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Babadag
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| County | Tulcea County | ||
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| Status | Town | ||
| Mayor | Ioan Dardac, Social Democratic Party, since 2004 | ||
| Area | 121 km² | ||
| Population (2002) | 10,037 | ||
| Density | 82 inh/km² | ||
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| Web site | http://www.primaria-babadag.ro/ | ||
Babadag (historical name: Turkish: Babadağ) is a town in Tulcea county, Romania, located on a small lake formed by the Taiţa river, in the densely wooded highlands of northern Dobruja. Its name means "the mountain of the father" in Turkish. One of the several tombs of Sarı Saltuk is found in town.
The Babadag Lake is divided only by a strip of marshland from Razim Lake, a broad landlocked sheet of water spilling onto the Black Sea. Babadag used to be a market for wool and mutton.[citation needed]
Babadag has a population of 10,037, according to the 2002 census. In 1900, its population was 3,500.
Population distribution:
Its name is connected with thirteenth century dervish Baba Sarı Saltuk, who is said to have led a number of Turcomans to Dobruja and to have settled them in the Babadag area. The name of Babadag was first mentioned by Ibn Battuta, under the name Baba Saltuk, as the furthermost outpost of the Turks[citation needed]. The town was conquered by Bayezid I, a sultan of the Ottoman Empire, in his Danubian campaign of 1393. The construction of a fortress was begun here during the reign of Murad IV, but by 1650 only the the fortress' foundation walls and towers were standing. In the 17th century, it occasionally served as the winter headquarters for the Grand Vizier of the Turks during their wars with Russia. The town was bombed by the Russians in 1854[citation needed].