Viziru

Viziru lies on the open plain southwest of Brăila, near the lower Danube. Local accounts place its foundation in the fifteenth century and associate its early inhabitants with families from Moldavia. During the Ottoman period the village lay in the country supplying the fortress of Brăila. An eighteenth-century account describes large flocks of sheep and obligations to provide hay and wood for the garrison's animals. The village's history reflects the close connection between pastoral life on the plain and the demands of the fortified river port.