**BRAILOFF** or **IBRALIA**, a town of European Turkey, in the province of Wallachia, on the left bank of the Danube, 100 miles N.E. of Bucharest, and about the same distance from the Black Sea. As the channel of the river is deep between Brahilow and the sea, vessels of considerable burthen can sail up to the town. Its harbour, protected by a small island from the ice that drifts down the river in large quantities in winter, affords complete security to the shipping. In 1770 the town was taken by the Russians, and almost razed to the ground, but it has been rebuilt, and many streets and edifices added, which its increasing trade and importance rendered indispensable. Its trade, which consists principally in the produce of the surrounding country, such as wheat, barley, maize, hides, tallow, timber, and tobacco, has of late years increased with surprising rapidity. The exports of grain, from 200,000 qrs. in 1838, had increased in 1849 to more than a million qrs., of the value of about £450,000. The quality of the grain used to be considerably impaired by the damp of the pits in which it was kept, but of late years spacious warehouses have been erected, and the quality of the grain has greatly improved. The trade is managed chiefly by Greeks, but many English and other merchants are now engaged in it. Pop. about 8000.