Babadag is a town in the department of
Tulcea[?],
Romania; situated on a small lake formed by the
Taitza river[?] among the densely wooded highlands of the northern
Dobrudja[?]. Pop. (
1900) about 3500. The
Taitza lake[?] is divided only by a strip of marshland from
Lake Razim[?], a broad landlocked sheet of water which opens on the
Black Sea. Babadag is a market for the
wool and
mutton of the Dobrudja. It was founded by
Bayezid I., sultan of the
Turks from
1389 to
1403. It occasionally served as the winter headquarters of the Turks in their wars with
Russia, and was bombarded by the Russians in
1854.
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