The administrative organization of Brăila County during the occupation period (December 23-rd, 1916 - October 24-th, 1918)

Abstract

Unfavourable circumstances led, by the end of the year 1916, to the occupation of two thirds of Romania’s territory (as of 1913) by the German, Austrian-Hungarian, Turkish and Bulgarian troops. At the beginning of January 1917, Brăila County was occupied by the German army. The German headquarters reorganized the occupied territory in order to get the best economic profit of it. Administratively, the county was organized in the area of the Ninth Operational Army (Opertionsgebiet). Both the military rule and the administration of these counties were directly assigned to the supreme commander of the army of occupation. By the military decree of the General Headquarters (Z.B.V.) no. 52 from 22-nd of April 1917, the territories of the Danube army in Brăila County were divided into three regions: Silistraru, Viziru and Ianca. This paper tackles some aspects of the administrative organisation of Brăila County from 23 December 1916 to 24 October 1919 (both the German and the Romanian administrations).