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Author: KONTOGEORGIS DIMITRIOS

History of banks

Abbreviations:

ANIC: Arhivele Naţionale Istorice Centrale

DJAN Brăila: Direcţia Judeţeană a Arhivelor Naţionale Brăila

dos: dosar

MIC: Ministerul de Interne-Comunale

Mocanu, Portul Brăila: Emil Octavian Mocanu, Portul Brăila de la regimul de porto-franco la primul război mondial (1836-1914), Brăila: Muzeul Brăilei-Editura Istros, 2012

MOR: Monitorul Oficial Român

Table 1

Banks established in Brăila (1845-1914).

Name	Year	Capital	Shareholders	Sources
Banca Filemborică [1]	1846	10.000 Dutch talers	See table 2	Cojocaru, I. (ed.), Documente privitoare la economia Ţării Romîneşti 1800-1850, vol. II, Bucureşti, 1959, pp. 867-872. See also ANIC/MIC, dos. 126/1846, ff. 6r-v, 17r.
Banca Brăilei (Banque de Braila)	1873	4.000.000 francs	See table 3	Καταστατικόν της Τραπέζης Βραΐλας [Statutes of the Banque de Braila], Braila: Typografeion P.M. Pestemalgioglu.
Banca Eustathiadis-Karalis and C-ie [2]	1873			Σύλλογοι, 6 (2 March 1873), p. 24˙ 7 (9 March 1873), p. 28˙ 10 (31 March 1873), p. 40˙ Κωνσταντινούπολις, 1337 (28 March 1873), p. 1.
Banca Lazaris-Millas [3]	1880s, 1901			DJAN Brăila/Tribunal judeţului Brăila, dos. 16/1881, ff. 1r-6r˙ MOR, 154 (10/22 October 1890), p. 3615 and 155 (11/23 October 1890), p. 3620.
Creditul Belgo-Român	1899	2.500.000 lei	See table 4.	Statutele Creditului Belgo-Român, Brăila: Tipo-Lith. P.M. Pestemalgioglu, 1899˙ Mocanu, Portul Brăila, p. 422.
Banca Portului	1911	20.000 lei	See table 5.	Mocanu, Portul Brăila, p. 422-423˙ DJAN Brăila Tribunal-Secţia I, dos. 189/1911, ff. 4-11.
Banca Danubiană	1912	500.000 lei	See table 6.	Mocanu, Portul Brăila, p. 423˙ DJAN Brăila Tribunal-Secţia I, dos. 28/1912, f. 27.

Table 2:

Shareholders of the Banca Filemborică (1845-1846)

Nr.	Name	Shares
1	Βοσκόβ Γ.	8
2	Ιωβανάκης Ιακώβ Ν.	8
3	Ξανθός Αναστάσιος	3
4	Παππάζογλους Ιωάννης Χ.	3
5	Πανάς Κωνσταντίνος	3
6	Armelin Nicolo	4
7	Περδικίδης Η.	3
8	Δενδρινός Δ.	3
9	Κάλφογλους Χρ.	4
10	Παππάζογλους Κ. Πράσης	2
11	Tullier	2
12	Λουκόπουλος Π.	2
13	Κωσταντινοπουλος Β.	2
14	Φιλίτης Πέτρος	2
15	Πιτζιπιός Δ.	2
16	Καρούσος Δ.	3
17	Μησιρλή Διαμαντής	4
18	Μπενλής Β.	2
19	Κωσταντουλάκης Π.Φ.	2
20	Καράλης Στέφανος Ν.	2
22	Μαυρήκης Ρόκος	2
21	Τζιαβίδης Γεώργιος	4
22	Σέρρος Ιω.	2
23	Σερδάρης Ζάρκας Χαρ.	4
24	Ν. Μπαλαζέσκος	2
25	Ν. Νεγροπόντης	2
26	Χρ. Πεταλάς	4
27	Γ. Λεμονής	4
28	Γ. Νικολόπουλος	3
29	Ιω. Φαράγγας	4
30	G. Marzikich	3
31	Θ. Μπαστάκης	2
32	Δ. Καβαδίας	3
33	Ἀριστοτέλης Δι(ε)βάνης	2
34	Βασίλειος Σκούλλης	2

Source: ANIC/MIC, dos. 126/1846, ff. 6r-v, 17r.

Note: The orthography of the names has been retained.

