Yusuf Isa Halim

Yusuf Isa Halim (also transliterated in Romanian as Iusuf Isa Halim; Romanian pronunciation: [juˈsuf iˈsa haˈlim]) (1894–1982) was a Dobrujan-born Tatar poet, schoolteacher and linguist known for authoring the first Romanian-Turkish dictionary.^[1][2][3]

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Born	1894 Bílbíl, today Ciocârlia, Constanța County, Romania
Died	1982 Medgidia, Constanța County, Socialist Republic of Romania
Nationality	Tatar
Occupation(s)	Poet, schoolteacher, linguist
Known for	He authored the first Romanian-Turkish dictionary.

Biography

Yusuf Isa was born in 1894 in Bílbíl, today officially known as Ciocârlia, a Nogai village situated in the Tatar countryside west of Mangalia, in Dobruja. He graduated in 1915 from the Medrese of Medğidiye/Medgidia and he served as a schoolteacher in Malşuwa/Abrud, Kavarna, Pazarjik, Bogaz-Kóy (Cernavodă). In 1930 he published in Pazarjik, now Dobrich in Bulgaria, the first Romanian-Turkish dictionary.^[1][2][3]

See also

• Tatars in Romania