Ada Kaleh
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Ada Kaleh was a small island on the Danube, located in Romania, that was submerged during the construction of the Iron Gates hydroelectric plant in 1970. The island was about 3 kilometres downstream f
General view from north, photo from the end of the 19th century
The bazaar
Ada Kaleh in 1912
People posing before the mosque of Ada Kaleh, 1964
Iron Gates
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The Iron Gates is a gorge on the river Danube. It forms part of the boundary between Serbia to the south and Romania to the north. In the broad sense it encompasses a route of 134 km; in the narrow se
Ada Kaleh
…Turkish Muslim populations of Vidin and Ruse, Bulgaria due to exogamic marriages. The isle of Ada Kaleh is probably the most evocative victim of the Iron Gate dam's construction. Once an Ottoman Turkish exclave that changed hands multiple times in the 18th and 19th centuries, it had a mosque and numerous…
The Iron Gates of the Danube
Kazan gorge at its narrowest point
The Roman plaque "Tabula Traiana", Serbia
Iron Gate I dam