Silistra ( bg, Силистра ; tr, Silistre; ro, Silistra) is a town in
Northeastern
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Bulgaria
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. The town lies on the southern bank of the lower
Danube
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river, and is also the part of the
Romania
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n
border
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where it stops following the Danube. Silistra is the administrative center of the
Silistra Province and one of the important towns of the historical region of
Southern Dobrudzha.
Silistra is a major cultural, industrial, transportation, and educational center of Northeastern Bulgaria. There are many historical landmarks including a
richly-decorated Late Roman tomb, remains of the Medieval fortress, an
Ottoman fort, and an art gallery.
Etymology
The name Silistra is possibly derived from the root of the old
Thracian
The Thracians (; grc, Θρᾷκες ''Thrāikes''; la, Thraci) were an Indo-European speaking people who inhabited large parts of Eastern and Southeastern Europe in ancient history.. "The Thracians were an Indo-European people who occupied ...
name of the lower part of the
Danube
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"Istrum". By another theory, the city's name comes from the
Latin
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words "silo" and "stra", meaning "awl" and "strategy".
Geography
Silistra is in the northeastern part of Bulgaria on the southern bank of the
Danube
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River. It is located in the Bulgarian part of
Dobrudzha.
The
municipality of Silistra covers an area of 516 km
2 and includes the town and 18 villages. The area of the city-proper is 27.159 km
2.
Silistra is 431 km from Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria; 141 km from Varna; and 119 km from Ruse.
History
![Durostorum-walls](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8c/Durostorum-walls.jpg)
The
Romans
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*Roman people, the people of ancient Rome
*''Epistle to the Romans'', shortened to ''Romans'', a lette ...
built a fortress in AD 29 on the site of an earlier
Thracian
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settlement and kept its name, ''Durostorum'' (or ''Dorostorum''). The earliest saints of Bulgaria are Roman soldiers executed at Durostorum during the
Diocletian Persecution
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(303–313), including
St. Dasius and
St. Julius the Veteran.
Durostorum became an important military center of the Roman province of
Moesia, and grew into a city at the time of
Marcus Aurelius
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (Latin: áːɾkus̠ auɾέːli.us̠ antɔ́ːni.us̠ English: ; 26 April 121 – 17 March 180) was Roman emperor from 161 to 180 AD and a Stoic philosopher. He was the last of the rulers known as the Five Good ...
. Durostorum became the seat of a Christian bishopric and a center of Christianity in the region.
Auxentius was expelled from Durostorum by an edict of Theodosius depriving Arian bishops in 383, and took refuge at Milan where he became embroiled in controversy with St
Ambrose. The Roman general
Flavius Aëtius
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was born in the town in 396. When the Roman Empire split into the
Eastern
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and
Western empire
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s, the town (known as , in Byzantine Greek) became part of the Eastern Roman Empire. As part of the
Bulgarian Empire Durostolon was known as ''Drastar'' in Medieval times.
![Silistra Museum](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c4/Silistra_Museum.JPG)
Around the end of the 7th century, the town was incorporated into the
First Bulgarian Empire and the bishop of ( in Bulgarian) was proclaimed the first
patriarch of Bulgaria
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Hist ...
. In 895 (during the
Bulgarian-Hungarian War of 894–896), the Hungarians, allies of the Byzantines, besieged the Bulgarian army under the personal command of
Simeon I the Great in the fortress of the town but were repulsed. The next year the Hungarians were decisively defeated in the
battle of Southern Buh
The Battle of Southern Buh occurred near the banks of the eponymous river (today in Ukraine). The result was a great Bulgarian victory which forced the Magyars of the Etelköz realm to abandon the steppes of southern Ukraine, as well as thei ...
.
