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BABADAG, or BABATAG

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 91 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BABADAG, or BABATAG  , a See also:town in the See also:department of See also:Tulcea, See also:Rumania; situated on a small See also:lake formed by the See also:river Taitza among the densely wooded See also:highlands of the See also:northern See also:Dobrudja . Pop . (1900) about 3500 . The Taitza lake is divided only by a See also:strip of marshland from Lake Razim, a broad landlocked See also:sheet of See also:water which opens on the See also:Black See also:Sea . See also:Babadag is a See also:market for the See also:wool and mutton of the Dobrudja . It was founded by Bayezid I., See also:sultan of the See also:Turks from 1389 to 1403 . It occasion-ally served as the See also:winter headquarters of the Turks in their See also:wars with See also:Russia, and was bombarded by the Russians in 1854 .

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