Tutrakan

Toutrakan ( Bulgarian Тутракан ) is a town in the municipality of the same name in Silistra District / Oblast in northern Bulgaria. The city is situated on the right bank of the Danube, opposite the Romanian city Olteniţa.

Location

Toutrakan is located on the high bank of the Danube, about 433 km away from its mouth into the Black Sea. The city is located some 380 km north-east of the Bulgarian capital Sofia, about 120 km south-east of Bucharest, Romania, 60 km north-east of Ruse, 62 km west of Silistra and 70 km north of Razgrad.

History

The city was founded under Diocletian under the name Transmarisca.

Transmarisca is also a titular of the Roman Catholic Church. However, it is not currently occupied ( vacant).

The city Toutrakan (then called Turtukaj ) was in the course of the Russo- Turkish War 1768-74 and the Russo- Turkish War of 1806-12 19 of the Russian army under the leadership of Marshal Alexander Vasilyevich Suvorov later on 10 May 1773 at May 1810 occupied by Russian troops under the leadership of Andreas Burchard Friedrich von Sass.