Brăila

[ bruh-ee-lah ]

noun

1. a port in E Romania, on the Danube River. 203,983.

Brăila

/ brəˈila /

noun

1. a port in E Romania: belonged to Turkey (1544–1828). Pop: 192 000 (2005 est)

Example Sentences

Ionescu duly obliged with a venomous diatribe in which he chastised the author he had once praised and encouraged for daring to assert that a Jew could belong to any national community: “It is an assimilationist illusion, it is the illusion of so many Jews who sincerely believe that they are Romanian … Remember that you are Jewish! Are you Iosif Hechter, a human being from Brăila on the Danube? No, you are a Jew from Brăila on the Danube.”

From The Guardian