Table 3:

Founding shareholders of the Banca Brăilei/Banque de Braila (1873)

Nr.	Signatory	Business firm	Company headquarters	Number of shares
1	Ροδοκανάκης Μ.Σ.	Σεκιάρη, Ροδοκανάκη και Σ-α	Braila	1.200
2	Tapponnier A.	Société Financière de Roumanie	Bucharest	1.200
3	Allatini Salomon		Marseilles	1.200
4	Ράλλης Α.Α.		London	1.200
5	Σκυλίτσης Θεόδωρος Ε.	Αργέντη, Σκυλίτση και Σ-α	London	500
6	Poumay Jacques		Bucharest	500
7	Manoach Hilel frères		Bucharest	400
8	Πασπάτης Νικόλαος Γ.		Liverpool	375
9	Ευγενίδης-Barker	Société Ottomane de Change et des Valeurs	Constantinople	250
10	S. Halfon & Jils		Bucharest	250
11	Ν. Γερμάνη και υιών		Bucharest	250
12	Elias A.H. frères		Bucharest	250
13	Νεγρεπόντης, Τ.Ι.		Bucharest	250
14	Ioannide Stefan		Bucharest	250
15	Ζερλέντης Αχιλλεύς Λ.	Λ. Ζερλέντη Υϊοί	Bucharest	250
16	Γαλάτης Λ.Σ.	Γαλάτη και Σ-α	Liverpool	250
17	Σαλβάγος Κ.Μ.	Γ.Π. Ψύχας και Σ-α	Liverpool	150
18	Ράλλης Α.Ε.	Α. καὶ Μ. Ράλλη	Liverpool	150
19	Cohen Marco		Braila	150
20	Εμπειρίκος, Λεωνίδας Κ.		Braila	150
21	Ράλλης, Κ.Μ.	Ράλλης και Ψύχα	Liverpool	125
22	Ψύχας Γεώργιος		Liverpool	100
23	Manoach I.I.		Bucharest	100
24	Ροδοκανάκη Agnese & Σ-α		Braila	100
25	Νικολαΐδης Κωνσταντίνος		Braila	100
26	Budesco Georges		Braila	100
27	Ροΐδης Νικόλαος Δ.		Galatz	100
				10.000

Source: Καταστατικόν της Τραπέζης Βραΐλας [Statutes of the Banque de Braila], Braila: Typografeion P.M. Pestemalgioglu, p. 2.

Note: The orthography of the names has been retained.

Table 4:

Shareholders of the Creditul Belgo-Român (1899)

Nr.	Name	Capital (lei)
1	Bach Angelo	150.000
2	Mendl Victor B.	100.000
3	Kirschen Moritz	75.000
4	Zamfirescu Z.C.	50.000
5	Youghaperian Byzant	20.000
6	Sassu I.G.	8.000

Note: The rest of the founding shareholders were mainly entrepreneurs from Belgium (Frederich van den Abeele, Gustav Snocck.

Source: Mocanu, Emil Octavian, Portul Brăila de la regimul de porto-franco la primul război mondial (1836-1914), Brăila: Muzeul Brăilei-Editura Istros, 2012, p. 422.

Table 5:

Founding shareholders of the Banca Portului (1911)

Nr.	Name	Profession
1	Calantzis A.	Grain merchant
2	Cicei Grig. N.	Grain merchant
3	Eremie Ion	Grain merchant
4	Pincas Iosef	Grain merchant
5	Sachs Richard	Grain merchant
6	Salmanowitz I.	Grain merchant
7	Draculis P.	Ship-owner
8	Embiricos A.	Ship-owner
9	Lobl Iosef	Ship-owner
10	Mendl Alfred B.	Ship-owner

Source: Mocanu, Emil Octavian, Portul Brăila de la regimul de porto-franco la primul război mondial (1836-1914), Brăila: Muzeul Brăilei-Editura Istros, 2012, pp. 422-423.

Table 6:

Main shareholders of the Banca Danubiană (1914)

Nr.	Name	Capital (lei)
1	Filotti Nestor	80.000
2	Sassu I.G.	80.000
3	Gheorghiu Ion	50.000

Source: Mocanu, Emil Octavian, Portul Brăila de la regimul de porto-franco la primul război mondial (1836-1914), Brăila: Muzeul Brăilei-Editura Istros, 2012, pp. 423.

[1]Approved by the government on March 30^th, 1846.

[2]This bank was probably branch of a Greek bank from Constantinople.

[3]During the 1880s the bank (“Brothers Lazaris”) was under the ownership and administration of the brothers Ilias and Petros G. Lazaris, initially with the cooperation of the merchant and industrialist Ioannis Millas. In 1890 (1 October) it was liquidated, and Ilias G. Lazaris founded a bureau de change (casa de schimb), while in 1901 the Bank was re-established.

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