The town was captured by the forces of
Sviatoslav I of Kiev in 969, but two years later it was taken by the Byzantines during the
Battle of Dorostolon. It was renamed Theodoropolis, after military saint
Theodore Stratelates
Theodore Stratelates ( grc-gre, Ἅγιος Θεόδωρος ὁ Στρατηλάτης (); cop, ⲡⲓⲁⲅⲓⲟⲥ Ⲑⲉⲟⲇⲱⲣⲟⲥ), also known as Theodore of Heraclea ( grc-gre, Θεόδωρος Ἡρακλείας; AD 281–319) ...
, who is said to have come to the aid of Emperor
John I Tzimiskes during the battle. In 976, Tsar
Samuel restored Bulgarian rule in the region until 1001, when it once again became part of the Byzantine Empire.
In 1186, after the
Rebellion of Asen and Peter, the town became part of the Second
Bulgarian Empire and renamed Drastar.
In 1279, under Emperor
Ivailo, Drastar was attacked by the
Mongols
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; but after a three-month-long siege the Bulgarians managed to break through. The town remained part of the Bulgarian Empire until the
Ottoman conquest of the Balkans
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around 1400. Throughout the Middle Ages, Drastar (possibly known by the name Silistra too) was among Bulgaria's largest and most important cities.
During
Ottoman rule
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Governments and dynasties
* Ottoman Caliphate, an Islamic caliphate from 1517 to 1924
* Ottoman Empire, in existence fro ...
, Silistra (
Ottoman Turkish: ) was part of
Rumelia Province and was the administrative centre of the Silistra district (''
sanjak
Sanjaks (liwāʾ) (plural form: alwiyāʾ)
* Armenian: նահանգ (''nahang''; meaning "province")
* Bulgarian: окръг (''okrǔg''; meaning "county", "province", or "region")
* el, Διοίκησις (''dioikēsis'', meaning "province" ...
''). This district was later upgraded to become the
Silistra Province and stretched over most of the western
Black Sea
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littoral
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.
The town was captured and recaptured by
Russian
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forces numerous times during several
Russo-Turkish Wars
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and was besieged between 14 April and 23 June 1854 during the
Crimean War
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Geopolitical causes of the war included the ...
.
Namık Kemal
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wrote his most famous play, ''
Vatan Yahut Silistre'' ("Homeland or Silistre"), a drama about the
siege of Silistra
The siege of Silistria, or siege of Silistra, took place during the Crimean War, from 11 May to 23 June 1854, when Russian forces besieged the Ottoman fortress of Silistria (present-day Bulgaria). Sustained Ottoman resistance had allowed Fr ...
, in which he expounded on the ideas of patriotism and liberalism. The play was first staged on 1 April 1873 and led to his exile to
Famagusta.
The Ottoman Silistra Province was reduced in size, as the districts of
Özi
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and
Hocabey and the region of
Bessarabia were ceded to the Russian Empire at the end of the 18th century and the beginning of the 19th century. Edirne Province was created from its southern regions in 1830. Finally, Silistra Province merged with the provinces of
Vidin
Vidin ( bg, Видин, ; Old Romanian: Diiu) is a port city on the southern bank of the Danube in north-western Bulgaria. It is close to the borders with Romania and Serbia, and is also the administrative centre of Vidin Province, as well as ...
and
Niš
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in 1864 to form
Danube Province. Silistra was downgraded to a ''kaza'' centre in
Ruse
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**Ruse Municipality
** Ruse Province
** 19th MMC – Ruse, a constituency
*Ruše, a town and municipality in north-eastern Slovenia
* Ruše, Žalec, a small settlement in east-ce ...
district in this province in the same year.
Between 1819 and 1826,
Eliezer Papo Rabbi Eliezer Papo (1785–1828) was the rabbi of the community of Silistra in Bulgaria (then part of the Ottoman Empire). He is famous for writing the ''Pele Yoetz'', a work of musar (ethical) literature which gives advice on how to behave as a Je ...
— a renowned
Jew
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ish scholar — was the
rabbi
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of the community of Silistra, making this town famous among observant Jews. Up to the present, his grave is a focus of
pilgrimage
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, some pilgrims flying from
Israel
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and even from
Latin America
Latin America or
* french: Amérique Latine, link=no
* ht, Amerik Latin, link=no
* pt, América Latina, link=no, name=a, sometimes referred to as LatAm is a large cultural region in the Americas where Romance languages — languages derived f ...
to Bulgaria for that purpose.
