Mahmudia - Travel & Tourism Guide Mahmudia - Roumanie

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This port town of 2,200 inhabitants is accessible by road. A legend tells of the origin of the village's Turkish-sounding name: one day, while visiting the delta, Sultan Mahmud fell in love with a girl and asked her to marry him. But her heart was already taken. The sultan ordered her to weave him a shirt that would withstand neither water nor fire, before sunset, or he would kill her lover. Desperate, the girl went to weep at the water's edge, when the Danube fairy appeared and offered her her own blouse. As evening fell, the girl ran to the sultan and shouted "Mahmud, ia!