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Sulina is the only free port on the Danube, and is much used for the transhipment into seagoing vessels of grain which is brought down the river in large lighters from Romania, Russia, Bulgaria, Serbia and Austria-Hungary. No agricultural produce is grown in its neighborhood, owing to the reed-covered swamps with which it is surrounded. Sulina is the headquarters of the technical department of the European Commission of the Danube . Large steamers navigate up to Galati and Braila. In 1901, 1411 steamers and sailing craft aggregating 1,830,000 tons register cleared from Sulina for European ports carrying, besides other merchandise, nearly 13,000,000 quarters of grain. Owing to the improvements effected by the European Commission, there is a depth of 24 ft. of water on the bar, and of 18 to 22 ft. in the fairway. A lighthouseAn aid for navigation and pilotage at sea, a lighthouse is a tower building or framework sending out light from a system of lamps and lenses or, in older times, from a fire. More primitive navigational aids were once used such as a fire on top of a hill o overlooks the estuary. The town contains the only English church in Romania.

The information in this article is old. Austria-Hungary doesn't even exist any more. It's questionable whether Sulina is the only free port on the Danube, or whether it's still a free port.

1 Population

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This article incorporates text from the public domain 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica. 1911 Britannica