Tutrakan (Bulgarian: Тутракан[ˈtutrɐkan], Romanian: Тurtucaia, Turkish: Turtukaya) is a town in northeastern Bulgaria, an administrative centre of the homonymous municipality, part of Silistra Province. It is situated on the right bank of the Danube opposite the Romanian town of Oltenița (to which it was linked through a ferry but the ferry does not work anymore), in the very west of Southern Dobruja, 58 km east of Rousse and 62 km west of Silistra.
^(in English) Bulgarian National Statistical Institute - towns in 2009
de la Turtucaia; Bulgarian: Битка при Тутракан, Bitka pri Tutrakan), also known as Tutrakan Epopee (Bulgarian: Тутраканска епопея, Tutrakanska epopeya)...
Tutrakan Peak (Bulgarian: връх Тутракан, romanized: vrah Tutrakan, IPA: [ˈvrɤx ˈtutrɐkɐn]) is a rocky peak of 810 m in the Levski Ridge of the Tangra Mountains...
Tutrakan Municipality (Bulgarian: Община Тутракан) is a municipality (obshtina) in Silistra Province, Northeastern Bulgaria, located along the right bank...
28 June respectively, in 1773. The Ottoman stronghold of Turtucaia (now Tutrakan), its adjacent fortifications (redoubts, retrenchments) and camps were...
Nicopolis (Nikopol), Abrittus (Razgrad), Durostorum (Silistra), Transmarisca (Tutrakan), Sexaginta Prista (Ruse) and Novae (Svishtov), all in Bulgaria today.[citation...
Before long, however, they conquered and destroyed the small fort at Tutrakan. Vlad convinced Wavrin to attack Giurgiu, saying that whenever the Ottomans...
decisive victories against the Romanian and Russians in the battles of Tutrakan and Dobrich. By September 1916, the Allies had gathered a substantial force...
battery in the 15th Artillery Regiment and took part in the capture of the Tutrakan fortress, defended by Romanian troops. In 1917, he led the 1st horsed artillery...
resistance. One week later, the Tutrakan-Balchik line had been occupied, and on 16 July Romanian patrols entered Varna. The Tutrakan-Balchik line marked the territory...
Radetski Island Skomen Island Timok Island Tsibar island Tsibritsa Island Tutrakan Island Vardim Island Vazhetoarya Island Vetren Island St. Anastasia Island...
located between the towns of Oryahovo and Svishtov. Another goes from Tutrakan to the Bulgaria–Romania border at Northern Dobruja. There also are scattered...
Rakovski's death on April 28, 1867, Hitov entered Bulgaria from Romania at Tutrakan with a band of thirty, the band's standard-bearer being Vasil Levski. With...
sometime before 2011. Lom, Nikopol, Oryahovo, Ruse, Silistra, Svishtov, Tutrakan, Vidin are river ports on the Danube river. Sea ports Ahtopol, Balchik...
reintegrate. According to information received from the town of Tutrakan, all Muslim-Turks in Tutrakan were waiting for the day when they will be "martyred" at...
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