Why is Dobruja/Dobrogea split? 

People. Please stop your childish arguments Bulgarians were *not* the majority population of Dobruja at the time. But the territory was seen as kind of Bulgarian. And I now understand Dobruja isn't pronounced "do-bru-ya". I shouldn't have assumed that. Wanna make that clear! And in the future I will do my best to be better

0:44 This moment was funny. Dobruja is literally the only region where they are not split with the river.

As a Bulgarian, these were tough times. Thankfully, modern Bulgaria and Romania have way better relations and are even allies, I hope the best for Bulgaria and our Northern neighbors! 🇧🇬🤝🇷🇴

The J is pronounced as a J. Nice video otherwise

The reason romania didn't want dobrogea initially was that it was a poor region with a very small population (a few thusands, mostly turks and bulgarians) while southern bessarabia was richer and well integrated. Still, Romania was forced to accept the trade. After that, romanians started to invest and bring people into the region, transforming it into what it is today.

As far as I know (correct me if this is wrong) the St.Petersburg Protocol was Bulgaria giving Silestria and 3 km around it to Romania in exchange for neutrality in the First Balkan War. Bulgaria accepted but didn't went through with giving Silestria, so Romania used this as a justification to join the Second Balkan War and take all of Southern Dobruja.

i saw the thumbnail and thought it was a history matters video

Silistra mentioned!!! Very nice video btw.

hi from romanian dobruja, i visited both dobrujas, in both romania and bulgaria and they are pretty nice , i might even say that the nature in southern dobruja is more similar to mediteranean climate, than in northern parts.

According to Wikipedia, Bulgarians were not the majority population in 1877 in Northern Dobruja. They represented max 13%; under Romanians (21%). Most of the population was Turks and Tatars (Muslims) at 51%.

Pretty interesting video nice work

It was a TURKISH/TATAR majority. On third pkace was Romanians. On forth, Bulgarians. The Cadrilater (South Dobrodja) was given to Romania in compensation for Macedonia, who was splited to Greece, Serbia snd Bulgaria and the Aromanians lost all their rights.

In 1878, the majority population in Dobrogea were the Turks and Tatars and the province was an oriental one. After them, were the Romanians, and after them were the Bulgarians. All the reports from that period state this fact, even Bulgarian historians agree on this one (Ljubomir Miletic for example) and say that the Bulgarians in Dobrogea were recent arrivals as a result of the Russian-Ottoman wars. When russian armies retreated after a war in the Balkans, they were bringing along Bulgarians to populate Bugeac and other territories north of the Black Sea. The colonists that they were bringing were given certain privileges and when they were cut, many of them crossed the border back in the Ottoman territory, in Dobrogea. That's why most of the Bulgarians in Dobrogea were situated in the north of the province (Tulcea, Babadag) and not in the south, closer to Bulgaria. The entire Black Sea coast was populated with a vast majority of Turks. After 1878 and until 1913, the southern part of Dobrogea (Cadrilater/ Dobrogea Noua) was colonized with Bulgarians, and in 1913 it was kind of 50-50 Turks and Bulgarians, but the Turks were the majority. Add on that a very intense bulgarization policy that the Bulgarian authorities implemented. The Turks were happy when Romania took the region.

I can already see that you, my guy will blow up at some point. Just hold onto what you're doing and continue doing it. 👍❤️

I never thought about this. Really loved the video. You got yourself a new subscriber!

Great video felt really authentic

Pretty clean and simple explanation, you earned a new sub

James Bizzonet is the one running this channel.

A very good overview of the recent history of this region in the Balkans. Cheers to you my friend! 🍻

Very well explained! As a romanian I can say you covered the modern history of the region in a very organised sense, reminded me of Oversimplified! Good job!

as a half bulgarian who while commenting haven't watch this vid i guess that the reason is that under ottoman empire it was with a big bulgarian people ther. in the russo turkish war romania got indepandanve and russia offerd them this land in exchange for basserabia. after bulgaria got indepandance they claimed the land. in ww2 both countries were pro german and right wing, bulgaria wanted this land and germany made romania sign a treaty of craiova if i'm not wrong. they moved the bulgarians in northen dobruja to south and romanian in southern dobruja to the north and it stayed like that, hope i'm right EDIT: damn i was preaty much right

I see you going far brother, sub number 31 here, keep it up!

