Enisala Citadel

Enisala

 

Enisala citadel is found close to the town having the same name, being situated on a hill in the area of Razim and Badabag lakes. It was built having a military, defensive purpose and to watch the roads on the water and on land, in the second half of the 14th century. As the historical evidences show the citadel was built for the controlling of the naval traffic, having by those times the navigation monopoly on the Black Sea Coast.

The citadel also named Yeni-Sale has an irregular form of a poligine, following the sinuosity of the massive where it is situated. As an architectonic element the bastion of the main gate is remarked, of oriental origins, having a double arcade, that could be often found in Middle Ages and used by the Byzantines on different buildings in the Balcanic Half Island, but also in Tarile Romane on the Neamtului citadel, Saint Nicolaus Church from Curtea de Arges and the Moldovian monasteries founded by Stefan the Great.

During Mircea cel Batran the citadel was part of the defensive system of Tara Romaneasca, following that after the conquest of Dobrogea by the Turkeys to be installed a military Ottoman garrison. Its importance fades away and it is abandoned when the Ottomans reach Cetatea Alba and Chilia.

 

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