What’s the name of this huge land between the Danube? Is it a river island? I find it interesting that nobody lives there and it’s quite a big area visible from space. (I’m not from Romania btw)

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  2. It’s called Balta Ialomiței (Ialomița’s pond). Not to be confused with Brăila’s great island, which is the other big one to the north.

    No one lives there because it’s been flooded many times in the past.

  3. It was inhabited but I dont reckon if starting with communism or ealier. Inhabited meaning few houses and few families which were usually connected with the vileages nearby and not as individual sentlements (down of Borcea there a few more Jegalia, Iezeru, Unirea etc). My father was born in the pond. They even had a primary school. i really dont know at the moment why his family was in the pond to start with, if to construct dams and agriculture because they wanted or they were deported. (This area of Baragan is where the banat and mehedinti people where deported in the 50’ and Piatra/Pietrisoara which is an old small sentlement united now with Borcea was founded by these people).

  5. Fun fact, I learned to swim in the northern branch of the Danube, known then as the ‘dead’ branch because it could not be used for ship navigation. I also learned that day that it’s not a good idea to learn to swim in a body of water filled with farm and sewage runoff. I was on the verge of death for a few days after.

  10. fishermen used to live there. my grandfather ran away from home and lived with them. cega/nisetru soup

  11. It was a wetland until the 60s when the communist government decided to drain it and reclaim it for agriculture. There were no significant settlements before that as it wasn’t a suitable location to live.

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