History

   The first name under which the town was known - Murfatlar, attested in writing since 1855, is of Ottoman origin, spread throughout the neighboring area of ​​the current city. Most likely, Murfatlar comes from the word mürüvetli - generous man, with the derived form mürüvet - brave man, with an open heart, with superior qualities, meaning a man of humanity, a name that, over time, became Murfat and Murfatlar - the descendants to Murfat. In two periods - 1921-1965 and 1975-2007, the town was called Basarabi.

    However, the history of the place is much older, most of the vestiges attesting it in the late Roman period and the early medieval period. Defense waves that connect various points on the Danube bank with the Black Sea, Constanța Port area, pass through the locality - The small earth wave - sec. VI d. Ch. And the Roman camp for the defense of the Wave, the Great Earth Wave - sec. IX d. Ch., The big stone wave sec. IX d. Ch., Stone wave sec. X d. Ch. The waves, relatively continuous from west to east of the county, are not used for tourism. From the same early medieval period, when Dobrogea was again in the Byzantine Empire, comes one of the great landmarks of the city of Murfatlar, namely the Murfatlar Cave Complex, sec. X - XI AD, considered possibly the most important early Christian center in Romania.

    The written information about Murfatlar makes a leap over the centuries of hectic history of Dobrogea and reappears in the 15th century. XIX, when the inhabitation of the rural commune intensified and, together with the local population, the Mocans who came in transhumance, especially from Transylvania, and settled here, a Turkish garrison appeared in 1855, and in the following years many Crimean Tatars settled, following that, after the Romanian War of Independence, 1877-1878, the share of the Romanian population to increase. The centuries-old coexistence of various ethnic groups in Dobrogea and Murfatlar has created resilient communities full of legends, folklore and folk art that are an attraction in themselves in this area.