The Great Brăila Island (Romanian: Insula Mare a Brăilei) is an island on the Danube river in the Brăila County, Romania. It has on average 57.9 km (36.0 mi) length and 18.6 km (11.6 mi) width, with a total area of 710 km2 (270 sq mi).[1] The two river branches which separate it from the mainland are Măcin Branch [ro] and Vâlciu Branch [ro].
Adjacent to the west across the Vâlciu branch is the Small Brăila Island (Romanian: Insula Mică a Brăilei, actually a chain of several islands within swampy area), separated from the mainland by Vâlciu and Cremenea Branch [ro].
Currently, 681.3 km2 (263.1 sq mi)—94.6% of the area of island—are occupied by agricultural terrains of which 70.84 km2 (27.35 sq mi) are irrigated and is protected by a dam having a length of 23.5 km (14.6 mi). On the island there are two communes, Frecăței and Mărașu, which have about 5,000 inhabitants. In the southwest is the village of Mărașu.
There was a series of swamps – Brăila Pond (Romanian: Balta Brăilei), until the Communist regime drained them and built dams using forced labour of political detainees and transformed it to an agricultural area. There were "re-education camps" at Grădina, Ostrov, Bandoiu, Lunca, Salcia, Stoienești, and Strâmba Veche. (See Brăila Pond labor camps.) The terrain proved to be fertile and it was declared a "success of Communism in Romania".
In 2018, it was announced that Hamdan Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, an investor from the United Arab Emirates, had purchased 57,000 hectares on the Island for agricultural development.[2]
^"Insula Mare a Brăilei va fi concesionată prin licitație internațională". www.wall-street.ro (in Romanian). Retrieved June 8, 2023.
^"Insula Mare a Brăilei va fi exploatată de un șeic Arab". România Liberă (in Romanian). July 3, 2018.
ReferencesEdit
Tudor, Mihai (July 26, 2005). . Ediție Specială (in Romanian). Retrieved June 5, 2023.
Tudor, Mihai (July 26, 2005). . Ediție Specială (in Romanian). Retrieved June 5, 2023.
Antoniu, Gabriela (August 4, 2005). "Bărăganul dintre brațele Dunării". Jurnalul Național (in Romanian). Retrieved June 5, 2023.
See alsoEdit
Cherneva, Toni; Rotariu, Oana. "Reflections on a dark past – the forced labour camps of the Danube Delta" (PDF). www.breiling.org. Retrieved May 22, 2021.
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