Dobruja or Dobrudja is a historical region in the Balkans that has been divided since the 19th century between the territories of Bulgaria and Romania.
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15 Facts About Dobruja
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Dobruja is a windy region once known for its windmills.
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Territory of Dobruja has been inhabited by humans since Middle and Upper Palaeolithic, as the remains at Babadag, Slava Rusa and Enisala demonstrate.
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Dobruja became part of the client kingdom of the Odrysians, while the Greek cities on the coast came under direct rule of the governor of Macedonia.
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Between 513 and 520, the region participated in a revolt against Anastasius I Its leader, Vitalian, native of Zaldapa in Southern Dobruja, defeated the Byzantine general Hypatius near Kaliakra.
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Dobruja remained under loose Byzantine control, and was reorganised during the reign of Constantine IV as Thema Scythia.
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Many early medieval Bulgar stone inscriptions were found in Dobruja, including historical narratives, inventories of armament or buildings, and commemorative texts.
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Dobruja occupied Dobruja in 968 and moved the capital of Kievan Rus' to Pereyaslavets, in the north of the region.
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In 1000, a Byzantine army commanded by Theodorokanos reconquered the whole of Dobruja, organizing the region as the Strategia of Dorostolon and, after 1020, as Paristrion.
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In 1241, the first Tatar groups, under Kadan, invaded Dobruja starting a century long history of turmoil in the region.
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In 1278, after a new Tatar invasion in Dobruja, Ivailo was forced to retreat to the strong fortress of Silistra, where he withstood a three-month siege.
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In 1850, the scholar Ion Ionescu de la Brad, wrote in a study on Dobruja, ordered by the Ottoman government, that Bulgarians came to the region "in the last twenty years or so".
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In 1878, the statistics of the Russian governor of Dobruja, Bieloserkovitsch, showed a number of 4,750 Bulgarian "family chiefs" in the northern half of the region.
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However, the ethnic Greeks and most Romanians in Northern Dobruja remained under the authority of the Greek Archdiocese of Tulca.
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