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Bră·i·la

 (brə-ē′lə)
A city of southeast Romania on the Danube River near the Ukrainian border. It was taken by the Turks c. 1540 and finally awarded to Romania in 1829.
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Brăila

(Romanian brəˈila)
n
(Placename) a port in E Romania: belonged to Turkey (1544–1828). Pop: 192 000 (2005 est)
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Bră•i•la

(brəˈi lɑ)

n.
a port in E Romania, on the Danube River. 243,000.
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A Romanian man crashed his car into the front doors of a shopping mall in the Danube river city of Braila on Sunday, injuring seven people including two children, police said.
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BAS was first founded as a Bulgarian Literary Society, BLS, by a General Assembly, which met on October 12, 1869 in Romania's Braila since Bulgaria was then under Ottoman rule.
Russian metals and mining group Mechel (MCX:MTLR) has closed the acquisition of a majority interest in Romanian steel smelter SC Laminorul SA Braila for US USD20m (EUR14.5m), the Romanian antitrust watchdog said Wednesday.
Member states had originally agreed in November that the country-wide import stop should be 'regionalised' to some six Romanian provinces (Tulcea, Constanta, Galati, Braila, Ialomita and Calarasi).
This news comes after weeks of alarm over the level of the river and after Romanian authorities announced extreme flooding alert Monday in eastern Romanian Danube towns of FeteAti, BrAila and Galati.