Northern Dobruja
Northern Dobruja (Romanian: Dobrogea de Nord or simply Dobrogea; Bulgarian: [Северна Добруджа] Error: {{Lang}}: text has italic markup (help), Severna Dobrudzha) is the part of Dobruja that is in Romania. It is between the lower Danube river and the Black Sea. To the south is Southern Dobruja, the Bulgarian part of Dobruja.
Geography
The territory of Northern Dobruja now forms the counties of Constanța and Tulcea. It has a total area of 15,570 km2 and a population of slightly under 900,000.[1]
Cities
Rivers
Lakes
Danube Delta
The Danube Delta is made of many lakes. The most important ones are:
- Roșu
- Isac
- Gorgova
- Furtuna
- Ledeanca
- Tatanir
- Merhel
- Matița
- Uzlina
- Dranov
- Lumina
- Puiu
- Puiuleț
Demographics
Ethnic composition
The table below shows Romanian statistics throughout the years:
| Ethnicity | 1878[2] | 1880[3] | 1899[3] | 1913[4] | 19301[5] | 1956[6] | 1966[6] | 1977[6] | 1992[6] | 2002[6] | 2011[7] |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All | 225,692 | 139,671 | 258,242 | 380,430 | 437,131 | 593,659 | 702,461 | 863,348 | 1,019,766 | 971,643 | 897,165 |
| Romanian | 46,504 (21%) | 43,671 (31%) | 118,919 (46%) | 216,425 (56.8%) | 282,844 (64.7%) | 514,331 (86.6%) | 622,996 (88.7%) | 784,934 (90.9%) | 926,608 (90.8%) | 883,620 (90.9%) | 751,250 (83.7%) |
| Bulgarian | 30,177 (13,3%) | 24,915 (17%) | 38,439 (14%) | 51,149 (13.4%) | 42,070 (9.6%) | 749 (0.13%) | 524 (0.07%) | 415 (0.05%) | 311 (0.03%) | 135 (0.01%) | 58 (0.01%) |
| Turkish | 48,783 (21,6%) | 18,624 (13%) | 12,146 (4%) | 20,092 (5.3%) | 21,748 (5%) | 11,994 (2%) | 16,209 (2.3%) | 21,666 (2.5%) | 27,685 (2.7%) | 27,580 (2.8%) | 22,500 (2.5%) |
| Tatar | 71,146 (31,5%) | 29,476 (21%) | 28,670 (11%) | 21,350 (5.6%) | 15,546 (3.6%) | 20,239 (3.4%) | 21,939 (3.1%) | 22,875 (2.65%) | 24,185 (2.4%) | 23,409 (2.4%) | 19,720 (2.2%) |
| Russian-Lipovan | 12,748 (5,6%) | 8,250 (6%) | 12,801 (5%) | 35,859 (9.4%) | 26,210 (6%)² | 29,944 (5%) | 30,509 (4.35%) | 24,098 (2.8%) | 26,154 (2.6%) | 21,623 (2.2%) | 13,910 (1.6%) |
| Ruthenian
(Ukrainian from 1956) |
455 (0.3%) | 13,680 (5%) | 33 (0.01%) | 7,025 (1.18%) | 5,154 (0.73%) | 2,639 (0.3%) | 4,101 (0.4%) | 1,465 (0.1%) | 1,177 (0.1%) | ||
| Germans | 1,134 (0,5%) | 2,461 (1.7%) | 8,566 (3%) | 7,697 (2%) | 12,023 (2.75%) | 735 (0.12%) | 599 (0.09%) | 648 (0.08%) | 677 (0.07%) | 398 (0.04%) | 166 (0.02%) |
| Greek | 3,480 (1,6%) | 4,015 (2.8%) | 8,445 (3%) | 9,999 (2.6%) | 7,743 (1.8%) | 1,399 (0.24%) | 908 (0.13%) | 635 (0.07%) | 1,230 (0.12%) | 2,270 (0.23%) | 1,447 (0.16%) |
| Roma | 702 (0.5%) | 2,252 (0.87%) | 3,263 (0.9%) | 3,831 (0.88%) | 1,176 (0.2%) | 378 (0.05%) | 2,565 (0.3%) | 5,983 (0.59%) | 8,295 (0.85%) | 11,977 (1.3%) |
- 1According to the 1926–1938 Romanian administrative division (counties of Constanța and Tulcea), which excluded a part of today's Romania (chiefly the communes of Ostrov and Lipnița, now part of Constanța County) and included a part of today's Bulgaria (parts of General Toshevo and Krushari municipalities)
- 2Only Russians. (Russians and Lipovans counted separately)
Symbols
Northern Dobruja is represented by two dolphins in the coat of arms of Romania.
Starting with 2015, Romania observes Dobruja Day on November 14. This day is the day in 1878 when Northern Dobruja became part of the Kingdom of Romania after the Treaty of Berlin.[8]
Northern Dobruja Media
Dobruja within the historical regions of Romania
Protected archaeological and natural areas in Romanian Dobruja.
References
- ↑ 2011 census results per county, cities and towns Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Utilities at line 38: bad argument #1 to 'ipairs' (table expected, got nil).
- ↑ K. Karpat, : Correspondance Politique des Consuls. Turguie (Tulqa). 1 (1878) 280-82
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 G. Dănescu, Dobrogea (La Dobroudja). Étude de Géographie physique et ethnographique
- ↑ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Utilities at line 38: bad argument #1 to 'ipairs' (table expected, got nil).
- ↑ Calculated from results of the 1930 census per county, taken from Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Utilities at line 38: bad argument #1 to 'ipairs' (table expected, got nil).
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 Calculated from statistics for the counties of Tulcea and Constanța from Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Utilities at line 38: bad argument #1 to 'ipairs' (table expected, got nil).
- ↑ 2011 census results per county, cities and towns Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Utilities at line 38: bad argument #1 to 'ipairs' (table expected, got nil).
- ↑ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Utilities at line 38: bad argument #1 to 'ipairs' (table expected, got nil).