Early modern period map of the islandGeneral view from north, photo from the end of the 19th centuryThe bazaar
Ada Kaleh (Romanian pronunciation:[ˈadakaˈle]; from Turkish: Adakale, meaning "Island Fortress"; Hungarian: Újorsova or Ada Kaleh; Serbian and Bulgarian: Адакале, romanised:Adakale) was a small island on the Danube, located in Romania, that was submerged during the construction of the Iron Gates hydroelectric plant in 1970. The island was about 3 kilometres (1.9 mi) downstream from Orșova and was less than two kilometers long and approximately half a kilometer wide (1.75 x 0.4–0.5 km). Ada Kaleh was inhabited by Turkish Muslims from all parts of the Ottoman Empire,[1] and there were also family ties to the Turkish Muslim populations of Vidin and Ruse, Bulgaria due to exogamic marriages.[2]
The isle of Ada Kaleh is probably the most evocative victim of the Iron Gate dam's construction. Once an Ottoman Turkish exclave that changed hands multiple times in the 18th and 19th centuries, it had a mosque and numerous twisting alleys, and was known as a free port and a smuggler's nest. The islanders produced Turkish delight, baklava, rose water, fig and rose marmalade, and rose oil, and were well-known for Turkish oil wrestling. The existence of Ada Kaleh was overlooked at the 1878 Congress of Berlin peace talks surrounding the Russo-Turkish War, known in Romania as the War of Independence, which allowed the island to remain a de jure possession of the Ottoman Sultan until 1923.
^Vainovski-Mihai, Irina and Grigore, George (January 2019). "From Dobrudja to Ada-Kaleh: A Bridge between Empires". Romano-Arabica.
^"Ada Kaleh, an Ottoman Atlantis on the Danube". 25 February 2015.
AdaKaleh (Romanian pronunciation: [ˈada kaˈle]; from Turkish: Adakale, meaning "Island Fortress"; Hungarian: Újorsova or AdaKaleh; Serbian and Bulgarian:...
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for Turkey. By the 1960s, inhabitants living in the Turkish exclave of AdaKaleh were forced to leave the island when it was destroyed in order to build...
words. The Danube Turkish dialect was once spoken by Turks inhabiting AdaKaleh. It was based on Ottoman Turkish with Hungarian, Serbian, Romanian, and...
County. Historically, the Turks also formed a majority on the island of AdaKaleh, which was submerged during the construction of the Iron Gates hydroelectric...
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(including the Danube Delta). During the negotiations, the Danubian island of AdaKaleh was not discussed. Hungarian journalist Emil Lengyel declared "the island...
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the Pandurs were divided. In 1814, some joined a raid by pirates from AdaKaleh, storming through Mehedinți County and Gorj, though they later sought...
the treaties' outcome. Back in the country in 1815, Tudor learned that AdaKaleh Ottoman garrison, who roamed Mehedinți and Gorj, had also destroyed his...
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