Caliacra County

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Caliacra County was a county (județ) of Romania in the interwar period, in Southern Dobruja, with the seat at Bazargic (today Dobrich, Bulgaria).

The county was located in the south-eastern part of Romania, in the Southern Dobruja region, known as

Cadrilater. Currently the territory of the former county is part of Bulgaria, mostly forming Dobrich Province, although several villages in the south are included in Varna Province. It bordered on the north with Constanța County, northwest with Durostor County, south with the Kingdom of Bulgaria, and on the east with the Black Sea
.

Administration

Map of Caliacra County as constituted in 1938.

The county consisted of 4 districts (plăși):[1]

  1. Plasa Balcic, headquartered at
    Balcic
  2. Plasa Casim, headquartered at Casim
  3. Plasa Ezibei, headquartered at
    Bazargic
  4. Plasa Stejarul, headquartered at Stejarul

Etymology

The county was named after the Cape of Caliacra (today

Monachus monachus albiventer
(seal) lived until 1940, was a natural reserve.

History

The promontory of

Mircea I of Wallachia
became master of the "Great Sea". It is known that the Genoese traded here. The Turks besieged the city several times, conquering it finally in 1444; at which time it was laid ruin. The Bulgarians made the defense of the city a patriotic legend, the tragic outcome of which is the suicide of the 40 virgins (a legend also found in the Serbian and Greek folklore).

As a result of Romania's involvement in Bulgaria during the Second Balkan War,

the same war.[2]

After the region was annexed by Romania as a result of the

Treaty of Neuilly
).

After the 1938 Administrative and Constitutional Reform, the county was merged with the counties of Constanța, Durostor and Ialomița to form Ținutul Mării.

On September 7, 1940, the former county with the whole Southern Dobruja was returned to Bulgaria (see Treaty of Craiova).

Coat of arms

The Coat of Arms depicted a shining lighthouse.

Population

According to the Romanian census of 1930 the population of Caliacra County was 166,911, of which 42.4% were ethnic Bulgarians, 23.0% Turks, 22.6% Romanians, 3.8% Gagauz, 2.7% Tatars, 1.4% Gypsies and 4.1% other ethnic groups: Greeks, Jews, Armenians, Circassians. Classified by religion: 70.4% Orthodox Christian, 28.2% Islam.[3]

Urban population

In 1930, the county's urban population was 41,588, of which 39.8% were Bulgarians, 24.1% Turkish, 15.4% Romanians and Aromanians, 6.9% Romanies, 3.6% Gagauz, 3.5% Tatars, 2.1% Greeks, 2.1% Armenians, as well as other minorities. From the religious point of view, the urban population consisted of 62.1% Eastern Orthodox, 34.1% Muslim, 1.7% Armenian-Gregorian, 1.0% Jewish, as well as other minorities.

See also

References

  1. ^ Portretul României Interbelice - Județul Caliacra
  2. ^ Constantin Dobrogeanu-Gherea - „Opere Complete” (Ed. Politică, 1976-1983, citat în Catherine Durandin: „Istoria Românilor”, trad : L. Buruiană-Popovici, Ed. Institutului European, București, 1998)
  3. ^ Recensământul general al populației României din 29 decemvrie 1930, Vol. II, pag. 574

External links

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