Nova Cherna is a village on the Danube

Danube

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, in northeastern Bulgaria

Bulgaria

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, part of Tutrakan Municipality

Tutrakan Municipality

Tutrakan Municipality is a municipality in Silistra Province, Northeastern Bulgaria, located along the right bank of Danube river in the Danubian Plain...

, Silistra Province

Silistra Province

Silistra Province is a province of Bulgaria, named after its main city - Silistra. It is divided into 7 municipalities with a total population, as of December 2009, of 127,659 inhabitants....

. The current name ("New Cherna") is derived from the commune of Cerna

Cerna, Tulcea

Cerna is a commune in Tulcea County, Romania. It is composed of four villages: Cerna, General Praporgescu, Mircea Vodă and Traian.Situated in a hilly landscape 55 km from the city of Tulcea and 25 km from Măcin, the village of Cerna had at the 2002 Romanian Census a population of 2,427, and...

 in Northern Dobruja

Northern Dobruja

Northern Dobruja is the part of Dobruja within the borders of Romania. It lies between the lower Danube river and the Black Sea, bordered in south by Bulgarian Southern Dobruja.-Geography:...

. A nature reserve

Nature reserve

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 named Kalimok Brashlen is located near the village.

After the fall of the Ottoman

Ottoman Empire

The Ottoman EmpireIt was usually referred to as the "Ottoman Empire", the "Turkish Empire", the "Ottoman Caliphate" or more commonly "Turkey" by its contemporaries...

 power in the Balkans in 1877, the village was included in Bulgaria, but the Treaty of Bucharest (1913) awarded it to Romania

Romania

Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeastern Europe, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian arch, bordering on the Black Sea...

. After a brief Bulgarian rule during World War I

World War I

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, it was reverted to Romanian administration by the Treaty of Neuilly

Treaty of Neuilly

The Treaty of Neuilly-sur-Seine, dealing with Bulgaria for its role as one of the Central Powers in World War I, was signed on 27 November 1919 at Neuilly-sur-Seine, France....

, the village finally being retroceded to Bulgaria by the Treaty of Craiova

Treaty of Craiova

The Treaty of Craiova was signed on 7 September 1940 between the Kingdom of Bulgaria and the Kingdom of Romania. Under the terms of this treaty, Romania returned the southern part of Dobruja to Bulgaria and agreed to participate in organizing a population exchange...

in 1940.