Dofteana

Dofteana is a commune in Bacau County, Romania. It consists of 7 villages: Bogata, Cucuieți, Dofteana, Haghiac, Larga, Seaca and Stefan Voda. At the 2011 census, of the population for whom information had been to be had, ninety 8.6% were Romanians and 1.3% Roma. Romani humans constitute one in every of Romania's biggest minorities. According to the 2011 census, they number 621,573 humans or 3.08% of the whole populace, being the second one-largest ethnic minority in Romania after Hungarians.

There are exceptional estimates approximately the size of the overall population of people with Romani ancestry in Romania, varying from four.6 percent to over 10 percent of the populace, due to the fact quite a few people of Romani descent do now not claim themselves Roma. The commune is located around confluence between the Trotuș and Dofteana rivers, in a lovely herbal place. It turned into first attested in a report of 1436, issued by the hospodar Stefanita, who donated to his adviser Babor Plopescu six villages at the Trotus and Tazlau valleys, considered one of which turned into Dofteana, known as Dohtana in that period.