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See also: town in the department of See also: Tulcea, Rumania; situated on a small lake formed by the See also: river Taitza among the densely wooded See also: highlands of the See also: northern Dobrudja
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Pop
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(1900) about 3500
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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 Black See also: Sea
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See also: Babadag is a market for the wool and mutton of the Dobrudja
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It was founded by Bayezid I., sultan of the See also: Turks from 1389 to 1403
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It occasion-ally served as the 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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