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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Example Sentences

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

Eventually, the largest group would settle in the Dobruja area, along Bulgaria's Black Sea coast�shortest land corridor from the U.S.S.R. to the Dardanelles.

From Time Magazine Archive

It was only four years since Hitler had ordered Rumania to disgorge her World War I gains�north Transylvania to the Magyars, south Dobruja to the Bulgars.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Time Magazine Archive

Rainfall averages about twenty-five inches, ranging from only fifteen inches on the Dobruja plateau to forty inches in the mountainous regions.

From Area Handbook for Romania by Bernier, Donald W.