Enciclopedia Cattolica Vol. IV, 1950 Geography & dioceses States, regions and cities

Durostor (Silistra)

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Also known as: Italian: Dorostol, Dristra, Silistria

DUROSTOR (SILISTRA). - A city on the Bulgarian bank of the lower Danube, with the old name, perhaps Celtic, of Durostorm in Lower Moesia. It has been an episcopal see since the 4th century. After the Bulgarian conquest (ca. 700), after the conversion of the Bulgarians (865) and the death of Simeon under Peter (927-69), the Byzantines agreed for a short time to recognize the patriarchal title of the archbishop of D., which was then called Dristra, a name that became Is-dristra in the Greco-Turkish period. At that time it was also occupied for some time by the Romanian princes of Wallachia. Finally called Silistra, with a Bulgarian majority (ca. 1700 inhabitants in 1930), it was occupied by the Romanians from 1913 to 1944 together with the "quadrilateral" or Southern Dobruja.

Bibliography

BIBL.: V. N. Zlatarski and N. Staneff, Geschichte der Bulgaren, II, Leipzig 1918, passim.

Frédéric Tailliez

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Translated from the Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. IV (1950), col. 2012.

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Tailliez, Federico. “Durostor (Silistra).” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. IV, col. 2012. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1950. https://azioneromana.com/article/durostor-silistra.

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Tailliez, Federico. “Durostor (Silistra).” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. IV, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1950, col. 2012. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/durostor-silistra.

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  author    = {Tailliez, Federico},
  title     = {Durostor (Silistra)},
  booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
  volume    = {IV},
  pages     = {2012},
  note      = {Cited by column},
  publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
  address   = {Città del Vaticano},
  year      = {1950},
  url       = {https://azioneromana.com/article/durostor-silistra}
}

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