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16-473: The place is first mentioned as early as 17th century. Hacıdere belonged to Akkerman sanjak of Silistra Eyalet , or Kefe Eyalet where Akkerman sanjak was actually located. At Medieval times Akkerman, at that time known as Maurocastrum , was a trade port of Byzantine and later Genoese colonies out of the Southern coast of Crimea. In mid 18th century Hacıdere was a big populated place with a pier through which

32-543: A settlement that in 1795 accounted for 266 people and was part of Tiraspol okrug (district) in Voznesensk Namestnichestvo (vice-royalty). Ovidiopol was granted status of a supernumerary town ("zashtatny gorod"). In December of 1796 Voznesensk Namestnichestvo was liquidated and the territory became part of Novorossiya Governorate . In the beginning of 19th century Novorossiya Governorate was liquidated and Ovidiopol existed with Kherson Governorate until

48-739: The 1787–1792 Russo-Turkish War and was among the three key fortresses in the area along with Hacibey fortress in Odesa and Middle fortress in Tiraspol . The fortress had a specially built harbor and was intended to stand against the Ottoman Akkerman Fortress on the other side of the Dniester Estuary (liman). The location for the fortress was picked by the Russian field marshal Alexander Suvorov . Construction of fortress

64-664: The Black Sea coast, based on the claim of Dimitrie Cantemir in his Descriptio Moldaviae (1714–1716) that a local lake near Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi (probably the Dniester Liman itself, on whose eastern shore the town is located) was named in Romanian Lacul Ovidului ( Ovid's Lake ). In reality Ovid stayed in Tomis (today Romanian Constanta ). With the establishment of the fortress, around it appeared

80-523: The early 19th century: Ovidiopol Raion Ovidiopol Raion ( Ukrainian : Овідіопольський район ) was a raion (district) in Odesa Oblast of Ukraine. Its administrative center was the urban-type settlement of Ovidiopol . The raion was abolished and its territory was merged into Odesa Raion on 18 July 2020 as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced the number of raions of Odesa Oblast to seven. The area of Ovidiopol Raion

96-692: The end of World War I and the Russian Civil War . In 1920-1925 Ovidiopol was in Odesa Governorate . Until 18 July 2020, Ovidiopol was the administrative center of Ovidiopol Raion . The raion was abolished in July 2020 as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced the number of raions of Odesa Oblast to seven. The area of Ovidiopol Raion was split between Odesa and Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi Raions , with Ovidiopol being transferred to Odesa Raion. Until 26 January 2024, Ovidiopol

112-544: The former Principality of Karvuna , later Dobruja , Silistra was originally the Silistra Sanjak of Rumelia Eyalet . It was named after Silistra , since its governor often resided in this Danubian fortress. Around 1599, it was expanded and raised to the level of an eyalet likely as a benefit to its first governor-general ( beylerbeyi ), the khan of Crimea . It was centered on the regions of Dobruja , Budjak (Ottoman Bessarabia ), and Yedisan and included

128-679: The late 17th and early 18th centuries, a series of Russo-Turkish Wars truncated the eyalet in the east with Russia eventually annexing all of Yedisan and Budjak to the Danube by 1812. Edirne Eyalet was constituted from south of Silistra Eyalet in 1830 . With Ottoman administrative reforms of 1864 the Silistra Eyalet was reconstituted as the Danube Vilayet . According to Sancak Tevcih Defteri , eyalet consisted of eight sanjaks between 1700 and 1730 as follows: Sanjaks in

144-525: The newly built fortress as Ovidiopol. The fortress was built to protect entrance to Dniester from the Black Sea , cease Turkish attacks on Mykolaiv and Ochakiv and to serve as an intermediate storage of goods between Odesa and Dniester. The noble Cossack family of Skarzhinsky had real estate investments in Ovidiopol during this time. The town was named in 1795 after Ovid , the Roman poet exiled to

160-538: The towns of Varna , Kustendja (Constanța), Akkerman (Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi), and Khadjibey (Odesa) with its capital at the fortresses of Silistra (now in Bulgaria ) or Özi (now Ochakiv in Ukraine ). In the 17th century, Silistra Eyalet was expanded to the south and west to include most of modern Bulgaria and European Turkey including the towns of Adrianople (Edirne), Filibe (Plovdiv), and Vidin . In

176-553: Was an eyalet of the Ottoman Empire along the Black Sea littoral and south bank of the Danube River in southeastern Europe . The fortress of Akkerman was under the eyalet's jurisdiction. Its reported area in the 19th century was 71,140 square kilometres (27,469 sq mi). The Eyalet of Silistra was formed in 1593 as beylerbeylik of Özi ( Ukrainian : Очаків , Očakiv ) from territory of

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192-529: Was captured by Russians, the French military engineer André-Joseph Lafitte-Clavé who visited the area in late 18th century (1787) described that it took them around an hour to swim on a raft from Akkerman to Adzhider. Lafitte-Clavé noted that depth in Dniester in the area is around 10 ft (3.0 m). The Adzhider (a Russian adaptation) fortress was built sometime around 1793 (end of 1792) soon after end of

208-400: Was conducted a grain trade . During the 1768–1774 Russo-Turkish War , in 1769 Hacıdere was burned down by Zaporizhian Cossacks led by Petro Kalnyshevskyi . About twenty years later in 1789 (during the 1787–1792 Russo-Turkish War ) the revived town was stormed and captured by the Russian troops and by the 1791 Treaty of Jassy was transferred under the Russian administration. Just before it

224-635: Was conducting by engineer captain Rester as a star fort on design of Flemish military engineer François Sainte de Wollant . The official date of laying the first stone in the fortress is 15 June 1793. It was this date that in the Russian and the Soviet historiography was considered as the date of foundation. In 1795 the Russian Empress Catherine the Great by hers decree officially renamed

240-427: Was designated urban-type settlement . On this day, a new law entered into force which abolished this status, and Ovidiopol became a rural settlement. Ovidiopol is twinned with: Silistra Eyalet The Eyalet of Silistra or Silistria ( Ottoman Turkish : ایالت سیلیستره ; Eyālet-i Silistre ), later known as Özü Eyalet ( Ottoman Turkish : ایالت اوزی ; Eyālet-i Özi ) meaning Province of Ochakiv

256-403: Was split between Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi and Odesa Raions . According to the 2001 census, the majority of the population of the Ovidiopol district was Ukrainian -speaking (69.64%), with a minority of Russian speakers (27.76%). The last estimate of the raion population was 77,278 (2015 est.). At the time of disestablishment, the raion consisted of six hromadas : The population of

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