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Silistra
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11,516
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13092005
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107
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7600
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0857
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44° 3'
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26° 37'
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Georgi Georgiev
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(, part of
Silistra Province . It is situated on the right bank of the
Danube opposite the
Romania n town of
Olteniţa , in the very west of
Southern Dobruja , 58 km east of
Rousse and 62 km west of
Silistra .
The town was founded by the
Ancient Romans in the end of the first half of the
1st Century AD under the name ''Transmarisca''. The settlement was part of the Roman military boundary in the 1st and
3rd Century and reached its apogee in the
4th Century , when, under the personal management of
Diocletian , it was made one of the largest strongholds of the Danubian
Limes .
The ancient town and fortress were destroyed in the beginning of the
7th Century and the modern town carrying its present name emerged in the end of the century, remaining a military centre through the
Middle Ages as part of the
Bulgarian Empire , which was conquered by the
Ottomans in the late
14th Century .
Tutrakan was liberated of
Ottoman Rule during the
Russo-Turkish War Of 1877-78 to become part of the
Kingdom Of Bulgaria . After the
Second Balkan War , it was incorporated, along with all of Southern Dobruja, in Romania until
1940 , when the pre-
WWII Treaty Of Craiova returned the territory to Bulgaria.
During
World War I , the town, then part of Romania, was the site of the important
Battle Of Tutrakan during which Bulgarian and
German forces under
August Von Mackensen defeated decisively the
Romanian Army .
