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Tutrakan
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Tutrakan ( , , ) is a town in northeastern Bulgaria, an administrative centre of the homonymous municipality, part of Silistra Province. It is situated on the right bank of the Danube opposite the Romanian town of Oltenița (to which it was linked through a ferry but the ferry does not work anymore), in the very west of Southern Dobruja, 58 km east of Rousse and 62 km west of Silistra.

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Tutrakan
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Teodor's house in Tutrakan
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Country
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Province(Oblast)
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+2
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+3
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Location of Tutrakan
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Bulgaria
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Location of Tutrakan
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Mayor
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Postal Code
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Silistra
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9214
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2020
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107

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Tutrakan ( , , ) is a town in northeastern Bulgaria, an administrative centre of the homonymous municipality, part of Silistra Province. It is situated on the right bank of the Danube opposite the Romanian town of Oltenița (to which it was linked through a ferry but the ferry does not work anymore), in the very west of Southern Dobruja, 58&nbsp;km east of Rousse and 62&nbsp;km west of Silistra.

== History == The town was founded by the Ancient Romans in the end of the first half of the 1st century under the name Transmarisca. The settlement was part of the Roman military boundary in the 1st and 3rd century and reached its apogee in the 4th century, when, under the personal management of Diocletian, it was made one of the largest strongholds of the Danubian limes.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Tutrakan” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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