Isaccea

Isaccea is a small city in Tulcea County, in Dobruja, Romania, on the right financial institution of the Danube, 35 km north-west of Tulcea. According to the 2011 census, it has a populace of four,955. The metropolis has been inhabited for heaps of years, as it is one of the few places in all the Lower Danube that may be easily forded and consequently an smooth link between the Balkans and the steppes of Southern Ukraine and Russia, north of the Black Sea.

The Danube was for a long term the border among the Romans, later Byzantines and the "barbarian" migrating tribes inside the north, making Isaccea a border town, conquered and held by dozens of various peoples. Possibly the earliest citing is in De Administrando Imperio of Constantine Porphyrogenitus. It talks approximately six abandoned cities among the Dniester and Bulgaria, among them being Saka-katai, katai being maximum likely a transcription of a Pecheneg phrase for "metropolis".