Popesti-Leordeni

Popesti-Leordeni is a metropolis in Ilfov County, Romania, 9 km south of Bucharest, despite the fact that from the northern edge of the metropolis to the southern fringe of Bucharest the space is much less than one hundred m. The metropolis's population in 2011 become 21,895 population. Most of its population trip to Bucharest, with Popesti-Leordeni being seen as a satellite town of the Romanian capital.

The villages have been first attested for the duration of the 16th century: Leordeni changed into a site of the Baleanu circle of relatives of Wallachian boyars, even as Popesti turned into included in the lands belonging to ancestors of the chronicler Radu Popescu. The latter changed into inherited with the aid of the Phanariote nobleman acknowledged underneath the call Alexandru Conduratu, who settled it with Bulgarians from round Nikopol and from the Banat; the newly created locality became named Popesti-Conduratu or Pavlicheni, in connection with "Paulicians" a subculture distinctive the Roman Catholic organization of the Bulgarian network with the aid of the names in their ancestors.