MANGALIA

mangalia, a town in the department of constantza rumania, situated on the black sea, and at the mouth of a small stream, the mangalia, 10 m. n. of the bulgarian frontier. pop. (1900), 1459. the inhabitants, among whom are many turks and bulgarians, are mostly fisherfolk. mangalia is to be identified with the thracian kallatis or acervetis, a colony of miletus which continued to be a flourishing place to the close of the roman period. in the 14th century it had 30,000 inhabitants, and a large trade with genoa.