In 1878, following the
Russo-Turkish War of 1877–1878, Silistra was included in Bulgaria.
Romania
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was opposed to this as it wanted to acquire the city and established the short-lived
Silistra Nouă County, which was abolished a year later.
In May 1913, following the
Second Balkan War
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and after unsuccessful Bulgarian-Romanian negotiations in
London
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, the two countries accepted the mediation of the
Great Powers, who awarded Silistra and the area in a 3 km radius around it to Romania at the
Saint Petersburg
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Conference. The 1913
Treaty of Bucharest ceded Silistra and the whole of
Southern Dobruja
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to
Romania
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. Bulgaria regained the town from 1916 during
World War I
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. This became finalised with the
Treaty of Bucharest in 1918 after Romania surrendered to the
Central Powers
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(of which Bulgaria was a part). The
Treaty of Neuilly
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(1919) following
World War I
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returned it to Romania. Silistra remained a part of Romania until the
Axis
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-sponsored
Treaty of Craiova
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in 1940, when the town once again became part of Bulgaria, a transfer confirmed by the
Paris Peace Treaties in 1947. Between 1913 and 1938, Silistra was the capital of
Durostor County
Durostor County was a county ('' județ'') of the Kingdom of Romania, in Southern Dobruja, with the seat at Silistra.
The county was located in the south-eastern part of Greater Romania, in the southern Dobrogea region, known as Cadrilater. Cur ...
(except during Bulgarian rule). It became part of
Ținutul Mării ("Sea District") between 1938 and 1940 during Romanian rule. Following the establishment of the People's Republic of Bulgaria, Silistra developed as a center of industry and agriculture in the region, comparable to Ruse (because of the strategic position on the Danube) and Dobrich (due to the abundant fertile lands). This led to a major population increase which continued until 1985. After that, the population slowly started to decrease. Following the collapse of the People's Republic in 1989, many of its inhabitants migrated to other parts of the country or emigrated outside Bulgaria.
Climate
Silistra has a
continental climate, with cold snowy winters and hot summers.
Population
In January 2012, Silistra was inhabited by 35 230 people within the city limits, while the
Silistra Municipality
Silistra Municipality ( bg, Община Силистра) is a municipality ('' obshtina'') in Silistra Province, Northeastern Bulgaria, located along the right bank of Danube river, in the Danubian Plain, bounded by Romania to the northeast and ...
along with the legally affiliated adjacent villages had 50 780 inhabitants.
[National Statistical Institute - 2012]
The number of the residents of the city (not the municipality) reached its peak in the period 1986–1991, when it exceeded 70,000.
The following table presents the change of the population after 1887.
Ethnic, linguistic and religious composition
According to the latest 2011 census data, the individuals declared their ethnic identity were distributed as follows:
Population by province, municipality, settlement and ethnic identification, by 01.02.2011; Bulgarian National Statistical Institute
*Bulgarians
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Etymology
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: 29,677 (88.3%)
*Turks
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* Turkic peoples, a collection of ethnic groups who speak Turkic languages
* Turkish people, or the Turks, a Turkic ethnic group and nation
* Turkish citizen, a citizen of the Republic ...
: 3,458 (10.3%)
*Romani
Romani may refer to:
Ethnicities
* Romani people, an ethnic group of Northern Indian origin, living dispersed in Europe, the Americas and Asia
** Romani genocide, under Nazi rule
* Romani language, any of several Indo-Aryan languages of the Roma ...
: 123 (0.4%)
*Others: 190 (0.6%)
*Indefinable: 180 (0.5%)
**Undeclared: 1,979 (5.6%)
Total: 35,607
Notable people
*Flavius Aetius
Aetius (also spelled Aëtius; ; 390 – 454) was a Roman general and statesman of the closing period of the Western Roman Empire. He was a military commander and the most influential man in the Empire for two decades (433454). He managed pol ...
