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Dobruja

American

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

noun

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 British

/ ˈdɔbrudʒa /

noun

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)

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Bulgaria sent thanks to Moscow after she got Southern Dobruja from Rumania.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Time Magazine Archive

Bulgaria has never forgotten that she lost part of the province of Dobruja to Rumania in 1913 and that some 500,000 Dobrujans are now Rumanian subjects.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Time Magazine Archive

Dobruja, along the lower Danube River and adjacent to the Black Sea coast, averages the least, followed by the lowlands of Moldavia and southernmost Walachia, which usually receive less than twenty inches.

From Area Handbook for Romania by Donald W. Bernier

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