Bordei Verde is a village in Braila County, Romania located in the Muntenia region. It has a population of 1,559 people who are mostly Romanian and Orthodox Christian. The village was established in the mid-19th century near an inn called "At the Green Hut" located on the road from Braila. It grew stronger after 1864 when families were given land in the area. The main economic activities are agriculture, with crops like wheat, barley and rapeseed grown on the fertile land, and some industry including oil and natural gas extraction.
2. Braila County
Braila county is in the Muntenia region of Romania. It is bordered to the north by
Vrancea and Galati, Tulcea County to the east, south Constanta and Ialomita
counties and west of Buzau. The county is administered by the County Council
Braila and Braila is the municipality residence.
Historical development of administrative-territorial organization
Throughout the history of the county administrative organization has
evolved sinuously, through several reorganizations of the administrative-
territorial components. Braila county is first mentioned in 1481 in a charter of
Stephen the Great. County administrative entitarte disappears as 1540 with
the establishment of the Ottoman Empire “raia’s” Braila, villages that have
remained outside of the “raia” being embedded in County County Râmnic
Slam.
3. Bordei Verde
Bordei Verde is the village of residence of the village with the
same name in the county of Braila, Muntenia, Romania.
• Population
At the 2002 census, the village population was 1,559 people, almost
entirely Romanian. The vast majority of the population belong to the
Orthodox Christian worship in the village and there is a community day
Adventist worship belonging 7th (35 people).
4. History
Village Bordei Verde is based on the mid-nineteenth century, under the official name of
“Bordei Verde" designation which will remain recorded in official documents until 1931,
when it receives the present name. The exact timing of the establishment of the village is
not precisely known, but most likely it comes to 1858. The official attestation of the village is
linked to the emergence of a new area of the commune of Eforiei estates Civil Hospital,
which was located in the extension of the estate Filiu.
The first tenant of the new estates is John Abraham, who founded the village new estates
from any one 10 km northeast of Filiu, on the high road of Braila, near the pub "At the
cottage Green 'place known stopover on the way. The inn was housed in a hut covered with
earth, which grew summer grass, dug mound-Green Hut, located at the exit south of the
current village on the road to Tralee Filiu, near its intersection with DJ-211. Toponym origin
is confirmed by recent studies which show that the first documentary of the Green Hut name
dates from 1861 and is used continuously since then. Pub represent an important milestone
in Bărăganul Braila, is expressly stated on the map 1835 Staff of the Russian Army,
although without him mentioning a name: "the S.E. The Perişoara (Perişoru) ". That it be
uninterrupted for so long was due to its location at the 'edge of the world ", the traveler who
leave here having passed a portion of wild steppe, without meeting any one habitation to
Silistraru.
5. The village has grown stronger after 1864, when 107 of the 167
existing families appropriated land by rural Act of Alexandru Ioan Cuza.
1864 is also the year of creation and communes in an administrative
level, by applying the law of administrative-territorial division, saw the
establishment of the present territory and Green-hut villages Filiu, the
village became the residence of the village Bordei Verde homonyms.
Significant changes in the structure of the village would appear
from the application of the agrarian reform of 1921. The main
effect, locally, of this law was to the emergence of new
settlements, the future Vintileşti village in the east of the Bordei
Verde Village. The village was created to set the inhabitants of
the mountainous area of Prahova and Buzau counties, which
were given land with land after Bordei Verde expropriation estate
belonging to Civil Hospital Eforiei
6. Economy
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Being a town located in the lowlands, agricultural activities are
predominant in the structure of economic activities in the village of
Green Hut. Agriculture is the main occupation of the villagers.
Agricultural Fund includes the village in the vast majority of high
quality arable land, suitable cultivation in particular, the following
categories of plants:
• Cereal - wheat, barley, rye, corn, etc.
• Technical and industrial plants - rape, soybean,
sunflower, etc.
7. In the recent past is also cultivated vegetables and beets, but in recent years has
almost given up these crops. After 1990 they were abolished vine plantations
belonging to former CAP, and new plantations were established by peasants given
land by the Land Law. Also in the same period mulberry plantations they were
abolished (in the south and north of the former village Vintileşti) with waiver of
silkworms. Animal husbandry sporadically, mostly family, subsistence, well below
the growth potential had. Industry is represented mainly by mining, with two main
components:
• Extraction of oil - the perimeters Bordei Verde and West;
• Extracting natural gas (associated gas) - in West Bordei Verde’s perimeter.
