The tsar later denies Romania the fortress…

July 1878 CE

The tsar later denies Romania the fortress of Silistra, the strategic key to Dobruja on the south bank of the Danube, thereby deepening Romania's distrust of Russia.

Fought over several times in the Russo-Turkish War, Silistra passes to Bulgaria in 1878.

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