The Medjidi Tabia Fortress ( bg, Меджиди табия) is a fortress from the 1840s and early 1850s.
The fortress was built in the period 1841-1853 according to the plans of the German military engineer
Helmut von Moltke who visited Silistra in 1837. In 1847 it was visited by Sultan
Abdulmejid I
Abdulmejid I ( ota, عبد المجيد اول, ʿAbdü'l-Mecîd-i evvel, tr, I. Abdülmecid; 25 April 182325 June 1861) was the 31st Sultan of the Ottoman Empire and succeeded his father Mahmud II on 2 July 1839. His reign was notable for the ...
, whose name is called — Majidi Tabia.
In 1854, during the
Crimean War
The Crimean War, , was fought from October 1853 to February 1856 between Russia and an ultimately victorious alliance of the Ottoman Empire, France, the United Kingdom and Piedmont-Sardinia.
Geopolitical causes of the war included the de ...
, the fortress withstood a month-long Russian siege —
Siege of Silistria.
Gallery
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References
External links
Medzhidi Tabiya Fortress – Town of Silistra
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Forts in Bulgaria
History of Silistra
Ottoman fortifications