This man deserves more subscribers

great video!

Great video keep it up lil bro

Nice to be the 100th sub for this channel

Good video keep making these

Congrats from your first commenter bro! Your channel is growing very fast!!

Very nice video, keep it going

great video! keep it up, new sub

1:24"In the modern sence at least" That's a very important destinction

Really well put video, Had some stuff even I as a S. Dobrujan didn't know

Interesting video dude. You could show some ethnic composition charts when taking about population exchanges and to give an overview.

I finally know why is the region that I live in is spilt. Thanks for information!

i was born in dobrogea and my father's families all were born in dobrogea and even we had some properties in Bulgaria once the Bulgarians wanted to have all of the lands of Romanians they gave it for money to people that own this lands so they could use them and make some stuff that would benefit Bulgaria so my father's family got tones of money given and ever sense we live in an apartment in dobrogea and life is good as we didn't need them as we didn't want to move to Bulgaria

Upon searching for my family tree, I realized that my great grandparents were from this region, Dobruja. They then migrated to Turkey

You did this all on Flipaclip. Pretty gooe!

Dobrogea in 1877 didn't have a bulgarian majority. There lived tatars, turks, bulgarians, romanians, aromanians, greeks, so on.

Now make a video why banat is divided

Another note, you shouldn't show Yugoslavia or occupied Austria as having any part of the Warsaw pact, allied and soviet troops left Austria in 1955 on the condition that it be a perpetually neutral country, and Yugoslavia was a founding member of the non-aligned movement in 1948

They toked what was ours and give what wasn't.

As a romanian can I ask for "why is Bucovina split" next?

I am slamming the underrated button so flipping hard right now. I love this

Thank you! I always thought why Southern Dobrudzha, but it turns out the northern part is in Romania

nice video and its pretty accurate

why do you have so little subs?? this is awesome sauce

Nice video. It's not "according to one source", Romanians really didn't want Northern Dobruja because it was seen as Bulgarian territory, though that it had a Bulgarian majority couldn't be further from truth as in 1878 it had 10% Bulgarians and 20% Romanians (rest Turks, Tatars and others). Also L for calling Aromanians and Megleno-Romanians "stuff that doesn't matter to us at the moment"

really good videos, underrated creator

Good video, now my next question is why didn’t the ussr stop Albania from leaving the Warsaw pact?

How difficult would it've been to look up the pronounciation of the region you're making a video of

I like that the video is just like history matters

Bulgaria promised Silistra to Romania in exchange to its neutrality in the Balkan wars, but then refused to abide by the agreement. It wasn't Romania going to the big powers to obtain their agreement to annex the region, but rather Bulgaria not keeping their word, which prompted Romania to attack it in the 3rd Balkan war and seize the whole southern part of the region, which they renamed to "Cadrilater".

Good video but one small thing, You dont need to use j to indicate a "y" sound when writing in Turkish since we don't use j to mean y

Nice video bro. Btw i live in the North of Dobruja and we here in Romania call IT Dobrogea

the thing that we were most mad at for dobruja is when South dobruja was taken from us during the balcan War and First World War

Cool video, but there are mistakes, the north part of Dobruja didn't have a bulgarian majority in 1878

It is not that Romania did not want Dobruja. It did and it would have taken it all in 1878 (as it had been promissed initially) but Romania could not accept the annezation of S Bessarabia by Russia. It was an unacceptable precedent. Dobruja had been latin (daco-roman = proto-romanian) long before the first slav, bulgar turk or ottoman turk ever showed up and before being annexed by the ottomans it had been part of Wallachia (Romania) for over a third of a century. Edit: whenever I reply to the bulgarian who replied to my comment YTdeletes it so I will post it as an edit. We are not talking about the Danube province of the Ottoman Empire, which included northern Dobruja, southern Dobruja and all of nothern Bulgaria. Northern Dobruja was 21% romanian 13% bulgarian. So it was a more romanian province than bulgarian Source: K. Karpat, : Correspondance Politique des Consuls. Turguie (Tulqa). 1 (1878) 280-82 (Turkish author)

