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Braila, Tulcha were the seats of the Bulgarian revolutionaries from the second half of the 19th century. Northern Dobrudja is the first territory south of the Danube on which the Bulgarian state was established by the ancient Bulgarians led by Asparukh during their migration from the steppes of the northern Black Sea to the lands of the Balkan Peninsula where their descendants have lived for more than 1,330 years.
After the conquest of the Balkans until 1877, the area was within the limits of the Ottoman Empire, with a significant part of the Bulgarian population, a part of the Bulgarian land delineated by the Sultan's firman, which defined the boundaries of the Bulgarian Exarchate in 1870. After the Russo-Turkish War of 1877-1878, which liberated Bulgaria, through the San Stefano Peace Treaty of February 19/March 3, 1878, in order to ensure access to the Danube River, the Russian Empire took the territory of Bessarabia from Romania, giving it designates Northern Dobrudja for compensation. In the San Stefano Peace Treaty of March 3, 1878, the border between Bulgaria and Romania was defined as follows:
"It will leave the seashore at Mangalia and, following the southern borders of the Tulcan Sanjak, will reach the Danube above Rasovo." The Romanian public rejects the Russian proposal.
On November 14, King Carol I sent the following message in Bulgarian to the Dobruja population: "With the Treaty of Berlin, the European great powers joined your homeland to Romania. We will not enter as conquerors within your borders, thus defined by Europe...". However, the situation was legitimized by the Berlin Congress and the Dobruja issue became a major problem of Balkan relations. The fact that from 1878 to 1912 the Dobruja question did not cause serious complications in the relations between Bulgaria and Romania, but after the Balkan War, and most of all during the Inter-Allied War, Romania attacked Bulgaria with unguarded borders and an unguarded Northern Bulgaria took away Southern Dobrudja/returned in 1940 again to the borders of Bulgaria/, which marked the beginning of the conflicts between the two countries.
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