Tulcea

Tulcea is a metropolis in Dobruja, Romania. It is the administrative center of Tulcea County, and had a population of 73,707 as of 2011. One village, Tudor Vladimirescu, is run by means of the city. Tulcea changed into founded inside the 7th century B.C. Below the name of Aegyssus, mentioned inside the files of Diodorus of Sicily. In his Ex Ponto, Ovid recorded a local subculture that ascribed its name to a legendary founder, Aegisos the Caspian. After the fights from 12-15 A.D. The Romans conquered the town. They rebuilt it after their plans, their method and architectural imaginative and prescient, reorganizing it. The fortified town was noted as past due as the tenth century, in documents inclusive of Notitia Episcopatuum or De Thematibus.

Under Byzantine rule starting with the 5th century A.D. The city became deserted with the aid of the primary half of of the 7th century because of the Barbarian invasions. The former settlement's territory fell beneath the guideline of the Bulgarian Empire. Inhabitation changed into restored in the 2nd 1/2 of the 10th century, because the Byzantines constructed a castle on the spot after reconquering the location. The fortress turned into soon destroyed in 1064 through an attack of the Uzes, however some inhabitation persisted. A agreement, large than the only within the eleventh century, is archaeologically attested starting with the 14th century. The Ottoman rule changed into imposed around 1420, and could last for the following four centuries.