Fortress Majidi-Tabia is located South of the town of Silistra. The second name of the fortress, the former Turkish Fort Abdul Majidi. Today the fortress is the best preserved of the six built by the Turks fortified settlements that comprised the fortified area, played an important role in the Crimean war (which lasted from 1853 to 1856), and Russo-Turkish wars, which took place from 1853 to 1856 and from 1877 to 1877 years.

The fortress was built to provide additional strengthening of the city, standing on the banks of the Danube, when he was the boundary of the Ottoman Empire. The idea of building a system of fortifications gave the German military leader Helmut fot Moltke, who visited the city in 1837.

The fortress was built from 1841 to 1853. Using the free labour of three hundred Bulgarians. The main artists were natives of the town of Dryanovo and the natives of Silistra – key masons. In these same years were also built Orthodox churches (the churches of solid stone) in Alfatar (district of Silistra) in 1846 and in Calipatria in 1847.

In 1847 the Sultan Abdul Majid, attracted by the construction of the fortress, arrived in the city to check the progress of the construction works. Thanks to his visit to the castle and received the name Majidi. The construction of the fortress was completed on the eve of the Crimean war. In the war, which began in 1853 with the battle of Silistra, the fortress played an important role. It is known that L. N. Tolstoy participated in the battles for Majidi-Tabiu.

The eight-meter high ramparts built in the shape of hexagons. Near the wall there was a ditch that was, and obstacle, and masking means. Fortress Majidi-Tabia has retained its interior and exterior fully, what makes it unique: the fortress of the Ottoman Empire in Bulgaria.