Jun 19, 2021
5 min read
When A Piece Of Turkey Sank In The Danube River
The Ottoman paradise of Ada Kaleh was sacrificed to progress
Up until 1970, the tiny island of Ada Kaleh must have appeared to visitors as an illustration straight out of Arabian Nights: almonds and figs growing around colorful bazaars, rose fields, white minarets, men in anachronistic red fezzes sipping Turkish coffee under magnolia trees.
