Brăila is a city in Muntenia, eastern Romania, a port on the Danube and the capital of the Braila county, in the close vecinity of SpanishLibro de conoscimiento ("Book of knowledge"). This may have been an erroneous transcription of Brillago. In Greek documents of roughly that time the city is referred to as Proilabum or Proilava.
The town was controlled by Ottoman Turks from medieval times until 1878; the Turks called it Ibrail or Ibraila. The Turkish settlement was attacked, plundered, and burned by the forces of Stefan cel MareFebruary 2, 1470, repressing the forces of Radu cel Frumos, who was allied with the Turks.
The city's greatest period of prosperity was in the early 20th century, when it was an important port for merchandise coming and going from Romania.
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braila.net (http://www.braila.net/) (mostly in Romanian, but with some English language content (http://www.braila.net/citymain.html)) includes a Romanian_language a timeline (http://www.braila.net/cityhistmain.htm) of the city's history.
braila.org (http://www.braila.org/) (in Romanian) is also an extensive site about the city.
Braila is one of the 3 most important historical harbours on the Danube of Muntenia: Turnu, Giurgiu and Braila. During the 18th century it was one of the most important economical cities of Europe.
The Braila county is situated in the South-Eastern part of Romania, in a region of plain, having to the North a part of the Lower Siret River Meadow where to the South there is the Baragan Plain; to the West there are small parts of the Salcioara Plain and the Buzau Plain.
The Braila county is of an important tourist and balneotherapeutical interest, offering to tourists a lot of possibilities to see picturesque places, specifically to a plain as well as to the Danubian landscape.
Situated in the free to inundation meadow of the Danube River, surrounded by its branches, the Small Island of Braila is a joint zoological and botanic reservation.
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