Mehadia - (مهادیه; Mehadiye; ro/hu. Mehadia, bg. Мехадия)
Small fortress (palanka) in Banat.
Location - Southwestern Romania, N 44° 54' 3 E 22° 22' 1
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First attacked by Ottomans in 1395, during the reign of Bayezid 1.
On 30 August 1738 (Mahmud 1.) Ottoman forces under Hacı İvaz Paşa retook Mehadia, Adakale ve Yeni Palanka fortresses from Austria.
- НБКМ Ор. 316A/27