Ottoman Empire, was a Turk who helped the Hungarian revolutionary Lajos Kossuth escape to Vidin at Ottoman Bulgaria in 1849, across the Danube river on a boat. Bego Mustafa's picture was often used for postcards from Ada Kaleh. He died 1910 with 104 years. He was the last Turkish Feudal Lord of Ada Kaleh. Other rich Turkish merchants until 1918 were Mehmet Ali, Hayri Salih, Hayri Husseyin, Hayri Ahmet etc. They sold souvenirs or owned cafes, but after 1918 they all left the Island. Ali Kadri was the richest Turk on Ada Kaleh, he was an orphan and a former Fisherman, later through his cigarette production he became very rich. He was a colorful personality, and was called Sultan of Ada Kaleh. He had a cigarette factory named Musulmana and his cigarettes were well known outside. (...) In the following years, the factory came to manufacture 17 types of cigarettes, as well as other products made in Ada-Kaleh. The company was a gold mine for the islanders. It had branches in Severin and Orsova, concluding contracts at the highest level, even as far as Turkey. The construction of the new buildings at Ada-Kaleh, which stretched from the main alley to the wharf until the war, was due to the initiatives of this company: Power Plant (1934), new houses, four pubs, a restaurant, a hotel (headquarters and for the public library), bakery, a popular bank, a mixed shop, a football field. By 1935, the population had reached about 700 inhabitants (...) Ali Kadri take the Tobacco from Bulgaria. He built a 24-room mansion with a Harem for his four wives, next the Mosque. Around 1945 he fled to Turkey together with his Family, to escape the communist regime in Romania, but his property was confiscated,. History The Habsburg monarchy built a Vauban-type fort there to defend it from the Ottoman Empire, and that fort would remain a bone of contention for the two empires. In 1699 the island came under Ottoman control, however, it was recaptured by the Austrians in the 1716–18 war, and the fortress of New Orșova was built by Austrian colonel . After a four-month siege in 1738 it became Ottoman again, followed by the Austrians re-conquering it in 1789, but they had to return the island with the Treaty of Sistova (1791), which ended the 1787–91 war between the Ottoman Empire and the Habsburg monarchy (and, by