Babadag is a town in the Tulcea county, Romania; situated on a small lake formed by the Taitza river among the densely wooded highlands of the northern Dobrudja. The Taitza Lake is divided only by a strip of marshland from Razim Lake, a broad landlocked sheet of water which opens on the Black Sea. Babadag was a market for the wool and mutton of the Dobrudja.
Demographics
Babadag has a population of 10,878. In 1900 its population was 3,500.
History
It was founded by Bayezid I, sultan of the Turks from 1389 to 1403. It occasionally served as the winter headquarters of the Turks in their wars with Russia, and was bombarded by the Russians in 1854.
The post-war Soviet occupation led to the formation of a Communist "people's republic" in 1947 and the abdication of the king.
In 2000, the center-left Social Democratic Party (PSD) became Romania's leading party, governing with the support of the Democratic Union of Hungarians in Romania (UDMR).
Although Romania completed accession talks with the European Union (EU) in December 2004, it must continue to address rampant corruption - while invigorating lagging economic and democratic reforms - before it can achieve its hope of joining the EU, tentatively set for 2007.
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