Tutrakan
| Tutrakan (Тутракан) | |||||
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 Bulgaria
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| Oblast : | Silistra | ||||
| Residents : | 7998 (December 31, 2016) | ||||
| Coordinates : | 44 ° 3 ' N , 26 ° 37' E | ||||
| Height : | 107 m | ||||
| Postal code : | 7600 | ||||
| Telephone code : | (+359) 0866 | ||||
| License plate : | CC | ||||
| Administration (status: since November 2007) | |||||
| Mayor : | Georgi Georgiev | ||||
| Ruling party : | GERB | ||||
| Website : | www.obs.tutrakan.org | ||||
Tutrakan ( Bulgarian Тутракан ) is a town in the municipality of the same name in the Silistra district / Oblast in northern Bulgaria . The city is located on the right bank of the Danube , opposite the Romanian city of Oltenița .
location
Tutrakan is located on the high bank of the Danube, approx. 433 km from its confluence with the Black Sea . The city is located around 380 km northeast of the Bulgarian capital Sofia , around 120 km southeast of the Romanian capital Bucharest , 60 km northeast of Russe , 62 km west of Silistra and 70 km north of Razgrad .
history
The city was founded under Diocletian under the name Transmarisca .
"Transmarisca" is also a titular bishopric of the Catholic Church . But it is currently not occupied (vacant).
The city of Tutrakan, then called Turtukaj, was in the course of the first Russo-Turkish War 1768–74 and the second Russo-Turkish War 1806–12 by the Russian army under the leadership of the future Marshal Alexander Vasilyevich Suvorov on May 10, 1773 and on May 19, 1810 captured by Russian troops led by Andreas von Saß . Russia returned Tutrakan to the Ottoman Empire in the 1812 Bucharest Peace Treaty .
As a result of the Russo-Turkish War of 1877/1878, Tutrakan was assigned to Bulgaria in the Peace Treaty of San Stefano . After the Second Balkan War , Bulgaria had to cede the city and fortress of Tutrakan to Romania due to the peace treaty of Bucharest in 1913.
During the First World War the Romanians referred to the fortress Tutrakan, now called Turtucaia , as their impregnable " Verdun on the Danube". However, after only a short siege, the city and fortress of Tutrakan were captured by German and Bulgarian troops on September 6, 1916. After the war, Bulgaria had to cede the city and fortress of Tutrakan to Romania in 1919 due to the Treaty of Neuilly-sur-Seine .
The next (and last) change of state affiliation of the city of Tutrakan took place on September 7, 1940 through the Treaty of Craiova between the Tsarist Bulgaria and the Kingdom of Romania . With that Romania gave back the southern third of the area of Dobruja - and thus also Tutrakan - to Bulgaria. After the Second World War , the Craiova Treaty was ratified by the Paris Peace Conference in 1946.
The city has given its name to Tutrakan Peak , a mountain on Livingston Island in Antarctica , since 2005 . Under its ancient name, it is also eponymous for the Transmarisca Bay of Krogh Island in the Antarctic archipelago of the Biscoe Islands .
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ AG Jeltschaninow (А. Г. Елчанинов): Александр Васильевич Суворов . Retrieved May 7, 2016 (Russian).
- ↑ PM Adrianov: Русско-Турецкая война 1806–12 гг .: Второй период войны: с 1809 по 1812 г. Retrieved May 7, 2016 (Russian).
- ^ Tony Jaques: Dictionary of battles and sieges. A guide to 8500 battles from antiquity through the twenty-first century , Vol. 3: P-Z . Greenwood Press, Westport 2007, ISBN 978-0-313-33539-6 , p. 1046.
- ↑ Harry Graf Kessler : Das Tagebuch , Vol. 5: 1914-1916 . Edited by Günter Riederer and Ulrich Ott. Cotta, Stuttgart 2008, ISBN 978-3-7681-9815-8 , p. 607.
- ^ Edgar Hösch : History of the Balkan countries. From the early days to the present . CH Beck, Munich, 4th edition 2002, ISBN 3-406-49019-0 , p. 223.