Arată adevărul nu numai despre Dobrogea, dar și restul Bulgariei și majoritatea limbi vorbite la 1912

Craiova treaty is very important because it resolves one and for all every territorial, political and ethnic disputes between our countries, more than 80 years we are friends and allies, maybe one day West Balkans and the Russian countries will find the formula for peace, like us.

well done

Hi, I just wanna correct something rq It's pronounced da-BRU-jer, not da-BROO-ya Also, look for an image editing program that lets you do layers, it helps a tonne with those white dots you get where colours meet when you use the fill tool

Watching this video gives off a lot of History Matters vibes.

cool vid

The map shown at the start of the video with the "Provinces of Balkans" is not consistent, Transylvania is too large (Maramureș, Crișana and Banat included), also Banat should be spit in 3 (RO SRB HU) and not part of Voïvodina (just an administrative region not a historical province) - Hints for possible new videos.

History definitely matters

Thanks man, you liked my country Macedonia and you say the name real of my country Macedonia 🇲🇰❤️❤️❤️

Because russian greed in 1878.

for a small youtuber you are really good

It's, actually, Dobrudža, or Dobruja (with j. as in jam). Or, Dobrogea (in Romanian). Regardless of the language, the main stress for Dobruja is always on the first syllable.

by the way, Thrace is divided between Bulgaria, Turkey and Greece, you can make a video about it as well. In principle, Thrace has a Bulgarian population, but it is no longer or is no longer considered Bulgarian

No region/land is written in stone. These are just names. What makes the land is the people.

0:04 im more curious about that region that covers all of macedonia, and has a part of greece and bulgaria

In Bulgarian Dobruja means Good {farm-able) land

I am from the port city of Constanta in Northen Dobruja and I liked the video a lot! Nice work!

Bulgaria wasnt looseing the seacond balkan war when romania joined the war. It was because of romania joining the war and marching into bulgaria unoposed wich conviced the ottomans to also join leading to bulgaria looseing the war

the name of Dobroja comes from "dobro" means good and "ja" signifys I or in other words "I´m good"

where is the map of all the regions from?

I love Romania, I‘m happy our neighbor is becoming a normal country again, pray for us brothers, because we need miracle to catch up with you!🇧🇬❤️🇷🇴

look at czech and poland, we have split a city name Těšín. now its Český Těšín a Polský těšín/Czeski Cieszyn i polski Cieszyn

Romanian banat not on your map of regions in the Balkans, it’s another interesting split one, with ethnicities from Germans to Lutheran Slovaks and Catholic Bulgarians

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Great video!

Banat is also another region split by Romania and Serbia.

Business was done only with Romanian territories!

And no civilians were harmed

What in the unholy hell is that first map?? Where's the distinction between Kvarner and Dalmatia, between East and West Herzegovina, between Slavonia, Baranja and Croatia proper, between Banat and Transylvania between Kosovo anD Metohia?...

As a Dobrogea resident I think the ethnic tatar, russian (from the danube delta) and aromanian communities also play an important role in this regions history, and also, the fact that in ancient history it belonged to the roman province of Moesia, and not Dacia. But still, interesting video.

Can you do a video about sandžak

da sub button glowed when he said subscribe

The only reason Romania invaded in the second Balkan War is because Bulgaria signed a treaty to give up the territory and didn't follow up with the promise.

At the time southern bessarabia was more advanced than dobruja

every summer romanians reclaim that part of dobruja, because they go there as tourists, so much so that they outnumber the locals...

I am born in Dobrudja. Stalin gave the northern part - Kustendja (now Constanz) there were 0 Romanians and even Romania did not want it as they did not have any people there .

This is actually hilarious, first sound thought went through "But those lands are not filled with out people we shouldn't take them" and after they got forced to accept the land, greed set in "YESSS!!!NOW GIVE US THE REST OF IT", these mf

Make a video about why Macedonia is split

Great videp but bulgarians were never a majority in northern dobrogea

everybody knows that silistra is rightfully turkish

History matters alt

next comes why is bucovina split? 😅

the j in dobruja is pronounced like a g not an i