Dobrogea and Black Sea

About Dobrogea

Dobrogea is a territory of intereferences between: Occidend and Orient, Latins and Slaves, Muslims and Christians, and old Empires (Roman, Bizantin,Otoman, Russian). As Nicolae Ioarga, a famous Romanian writer once said:
"Dobrogea is a very curious country geologically, which geographically doesn't belong to any of the Carpathians and Balkans, and whose history has been as diverse as its ground's shapes and nature". Source: www.webydesigns.ro/dobrogea/index.html

Dobrogea's history
(in romanian: Dobrogea. O scurtă istorie (I) by Ion Bulei)

Greeks from Miletus founded the town of Istros (Histria) in 657 BC, and later the towns of Tomis (Constanta) and Callatis (Mangalia). The lands south of Dobrogea were part of the Thracian kingdom of Odrisa. In 480 BC the Thracians extended their rule over Dobrogea and in 339 BC Alexander brought Dobrogea under Macedonian rule, however after his death Macedonian control weakened. Source: www.webydesigns.ro/dobrogea/history.html

Ref.:
- www.webydesigns.ro/dobrogea/index.html
- www.webydesigns.ro/dobrogea/history.html
- www.geographic.org/

About Black Sea

The Black Sea forms in an east-west trending elliptical depression which lies between Bulgaria, Georgia, Romania, Russia, Turkey, and Ukraine. Important cities along the coast include Batumi, Burgas, Constanţa, Giresun, Hopa, Istanbul, Kerch, Kherson, Mangalia, Năvodari, Novorossiysk, Odessa, Ordu, Poti, Rize, Samsun, Sevastopol, Sochi, Sukhumi, Trabzon, Varna, Yalta and Zonguldak. Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Sea

Did you know?
The Black Sea is almost completely cut off from the world's other seas and ocean. The deepest waters of the Black Sea extend to depths of well over two kilometres.
Source: www.icpdr.org/icpdr-pages/black_sea.htm

With an international airport, a busy seaport, express trains linking it to Bucharest (2 1/2 hours) and a 2,500 year history (the Roman poet Ovid lived in exile here), Constanta is the very kind of cosmopolitan place a seaside vacation needs.

Source: www.turism.ro/english/black_sea.php

Ref.:
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Sea
- http://www.nationalgeographic.com/blacksea/
- http://www.icpdr.org/icpdr-pages/black_sea.htm

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