Colentina, Bucharest

A local folk etymology says that the name is derived from "colea-n-tină" (there, in the mud), this being the answer given by a spătar to Matei Basarab, who asked the former where he had defeated the Ottoman army.

An Austrian map of 1791 shows the village as being located at the crossroad of the routes leading to Fundeni, Afumați, Ștefănești, and Pipera, with the high road bound for Bucharest.

Due to this, in 1837, the ocârmuitor of Ilfov County asked the hegumen of the monastery to donate plots for the peasants on the domains to build their houses according to a plan.

[3] During the 1821 revolts that preceded the Greek War of Independence, Alexander Ypsilantis and the Filiki Eteria, coming from Moldavia settled on the field on the Bucharest-ward bank of Colentina.

[5] The neighbourhood suffered a lot of modifications in the mid 1970s and 1980s when houses were replaced with 8-to-10-storey apartment blocks, like in Tei, Obor, and Calea Moșilor and has been recently the home of Arab and Chinese immigrants to Romania.