Bolintin-Vale

Bolintin-Vale is a town in Giurgiu County, Muntenia, Romania with a population of 12,806. The town administers three villages: Crivina, Malu Spart, and Suseni. It is the second largest city in the county; proximity to the capital, Bucharest, has helped the local economy. It officially became a town in 1989, as a result of the Romanian rural systematization program.

The town is situated in the Wallachian Plain, at an altitude of 100 m, on the banks of the Sabar River.

Demographics
According to the 2011 census, Bolintin-Vale was mainly populated by ethnic Romanians, who made up 79.2% of the total population of 12,929, even though it had a significant Romani minority (19.8%). In fact, Bolintin-Vale was at time the Romanian town with the fourth largest percentage of Roma people. Many of the Romani are refugees from neighbouring Bolintin-Deal, who settled here after the ethnic clashes from 1991. As of 2011, the population breakdown of the town and the three adjacent villages was as follows: Bolintin-Vale 7,376, Malu Spart 3,126, Crivina 817, and Suseni 508.

At the 2021 census, the town had a population of 12,806, of which 73,2% were Romanians and 14.63% Roma.

Natives

 * Dimitrie Bolintineanu (1819 or 1825 – 1872), poet, diplomat, and politician
 * Valeriu Lupu (born 1991), footballer
 * Florentin Matei (born 1993), footballer