Copşa Mică
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|leader_name=Mihalache Daniel Tudor
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'''Copşa Mică''' ({{lang-de|Kleinkopisch}}, {{lang-hu|Kiskapus}}) is a town in [[Sibiu County]], [[Transylvania]], [[Romania]], located north of [[Sibiu]], 33 km east of [[Blaj]], and 12 km southwest of [[Mediaş]]. According to the town's website, its population in 2000 was 5189, down 23% from its population in [[History of Romania since 1989|1989]], the year [[Romanian Revolution of 1989|communism collapsed in Romania]].
[[Image:Copsa Mica IMG 5540.jpg|left|200px|thumb|Factory in Copsa Mica]]
The town is best known for its status (in the 1990s) as one of the most [[Air pollution|polluted]] in Europe. This was due to the emissions of two factories in the area:
*One, open from 1936 to 1993, produced [[soot|carbon black]] for dyes; its emissions permeated the area for nearly sixty years, leaving soot on homes, trees, animals, and everything else in the area. The stain from these decades of deposits are still visible.
*The other source of the pollution, less visible but with even more serious effects to the health of the town's residents, was Sometra, a [[smelter]] whose emissions have contributed to significantly higher incidence of lung disease and impotence, along with a [[life expectancy]] nine years below Romania's average.
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==Politics==
The Copşa Mică City Council, elected in the 2004 local government elections, is made up of 15 councillors, with the following party composition:
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| [[Justice and Truth Alliance]]
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| [[Social Democratic Party (Romania)|Social Democratic Party]]
| style="text-align: right" | '''4'''
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| [[Democratic Union of Hungarians in Romania]]
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==External links==
{{commonscat|Copşa Mică}}
* [http://www.copsa-mica.ro/ Town's official website] (in [[Romanian language|Romanian]])
* [http://www.copsa-mica.org/ More detailed information about Copsa Mica and it's nightmare history]
* [http://www.unido.org/Data/Project/Project.cfm?c=4578 1993 project] funded by [[United Nations Industrial Development Organization|UNIDO]] to assist in the establishment of cleaner production practices at Sometra
* [http://www.roconsulboston.com/Pages/InfoPages/Businesspages/CopsaMica.html Satellite photos of Copşa Mică in 1986 and 2004]
* [http://www.fragilecologies.com/july22_05.html fragilecologies.com: The People and Pollution of Copsa Mica, Romania]
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[[Category:Cities in Romania]]
[[Category:Sibiu County]]
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