 33 Turks (0.34%), 3 Hungarians (0.03%), 3 Germans (0.03%), 642 others (6.59%), and 12 with undeclared ethnicity (0.12%). At the 2021 census, the commune had 9,103 inhabitants, of which 82.73% were Romanians, 2.68% Tatars, and 1.66% Roma.