Braila

Braila, or BRAHILOV, a river port of Roumania, on the left bank of the Danube, 10 miles above Galatz, and 142 NE. of Bucharest by rail. A free port till 1883, it exports large quantities of corn and other products. Of its twelve churches the chief is the Greek cathedral. The fortifications were dismantled in 1828. Pop. 46,716. Braila was burned by the Russians in 1711, and Gortschakoff crossed here in 1854.