Dobruja

[doh-broo-juh, daw-broo-juh]

noun

1. a region in SE Romania and NE Bulgaria, between the Danube River and the Black Sea. 2,970 sq. mi. (7,690 sq. km).

Dobruja

/ ˈdɔbrudʒa /

noun

1. Romanian name: Dobrogea. a region of E Europe, between the River Danube and the Black Sea: the north passed to Romania and the south to Bulgaria after the Berlin Congress (1878)

Example Sentences

It's a town in northern Dobruja, Romania.

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If Bulgaria had Dobruja, she would share the lower Danube to the sea.

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Rumor had it that the Foreign Minister was cooking up a deal between Bulgaria and Rumania whereby King Carol would appease King Boris by handing back a small strip of the Dobruja territory Bulgaria has long demanded.

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Not only does Russia want back Bessarabia, but Hungary wants back Transylvania, Bulgaria wants back Dobruja�Rumania's northeast, northwest and southern provinces.

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If that line-up holds and Rumania has to fight Russia, Hungary will not grab for Transylvania, nor Bulgaria for Dobruja.

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