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

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