Founded in the 7th century BC under the name of Aegyssus, the city of Tulcea, laid out on seven hills like Rome, has been, since ancient times, an important harbor on Danube River, not far from its flowing into the Black Sea. The town was successively under Roman, Byzantine (5th-7th century), Genoese (10th-13th century) and Ottoman rule before finally being ceded to Romania in 1878. Once cosmopolitan, it has even today a multi-ethnic flavor thanks to the Lipovans and Turkish minorities.
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