Hârșova

Hârșova stands on the right bank of the Danube in northern Dobruja. The Roman settlement of Carsium grew around a fort here, overlooking the river on the frontier of Moesia and later Scythia Minor. An Ottoman register of 1570 counted sixty-nine guards in the castle town, alongside Muslim and Christian households. The fortress remained a target in wars along the lower Danube: Russian forces took it in 1809 and again in 1828.