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Snagov (population: 6,041) is a Commune located 40 km north of Bucharest in Ilfov county, Romania . According to the 2002 census, 99.2% of the population is Ethnic Romanian and 0.4% are Roma . HISTORY Snagov village was built around the Snagov monastery. The first record of it is in a document dated 1408 from the court of Mircea Cel Batran . Nowadays, it is a popular holiday resort and many villas were built on the shores of the lake, especially after the Romanian Revolution Of 1989 . In 2002 , the Romanian government decided to build a Disneyland -style park named "Dracula Park" in Snagov, but the project's future appears to be uncertain as of 2005 . The reason for the potential location of the park is that, Vlad Tepes , the person on whom Bram Stoker 's book '' Dracula '' is based, is said to be buried there. NAME The name is of South Slavic origin (probably Bulgarian ), from the word ''sneg'' (meaning "snow") TOURIST SITES
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