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2 Mai | |
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Village | |
 The beach at 2 Mai | |
| Etymology: Romanian coup d'état of 2 May 1864 | |
  2 Mai Location in Romania | |
| Coordinates:43°47′N28°35′E / 43.783°N 28.583°E /43.783; 28.583 | |
| Country | Romania |
| County | Constanța |
| Commune | Limanu |
| Population (2011) | |
• Total | 2,848 |
2 Mai (Romanian pronunciation:[dojmaj], "2 May") (according to theSocialist Republic of Romania records) orDouă Mai (according to the founding decree signed byMihail Kogălniceanu in 1887) is a village in theLimanucommune,Constanța County,Dobrogea,Romania. It is found on the shoreline at a distance of 6 km (3.7 mi) north ofVama Veche and 5 km (3.1 mi) south ofMangalia. Doi Mai is also a summer vacation destination.[1][2][3]
Its name (thenDouă Mai ) was chosen to celebrate 2 May 1864, whenDomnitorAlexandru Ioan Cuza dissolved the Legislative Assembly (Adunarea Legislativă) of theUnited Principalities of Moldavia and Wallachia to promote his reforms. Nine years before the founding of the village,Northern Dobruja was given to Romania through the treaty of Berlin after it had been taken from theOttoman Empire at the end of theRusso-Turkish War of 1877–1878.[citation needed]
Russian voluntary eunuchs of theOld Believers sect, being persecuted in their homeland of theRussian Empire, found refuge here in the 19th century, amongst theGreek fishermen, Romanian shepherds andTatar horse breeders, who had huts and rudimentary houses in the area.[4]
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