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The fortress, located 2 km from Enisala, on a limestone hill overlooking the Razim and Babadag lakes, was built in the second half of the fourteenth century, fo...
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The fortress, located 2 km from Enisala, on a limestone hill overlooking the Razim and Babadag lakes, was built in the second half of the fourteenth century, for military purposes, most likely by Genoese merchants, holders of the monopoly of navigation in the Sea. Black. It has an irregular polygonal plan, which follows the sinuosities of the terrain; the walls and bastions are preserved in some places on a height of 5-10 m. Integrated during the reign of Mircea cel Batran, the defensive system of Wallachia, the fortress was abandoned in the context of the Turkish rule north of the Danube (end of the century). XV) and as a result of the formation of sand cords that separate Lake Razim from the Black Sea.
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