Galaţi
Galaţi or Galatz , city (1990 pop. 326,139), E Romania, on the lower Danube. It is a regional administrative and economic center and a major inland port, home of the Romanian Danube flotilla. Grain and timber are the chief exports. The city is also an important rail junction and has a large iron and steel plant and the nation's largest shipyard. Of medieval origin, Galaţi became an international trading center in the 18th cent. and was a free port from 1834 to 1883. It was the seat (1856-1939) of the European Danube Navigation Commission. In 1944, German troops devastated the town and killed more than half the population. Galaţi is the see of an Orthodox bishop and is a cultural center. An agricultural college and a technical institute are in the city. The 17th-century Cathedral of St. George contains the tomb of Ivan Mazeppa.
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Galatz
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Romania: see Galaţi .
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Siretul
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...rising in the Carpathian Mts., W Ukraine, and flowing SE through E Romania to the Danube River at Galaţi. Its chief tributaries are the Bistriţa and Moldava rivers. Timber is floated on the river to Galaţi. It is sometimes called the Sereth River.
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Moldavia
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...south. In Romania it comprises roughly the modern administrative divisions of Bacău, Galaţi, and Iaşi. Suceava and Iaşi, its historic capitals, and Galaţi , its port on the Danube, are the chief cities. Moldavia, a fertile plain drained by...
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Romania
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...Braşov , Hunedoara , Iaşi , Oradea , Reşiţa , and Timişoara . Brăila , Galaţi , and Giurgiu are the main Danubian ports; Constanţa is the chief Black Sea port. Galaţi and Constanţa are resort cities in Romania's growing tourism industry...
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Danube
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...broadens again and forms most of the Romania-Bulgaria border before swinging north near Silistra and passing through E Romania to Galaţi , where it divides into an expansive (c.1,000 sq mi/2,590 sq km) delta before entering the Black Sea. The northernmost branch...
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