Sulina

Sulina is the only city within the Romanian part of the Danube Delta at the mouth of Sulinaarms into the Black Sea. It has about 5,000 inhabitants.

History

The city is not connected to the Romanian road network and therefore only accessible by boat. She was already in Byzantine and later Genoese and Turkish time a major sea and river port in the 19th century even the seat of the European Danube Shipping Administration. Due to its isolated location and the construction of newer and greater Romanian Danube ports (for example, in Giurgiu or Galaţi ) the city lost in the 20th century massively important. So today is the unemployment rate about 40%.

The Old Lighthouse from 1802, some old mansions on the quay and the large cemetery bear witness to its past. Sulina has a many -kilometer-long sandy beach on the Black Sea, but tourism is still in its infancy.

Until 1948, the snake island belonged to Romania and to the city Sulina.

The chainage of the Danube was started " at the mouth at Sulina ". By the time the Danube Delta more areas were landed, so that the mouth in the Black Sea a few kilometers further, " before" the time specified kilometer " 0" is today. The height information along the Danube are related to the sea in Sulina to river kilometer 1075.