Medgidia (TurkishMecidiye): (population: 43,800) is a town in Dobruja, Romania. Dobruja, or sometimes Dobrudja (Dobrogea in Romanian, Добруджа—transliterated Dobrudzha—in Bulgarian, Dobruca in Turkish), is the territory between the lower Danube river and the Black Sea, including the Danube Delta and the Romanian coast. ...
Named after the Ottomansultan Abdul Mejid, who founded the town around 1860. Imperial motto (Ottoman Turkish) Devlet-i Ebed-müddet (the Eternal State) The Ottoman Empire at the height of its power Official language Ottoman Turkish Capital Bursa (1335 - 1365), Edirne (1365-1453), İstanbul (1453-1922) Imperial anthem Ottoman imperial anthem Sovereigns Padishah of the Osmanli Dynasty Population ca 40 million... A sultan (Arabic: سلطان) is an Islamic title, with several historical meanings. ... Sultan Abdul Mejid I Abd-ul-Mejid (Arabic: عبد المجيد الأول ) (April 23, 1823 – June 25, 1861) was the sultan of the Ottoman Empire and succeeded his father Mahmud II on July 2, 1839. ... 1860 is the leap year starting on Sunday. ...
Medgidia is placed between the Danube and the Black Sea, 39 km far from Constanta, the town is the center of a road and rail knot, from East to West and from North to South.
In 1926 at Medgidia was commemorated the heroism of the Serbian division which fight in Dobrogea in the World's First War and inaugurated a monument which has its mission to extol for the next generations, one of the tragic and glorious acts of that war.
Medgidia Festival This event has been celebrated again, ever since 1999, at the end of October and thousands of Medgidias and people around Medgidia take part in it.
Medgidia lies in the center of an agricultural area of several tens of millions hectares, with a fertile soil and provided with irrigation systems.
Since 1840 the idea of constructing a canal between the Danube and the Black Sea concerned the same people who were engaged in the quest, the prosperity and the rise of the region.
The beginning of the September, the representatives of the delegation from Turkey, Bulgaria, Macedonia and Kosovo meet at the City hall with representatives of the local administration.
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