Babadag

Babadag is a town in the Tulcea county, Romania; situated on a small lake formed by the Taitza river among the densely wooded highlands of the northern Dobrudja. The Taitza Lake is divided only by a strip of marshland from Razim Lake, a broad landlocked sheet of water which opens on the Black Sea. Babadag was a market for the wool and mutton of the Dobrudja.

Demographics

Babadag has a population of 10,878. In 1900 its population was 3,500.

History

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.