About Yusuf Isa Halim
Lived 1894 – 1982 (aged 87–88). Yusuf Isa Halim was a Romanian linguist, poet and schoolteacher.
Yusuf Isa Halim (also transliterated in Romanian as Iusuf Isa Halim; ) (1894–1982) was a Dobrujan-born Tatar poet, schoolteacher and linguist known for authoring 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.
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Who was Yusuf Isa Halim?
Nogai Tatar, poet
When was Yusuf Isa Halim born?
Yusuf Isa Halim was born in 1894 in Ciocârlia.
When did Yusuf Isa Halim die?
Yusuf Isa Halim died in 1982 in Medgidia.
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Yusuf Isa Halim was a linguist, poet and schoolteacher.
What nationality was Yusuf Isa Halim?
Yusuf Isa Halim was Romanian.
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