GALATZ, a city of Rumania, capital of the department of Covurlui; on the left bank of the river Danube, 90 m. W. by N. of its mouth at Sulina. Pop. (193o) 101,148, including many Jews. The Danube is joined by the Seret 3 m. S.W. of Galatz, and by the Pruth 10 m. E. Galatz is built on a slight eminence among the marshes which line the intervening shore and form, beside the western bank of the Pruth, the wide but shallow mere called Lake Bratych (Bratesul). It is the seat of the Rumanian III. Army Corps, the Rumanian naval school, the bishopric of the Lower Danube, a prefecture, and the international commission for the control of the Danube (q.v.), the main Danubian shipping companies, and 3 Chambers of Commerce. It contains a cathe dral and many other churches; St. Mary's Church contains the tomb of Mazeppa. Galatz is connected by rail with Braila and Bucharest and the main Moldavian system. It has an important industry, manufacturing candles, wire, nails, soap, buttons and chemical products; it also possesses many saw-mills, paste-mills, flour-mills, roperies and petroleum refineries. It is the chief Rumanian port of entry for imports, and the chief port of export for timber, while in grain it comes second to Braila.