Babadag

Babadag formerly called Babatag is a city in Tulcea County, Romania, placed on a small lake formed by using the Taita river, in the densely wooded highlands of northern Dobruja. One of the several tombs of Sari Saltik is discovered in town. The call of Babadag is connected with 13th century dervish Baba Sari Saltik, who's stated to have led a number of Turcomans to Dobruja and to have settled them on this vicinity.

The metropolis become first stated by means of Ibn Battuta underneath the call Baba Saltuk, as the furthermost outpost of the Turks. The town changed into conquered with the aid of Bayezid I, sultan of the Ottoman Empire, in his 1393 Danubian campaign. The production of a castle was began here during the reign of Murad IV, but via 1650 handiest the citadel's foundation partitions and towers have been standing. In the 177th century, it once in a while served because the winter headquarters for the Grand Vizier of the Turks in the course of their wars with Russia.