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ID: 7004038
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7004038
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Brăila (inhabited place)  Brăila (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 45 17 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 45.2833  decimal degrees
Long: 027 58 00 E  degrees minutes   Long: 27.9667  decimal degrees

Note: Was important port since Greek times; burned by the Turks in 1462 & by Stephen the Great of Moldavia in 1470; occupied by Turks 1554-1828, then heavily damaged in Russo-Turkish War; returned to Walachia, & rebuilding with new city plan was begun in 1835.

Names:
Brăila (preferred,C,V)
Ibraila (H,O)  ............ Turkish name
Brayla (H,V)  ............ name first documented in 1368 in transportation & trade license granted to Brașov merchants
Drinago (H,V)  ............ name first documented in a Spanish geographical work from 1350

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Europe (continent)  ....  Europe (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Romania (nation)  ........  Romania (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Brăila (county)  ............  Brăila (county) (P)
Hierarchy of Brăila (inhabited place)  ................  Brăila (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  settlement dates from Greek times
town (C)
county seat (C)
port (C)

Sources and Contributors:
Brăila..........  [BHA, VP Preferred]
.................  Cambridge World Gazetteer (1988)
.................  Times Atlas of the World (1992) 33
.................  USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
.................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
Brayla..........  [VP]
.................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) II, 465
Drinago..........  [VP]
.................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) II, 465
Ibraila..........  [VP]
.................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) I, 117
Subject: .....  [BHA, VP]
..................  Cambridge World Gazetteer (1988)
..................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) I, 117
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) II, 465
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1992) 33
..................  USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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