Dobruja

American  

[doh-broo-juh, daw-broo-juh] / ˈdoʊ bru dʒə, ˈdɔ bru dʒə /

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).

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Dobruja British  

/ 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)

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Dobruja

And London hastily recognized "the fundamental justice" of Bulgaria's claims on Rumanian Dobruja.

From Time Magazine Archive

Not too subtle was Great Britain's sponsorship of the Dobruja claim.

From Time Magazine Archive

It would cut 170 miles off the route, allow deep-draught Red vessels to sail into Europe's heart, and reclaim by irrigation the vast, poor Dobruja plain through which it flowed.

From Time Magazine Archive

General Feodor Tolbukhin's army group reached southern Dobruja below Constanta.

From Time Magazine Archive

For nearly 500 years preceding 1878, Dobruja was under Turkish rule.

From Area Handbook for Romania by Bernier, Donald W.