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The Dobruja Plateau or Dobrogea Plateau (Romanian: Podișul Dobrogei) is a plateau in eastern Romania located in the Dobruja (Romanian: Dobrogea) region, surrounded to the north and west by the Danube and to the east by the Danube Delta and the Black Sea. [1] Its average altitude is around 200–300 metres, higher in the northern part.
Dobruja (dark green) within Bulgaria and Romania (light green), both in Southeast Europe. Coat of arms of the Romanian Dobruja. Dobruja or Dobrudja (US: / ˈ d oʊ b r ʊ dʒ ə /; [1] Bulgarian: Добруджа, romanized: Dobrudzha or Dobrudža; Romanian: Dobrogea, pronounced [ˈdobrodʒe̯a] ⓘ or [doˈbrodʒe̯a]; Ukrainian: Задунав'я, romanized: Zadunav"ya; Turkish: Dobruca ...
Tatars of Romania Distribution of Tatars in Romania (2011 census) Democratic Union of Tatar Turkish Muslims of Romania. The Tatars of Romania, Tatars of Dobruja or Dobrujan Tatars [1] [a] are a Turkic ethnic group that have been present in Romania since the 13th century.
Northern Dobruja (Romanian: Dobrogea de Nord or simply Dobrogea; Bulgarian: Северна Добруджа, Severna Dobrudzha) is the part of Dobruja within the borders of Romania. It lies between the lower Danube River and the Black Sea, bordered in the south by Southern Dobruja, which is a part of Bulgaria.
The Dobruja Campaign was a major operation during the Romanian Campaign of World War I.It took place between 2 September and 25 October 1916 between a joint Bulgarian–German–Ottoman force, consisting mainly of the Bulgarian Third Army, and a Romanian–Russian force.
Southern Dobruja or South Dobruja (Bulgarian: Южна Добруджа, romanized: Yuzhna Dobrudzha or simply Добруджа, Dobrudzha; Romanian: Dobrogea de Sud or Dobrogea Nouă, lit. ' New Dobruja ' ), also the Quadrilateral (Romanian: Cadrilater ), is an area of north-eastern Bulgaria comprising Dobrich and Silistra provinces , part of ...
Built in 1910 by King Carol I, the Grand Mosque of Constanța (originally the Carol I Mosque) is the seat of the Mufti, the spiritual leader of the 55,000 Muslims (Turks and Tatars by origin) who live along the coast of the Dobrogea region. The building combines Neo-Byzantine and Romanian architectural elements, making it one of the most ...
While most Dobrujan Germans inhabited Northern Dobruja (modern Romania), some settled in Southern Dobruja (modern Bulgaria, but part of Romania between 1913 and 1940). The most significant Dobrujan German colony in Bulgaria was founded in Dobrevo (Ali Anife Kalfa) in 1903 by German Roman Catholics from the Crimea and Kherson.