Turks of Romania
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The Turks of Romania are ethnic Turks who form an ethnic minority in Romania. According to the 2011 census, there were 27,698 Turks living in the country, forming a minority of some 0.15% of the popul
Hunchiar Mosque in Constanța, completed in 1869 by Abdulaziz
Ottoman clock tower in Giurgiu
Statue of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, Calea Victoriei, Bucharest
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
Turks of Romania
…which has been held by the Democratic Turkish Union of Romania since 1992. An important Turkish community also used to live until 1967 on the island of Ada Kaleh. After 1989, a significant number of Turkish entrepreneurs started investing and establishing business ventures in Romania, and a certain proportion…
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