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    Dobruja or Dobrudja (US: /ˈdoʊbrʊdʒə/; Bulgarian: Добруджа, romanized: Dobrudzha or Dobrudža; Romanian: Dobrogea, pronounced [ˈdobrodʒe̯a] or [doˈbrodʒe̯a];...
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    Southern Dobruja or South Dobruja (Bulgarian: Южна Добруджа, romanized: Yuzhna Dobrudzha or simply Добруджа, Dobrudzha; Romanian: Dobrogea de Sud or Dobrogea...
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    Northern Dobruja (Romanian: Dobrogea de Nord or simply Dobrogea; Bulgarian: Северна Добруджа, Severna Dobrudzha) is the part of Dobruja within the borders...
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    The Despotate of Dobruja or Principality of Karvuna (Bulgarian: Добруджанско деспотство or Карвунско княжество; Romanian: Despotatul Dobrogei or Țara...
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    The Tatars of Romania, Tatars of Dobruja or Dobrujan Tatars are a Turkic ethnic group that have been present in Romania since the 13th century. According...
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    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...
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    Tatar-Turkish population in Dobruja. They were brought from Syria to Dobruja in the 19th century. There were Arabs brought from Syria to Dobruja by the Ottomans in...
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    letter ⟨Ç⟩ is rarely heard because authentic speakers of Tatar spoken in Dobruja spell it /ş/ as letter ⟨Ş⟩. As the written language most often follows...
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    of some 0.15% of the population. Of these, 81.1% were recorded in the Dobruja region of the country's southeast, near the Black Sea, in the counties...
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    ruler to unite the local tribes. He also conquered the Greek colonies in Dobruja and the neighbouring peoples as far as the Middle Danube and the Balkan...
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    forced to cede the southern part of Bessarabia in exchange for Northern Dobruja. The kingdom's territory during the reign of King Carol I, between 13 (O...
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    in the region of Dobruja. Most of the Crimean Tatars, living in Romania and Bulgaria nowadays, left the Crimean peninsula for Dobruja after the annexation...
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  • The Dobruja Army (Russian: Добруджанская армия, Romanian: Armata de Dobrogea) was a World War I Russian, Romanian and Serbian field army that fought on...
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    Treaty of Craiova (category History of Dobruja)
    Romania. Under its terms, Romania had to allow Bulgaria to retake Southern Dobruja, which Romania had gained after the 1913 Second Balkan War. Bulgaria had...
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    defeated, losing most of Macedonia to Serbia and Greece, and Southern Dobruja to Romania. The result was that even countries which benefited from the...
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    The Battle of Dobruja was fought during the Russo-Turkish War on 8 April to 4 September 1809 between Russian Empire and the Ottoman Empire. The Russian...
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    Internal Dobrujan Revolutionary Organisation (category History of Dobruja)
    Bulgarian nationalist and revolutionary organisation active in Romanian Dobruja from 1923 to 1940. It was labeled a terrorist organization by the Romanian...
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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...
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    The Southern Dobruja Offensive was the opening action of the Romanian invasion of Bulgaria during the Second Balkan War of 1913. At the time of the invasion...
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  • followed by the Romanian War of Independence, the inclusion of Northern Dobruja and the transfer of the southern part of Bessarabia to the Russian Empire...
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  • Theodore of Dobruja was a Bulgarian noble. He was brother of Balik the founder of the Despotate of Dobruja, and his successor Dobrotitsa. In 1346, Theodore...
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  • of this Pontic Scythian kingdom, in the 4th century BCE, Crimea and the Dobruja region started being called "Little Scythia" (Ancient Greek: Μικρά Σκυθία...
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    Transylvania to Hungary. In September 1940, Bulgaria demanded Southern Dobruja from Romania with German and Italian support, leading to the Treaty of...
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    passes through the historical region of Dobruja, dividing it into Northern Dobruja in Romania and Southern Dobruja in Bulgaria. The land border was first...
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    sections, Muntenia (Greater Wallachia) and Oltenia (Lesser Wallachia). Dobruja could sometimes be considered a third section due to its proximity and...
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    The Metropolis of Wallachia and Dobruja, headquartered in Bucharest, Romania, is a metropolis of the Romanian Orthodox Church. The Metropolis of Ungro-Wallachia...
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    with Wallachia, was pressured into exchanging those territories for the Dobruja. In 1917, in the wake of the Russian Revolution, the area constituted itself...
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    corresponding to the modern-day regions of Northern Dobruja (part of Romania) and Southern Dobruja (part of Bulgaria). According to Hippolytus of Rome...
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    regions at various times during the late 19th and 20th centuries, including Dobruja in 1878, and Transylvania in 1918. These regions are part of Romania today:...
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    saw large influxes of Muslim refugees—200,000 Crimean Tartars fleeing to Dobruja. Between 1783 and 1913, approximately 5–7 million refugees arrived into...
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