(396 – 454), a Roman
Roman or Romans most often refers to:
*Rome, the capital city of Italy
*Ancient Rome, Roman civilization from 8th century BC to 5th century AD
*Roman people, the people of ancient Rome
*'' Epistle to the Romans'', shortened to ''Romans'', a lette ...
general, defeated Attila the Hun
*Saint Dimitra of Kiev (1810 – 1878), a Bulgarian saint
* Parteniy Pavlovich - cleric, author of the first autobiography in South Slavic literature
*Yıldız İbrahimova
Yıldız İbrahimova ( bg, Йълдъз Ибрахимова, Yaldaz Ibrahimova, tr, Yıldız İbrahimova; born 1952 in Silistra) is a Bulgarian singer of Turkish ancestry. Besides jazz, she has also recorded Bulgarian, Turkish, Gypsy and Russ ...
- jazz singer
*Veselin Metodiev
Veselin Metodiev Petrov ( bg, Веселин Методиев Петров) (born 3 November 1957, in Silistra) is a Bulgarian politician, member of Parliament & deputy chairman of Democrats for a Strong Bulgaria. He was Deputy Prime Minister an ...
- former minister of culture
* Orfi (1943 – 1999), magician
* Denislav Kalchev (1973 –), swimmer
Twin towns – sister cities
Silistra is twinned with:
* Veles, North Macedonia
* Dunaújváros
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, Hungary
* Dresden
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, Germany
* Leskovac
Leskovac (Serbian Cyrillic: Лесковац, ) is a city and the administrative center of the Jablanica District in southern Serbia. According to the 2022 census, City of Leskovac has a 124,889 inhabitants.
Etymology
Leskovac was historicall ...
, Serbia
* Lüleburgaz
Lüleburgaz (, Modern Greek: Λουλέ Μπουργκάς ''Lule Burgas'', Bulgarian: Люлебургаз ''Lyuleburgaz''), Bergoulion (Ancient Greek: Βεργούλιον) or Arcadiopolis (Ancient Greek: Αρκαδιόυπολις ''Arkadiópol ...
, Turkey
* Slobozia
Slobozia () is the capital city of Ialomița County, Muntenia, Romania, with a population of 48,241 in 2011.
Etymology
Its name is from the Romanian "slobozie", which meant a recently colonized village which was free of taxation. The word its ...
, Romania
* Lida
Lida ( be, Лі́да ; russian: Ли́да ; lt, Lyda; lv, Ļida; pl, Lida ; yi, לידע, Lyde) is a city 168 km (104 mi) west of Minsk in western Belarus in Grodno Region.
Etymology
The name ''Lida'' arises from its Lithuan ...
, Belarus
* Óbuda-Békásmegyer
Óbuda-Békásmegyer is the 3rd district of Budapest, Hungary.
Landmarks
* Aquincum, ruins of the Roman city
* Óbuda Jewish Cemetery
* Római Part (Roman Beach)
History
The military camp, then city of Aquincum, located in part of what later ...
, Hungary
Honour
Silistra Knoll
Silistra Knoll ( bg, връх Силистра, vrah Silistra, ) rises to over in southern Levski Ridge, in the Tangra Mountains of Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. It is bounded by Macy Glacier to the north and Boya ...
on Livingston Island
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in the South Shetland Islands
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, Antarctica
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is named after Silistra.
"Silistra" is also the name of a fictional planet
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in Janet Morris
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Background
Writing
Janet Morris b ...
' book '' High Couch of Silistra'' (1977).
References
External links
Official municipality website
(in Bulgarian and English)
News from UNESCO nature reserve in Silistra
Awarded "EDEN - European Destinations of Excellence" non traditional tourist destination 2010
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Populated places in Silistra Province
Port cities and towns in Bulgaria
Populated places on the Danube
Bulgaria–Romania border crossings
Jewish pilgrimage sites
Capitals of former Romanian counties