Medgidia

Medgidia ( Turkish originally Karasu, later mecidiye ) is a city in Romania, located in the district of Constanta in the Dobrogea region (Romanian Dobrogea ).

History

Medgidia was named after the Ottoman Sultan Abdülmecid I, who founded the city in 1856. Since then Medgidia is a center of Islam in Romania.

The city presents itself in its self-image as a cosmopolitan and well-connected industrial city that has evolved since 1950. In a self-description it says, " Romanians, Turks, Tatars, Macedonians, Greeks and Armenians were famous for their harmonious coexistence ". The oldest surviving structure in the city is the Abdul- Medgid Mosque, one of only two Islamic religious buildings in the city.

There is also a secondary Turkish school, which is co-sponsored by Turkey and the students next to the Romanian brings near the Turkish language. It is visited by Turkish and Tatar students. The taught in school Turkish is spoken in Turkey. A boarding school is also available. As a third language, English is taught.

Economy

In Medgidia there is a large machine factory. The city also has a transhipment port, situated on the right bank of the Danube-Black Sea Canal, which shortens the path from the Danube to the Black Sea to about 240 kilometers. The capacity of the plant amounts to 11.5 million tons. Other important economic sectors are agriculture and viticulture.

Structures

• Clinker the Lafarge plants Medgidia