Ada Kaleh
Ada Kaleh was a small island on the Danube, located in Romania, that was submerged during the construction of the Iron Gates hydroelectric plant in 1970.Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Ilovița and Tekija.
Tekija
Village
Photo: Nicu farcas, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Tekija is a village in the municipality of Kladovo in eastern Serbia. According to the 2002 census, the village has a population of 967 people. Tekija is an important strategic and tourist point on the Danube River. Tekija is situated 5 km southwest of Ada Kaleh.
Eșelnița
Village
Photo: Nicu farcas, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Eșelnița is a village, which is situated 7 km west of Ada Kaleh.
Ada Kaleh
- Type: Ruins
- Description: island
- Categories: island and historic site
- Location: Orșova, Mehedinți County, Banat, Romania, Balkans, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
44.71667° or 44° 43′ northLongitude
22.45° or 22° 27′ eastOpen location code
8GP4PC8X+MXOpenStreetMap ID
node 959801974OpenStreetMap feature
historic=ruinsWikidata ID
Q346141
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Vlax Romani—“Ada Kaleh” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “أدا قلعة”
- Arabic: “أطة قلعة”
- Bulgarian: “Ада Кале”
- Bulgarian: “Адакале”
- Catalan: “Ada Kale”
- Catalan: “Illa de l’Annexió”
- Catalan: “Shans adasi”
- Cebuano: “Insula Ada-Kaleh”
- Chinese: “阿達卡萊島”
- Croatian: “Ada Kale”
- Czech: “Ada Kale”
- Danish: “Ada Kaleh”
- Dutch: “Ada Kaleh”
- Esperanto: “Ada Kaleh”
- Esperanto: “Adakale”
- French: “Ada Kaleh”
- German: “Ada Kaleh”
- Greek: “Άντα Καλέ”
- Greek: “Άντα Καλέχ”
- Hebrew: “אדה קלה”
- Hungarian: “Ada Kaleh”
- Italian: “Ada Kaleh”
- Italian: “isola Ada Kaleh”
- Macedonian: “Ада Кале”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Ada Kaleh”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Ada Kaleh”
- Norwegian: “Ada Kaleh”
- Persian: “آدا کاله”
- Polish: “Ada Kaleh”
- Polish: “Ada-Kaleh”
- Romanian: “Ada Kaleh”
- Romanian: “Ada-Kaleh”
- Romanian: “insula Ada Kaleh”
- Romanian: “Insula ada kaleh”
- Romanian: “Insula Ada Kaleh”
- Russian: “Ада Кале”
- Russian: “Ада-Кале”
- Serbian: “Ада Кале”
- Serbian: “Ада-Кале”
- Serbian: “Адакале”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Ada Kale”
- Spanish: “Ada Kaleh”
- Turkish: “Adakale”
- Ukrainian: “Ада-Кале”
- Vlax Romani: “Ada Kaleh”
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Notable Places Nearby
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