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Under the former Egreta restaurant in Constanța, excavations in the 1980s opened a Roman tomb of the fourth century. On the walls is an orant: a figure with raised arms, a prayer g…
In 1864 the European Commission of the Danube paid for a cemetery on land given by Sulina’s town hall. Officials, sailors and residents of dozens of nationalities are buried here:…
In the Municipal Cemetery of Constanța, on Eliberării Street, a plot is reserved for German soldiers fallen in the two wars. Some of the remains first lay at Mircea Vodă, then were…
Beside the former station at Mircea Vodă are buried more than 8,000 soldiers of the First World War: Romanians, Germans, Russians, Bulgarians, Serbs, Austrians and Poles. Many had…
The courtyard of the Esmahan Sultan Mosque in Mangalia also includes the Muslim cemetery, kept here for more than 350 years. Among the slabs is the tomb of Ali Efendi, beside stone…
Babadag, from Turkish Baba Dağı - Father's Mountain - takes its name from Sari Saltuk Baba, the dervish who arrived around 1300. The town is attested from the thirteenth century. T…
Hagieni, near the border with Bulgaria, was called Hagilar: a village of hajjis, people who had made the pilgrimage to Mecca. The Tatar community settled here around 1824 and kept…
In the village of Tătaru, the cemetery on the slope is the place where the local Muslim community has buried its dead for generations. Dobrogea has held Tatars since the fifteenth…
In 1962, during extension works at the “Mihai Eminescu” National College on Boulevard Ferdinand no. 30, the rooms of a basilica crypt from the fifth and sixth centuries came to lig…
On a higher place in the Orthodox cemetery of Medgidia stands a pyramid of white marble. Beneath it are 224 soldiers of the 1st Serbian Volunteer Division, fallen in 1916 at Pietre…
Ali-Gazi Pasha raised his mosque in Babadag in the seventeenth century. His tomb stands beside the house of worship, in the town centre, on the route you take anyway if you come to…
Sari Saltuk Baba, a dervish who came from Sinop, died in 1297 or 1298. His tomb in Babadag is a place of pilgrimage for Muslims in Dobrogea; tradition ties him to the road of Islam…
In 1988, on Mircea Street, at the excavation for some blocks, Constantin Chera and Virgil Lungu came upon a painted tomb from the second half of the fourth century, in the area of…
Among the graves at Sulina is the slab of Gheorghios Kontoguris, born in 1838 in Kefalonia, dead in 1871, at 33. Locally it is said that he is the only pirate buried in Romania — a…
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