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The archaeological sources, as well as the epigraphic and cartographic ones, mention that the Tulcea area was a stable community habitat which evolved from prehistory until today.

Dating from the VII-th century B.C., the town of Tulcea is mentioned for the first time by Diodor of Sicily (III-d century B.C.) under the name of Aegyssus ; this name comes from his founder the Get Carpyus Aegyssus mentioned himself by Ovidus in 2 episodes of "Ex Ponto". During the I-II-nd century A.C., Aegyssus served as a base for the Roman fleet, defending the Roman boarders.

After the fights from 12-15 B.C., the Romans conquered the town. They rebuilt it after their plans, their technique and architectural vision, reorganizing it.
The existing ruined walls and defending towers serve as a testimony of this. Also an inscription found at the Tulcea Museum of Archaeology mwntions the name Aegyssus for the town. The Aegyssus fortified town is mentioned also by other documents until the X-nth century: Notitia Episcopatum in political geography "De Thematicus".

Tulcea was later ruled by the Byzantine Empire (5th - 7th century), the Bulgarian Empire (681-c.1000; 1185-14th century) [1] [2] [3] [4], the Genoese (10th - 13th century), it was part of the local Dobrujan polities of Balik/Balica, Dobrotitsa/Dobrotici, and, for a brief while after 1390, ruled by the Wallachian Prince Mircea cel Bătrân.

In 1416 it was conquered by the Ottoman Empire, and awarded to Romania, together with the rest of Dobruja, in 1878.

As early as 1848, the German Ungewiter mentioned "a small shipward for 300 t river boats".

Tulcea found its present contours after the Independence war (1877-1878).
In 1860, when Tulcea became the province capital.

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