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Kiliya, Romanian: Chilia, Polish: Kilia; also referred to as Kiliya or Novo Kilia/Kiliya) is a small city in the Odessa Oblast (province) of south-western Ukraine.
It is the administrative center of the Kiliysky Raion (district), and is located in the Danube Delta, in the Bessarabian historic district of Budjak.
Novo Kiliya, Romanian: Chilia Nouă), or "New Chilia".
The territory was incorporated into the Principality of Moldavia in 1392 by Roman I, while previously it has been under Wallachian rule during the reign of Mircea the Elder, a prince from the House of Basarab.
In 1484, Stephen the Great was forced to surrender the two main fortresses of Chilia (Kiliya) and Cetatea Albă (Bilhorod-Dnistrovs'kyi) to the Ottoman Empire.
The region was divided into two sanjaks, Kiliya and Akkerman (Bilhorod-Dnistrovs'kyi).
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