The Lower Danube metropolitan area or Galați-Brăila metropolitan area is a proposed metropolitan area project. It will be formed from the cities of Galaţi and Brăila in Romania. Together they have a population of about 400,000 people. An alternate name could be Lower Danube.
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Famous quotes containing the words danube, metropolitan and/or area:
“The Danube to the Severn gave
The darkend heart that beat no more;
They laid him by the pleasant shore,
And in the hearing of the wave.”
—Alfred Tennyson (18091892)
“In metropolitan cases, the love of the most single-eyed lover, almost invariably, is nothing more than the ultimate settling of innumerable wandering glances upon some one specific object.”
—Herman Melville (18191891)
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—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)