Northern Dobruja

**Northern Dobruja** ( or simply ; , _Severna Dobrudzha_) is the part of Dobruja that is in Romania. It is between the lower Danube river and the Black Sea. To the south is Southern Dobruja, the Bulgarian part of Dobruja.

## Geography

The territory of Northern Dobruja now forms the counties of Constanța and Tulcea. It has a total area of 15,570 km<sup>2</sup> and a population of slightly under 900,000.

### Cities

- Constanța
- Tulcea
- Medgidia
- Mangalia

### Rivers

- Casimcea
- Slava
- Taița
- Telița

### Lakes

- Crapina Lake
- Jijiei Lake
- Traian Lake
- Babadag Lake
- Razim Lake
- Zmeica Lake
- Sinoe Lake
- Tașaul Lake
- Techirghiol Lake

### Danube Delta

The Danube Delta is made of many lakes. The most important ones are:

- Roșu
- Isac
- Gorgova
- Furtuna
- Ledeanca
- Tatanir
- Merhel
- Matița
- Uzlina
- Dranov
- Lumina
- Puiu
- Puiuleț

## Demographics

**Ethnic composition**

The table below shows Romanian statistics throughout the years:
|Ethnicity|1878|1880|1899|1913|1930<sup>1</sup>|1956|1966|1977|1992|2002|2011||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|All|225,692|139,671|258,242|380,430|437,131|593,659|702,461|863,348|1,019,766|971,643|897,165||
|Romanian|46,504 (21%)|43,671 (31%)|118,919 (46%)|216,425 (56.8%)|282,844 (64.7%)|514,331 (86.6%)|622,996 (88.7%)|784,934 (90.9%)|926,608 (90.8%)|883,620 (90.9%)|751,250 (83.7%)||
|Bulgarian|30,177 (13,3%)|24,915 (17%)|38,439 (14%)|51,149 (13.4%)|42,070 (9.6%)|749 (0.13%)|524 (0.07%)|415 (0.05%)|311 (0.03%)|135 (0.01%)|58 (0.01%)||
|Turkish|48,783 (21,6%)|18,624 (13%)|12,146 (4%)|20,092 (5.3%)|21,748 (5%)|11,994 (2%)|16,209 (2.3%)|21,666 (2.5%)|27,685 (2.7%)|27,580 (2.8%)|22,500 (2.5%)||
|Tatar|71,146 (31,5%)|29,476 (21%)|28,670 (11%)|21,350 (5.6%)|15,546 (3.6%)|20,239 (3.4%)|21,939 (3.1%)|22,875 (2.65%)|24,185 (2.4%)|23,409 (2.4%)|19,720 (2.2%)||
|Russian-Lipovan|12,748 (5,6%)|8,250 (6%)|12,801 (5%)|rowspan="2"|35,859 (9.4%)|26,210 (6%)²|29,944 (5%)|30,509 (4.35%)|24,098 (2.8%)|26,154 (2.6%)|21,623 (2.2%)|13,910 (1.6%)|
|Ruthenian (Ukrainian from 1956)||455 (0.3%)|13,680 (5%)|33 (0.01%)|7,025 (1.18%)|5,154 (0.73%)|2,639 (0.3%)|4,101 (0.4%)|1,465 (0.1%)|1,177 (0.1%)|||
|Germans|1,134 (0,5%)|2,461 (1.7%)|8,566 (3%)|7,697 (2%)|12,023 (2.75%)|735 (0.12%)|599 (0.09%)|648 (0.08%)|677 (0.07%)|398 (0.04%)|166 (0.02%)||
|Greek|3,480 (1,6%)|4,015 (2.8%)|8,445 (3%)|9,999 (2.6%)|7,743 (1.8%)|1,399 (0.24%)|908 (0.13%)|635 (0.07%)|1,230 (0.12%)|2,270 (0.23%)|1,447 (0.16%)||
|Roma||702 (0.5%)|2,252 (0.87%)|3,263 (0.9%)|3,831 (0.88%)|1,176 (0.2%)|378 (0.05%)|2,565 (0.3%)|5,983 (0.59%)|8,295 (0.85%)|11,977 (1.3%)||

- <sup>1</sup>According to the 1926–1938 Romanian administrative division (counties of Constanța and Tulcea), which excluded a part of today's Romania (chiefly the communes of Ostrov and Lipnița, now part of Constanța County) and included a part of today's Bulgaria (parts of General Toshevo and Krushari municipalities)
- <sup>2</sup>Only Russians. (Russians and Lipovans counted separately)

## Symbols

Northern Dobruja is represented by two dolphins in the coat of arms of Romania.

Starting with 2015, Romania observes Dobruja Day on November 14. This day is the day in 1878 when Northern Dobruja became part of the Kingdom of Romania after the Treaty of Berlin.

## References

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