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Strășeni
Strășeni (, russian: Страшены, Стрэшень, translit=Strasheny, Streshen, latter Russian name used in Moldovan Russian-language media) is a city and municipality of about 20,000 inhabitants in central Moldova, the administrative center of Strășeni District. The city administers one village, Făgureni. There are several legends about its name. One tells that the name of the region is derived from ''strașnic'', a Romanian adjective that can mean "scary", "terrible", and the story goes that in former times this region was covered by a fearsome forest. Nowadays, Strășeni is famous for its wine. The ''Strășeni vineyard'', west of Chișinău, is renowned for its sparkling white wines. A little farther north is the Romănești winery, one of the largest locally and the one-time leading producer of wines in the USSR. One of its more famous products is a Bordeaux-type red. Media * Vocea Basarabiei 102.3 Points of interest * Strășeni TV Mast, a 355-metre (116 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Strășeni District
Strășeni () is an administrative district () in the central part of Moldova. Its administrative center and leading city is Strășeni. As of 1 January 2011, its population was 91,100. The other principal town is Bucovăț, to the north of the Moldovan capital. Otherwise the district is divided between rural communities. History The present territory of the district is inhabited since the Stone Age, 30–20.000 BC. Localities with the oldest historical attestation are Căpriana, Dolna, Lozova and Vorniceni, they are first attested in 1420. Căpriana monastery in 1429 received the status of the monastery. The present territory of the district Strășeni, was part of the medieval lands Lăpușna and Orhei boundary of which is on the Bîc River. In 1545 is remembered by scribes, Strășeni district center. In the 16th-18th centuries, the district develop both economic (trade, agriculture, forestry) and cultural (built monasteries and church (building), churches), a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Municipalities Of Moldova
There are 66 cities and towns in Moldova. Alphabetical list A * Anenii Noi B *Basarabeasca *Bălți * Biruința * Briceni * Bucovăț C * Cahul *Camenca * Cantemir * Căinari *Călărași *Căușeni *Ceadîr-Lunga * Chișinău *Cimișlia * Codru *Comrat * Cornești *Costești * Crasnoe * Cricova * Criuleni * Cupcini D * Dnestrovsc *Dondușeni *Drochia *Dubăsari * Durlești E *Edineț F * Fălești * Florești * Frunză G * Ghindești *Glodeni *Grigoriopol H *Hîncești I *Ialoveni *Iargara L * Leova *Lipcani M * Maiac *Mărculești N *Nisporeni O * Ocnița *Orhei *Otaci R *Rezina *Rîbnița *Rîșcani S *Sîngera *Sîngerei *Slobozia *Soroca * Strășeni Ș *Șoldănești * Ștefan Vodă T *Taraclia *Telenești * Tighina (Bender) *Tiraspol * Tiraspolul Nou * Tvardița U *Ungheni V * Vadul lui Vodă * Vatra *Vulcănești By status There are 13 localities with municipiu status: Bălți, Cahul, Ceadîr-Lunga, Chișinău, Comrat, Edineț, Hîncești, Orhe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moldova
Moldova ( , ; ), officially the Republic of Moldova ( ro, Republica Moldova), is a Landlocked country, landlocked country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by Romania to the west and Ukraine to the north, east, and south. The List of states with limited recognition, unrecognised state of Transnistria lies across the Dniester river on the country's eastern border with Ukraine. Moldova's Capital city, capital and largest city is Chișinău. Most of Moldovan territory was a part of the Principality of Moldavia from the 14th century until 1812, when it was Treaty of Bucharest (1812), ceded to the Russian Empire by the Ottoman Empire (to which Moldavia was a Vassal state of the Ottoman Empire, vassal state) and became known as Bessarabia. In 1856, southern Bessarabia was returned to Moldavia, which three years later united with Wallachia to form United Principalities, Romania, but Russian rule was restored over the whole of the region in 1878. During the 1917 Russian Revolution, B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Romănești (winery)
Romănești () is one of Moldova's largest Moldovan wine producers from the north of Strășeni, part of the Codru Wine Region of Moldova. This winery is the former wine-making Imperial colony of Romanov dynasty. The winery was once the leading wine producer of the former USSR. One of Romanesti's more famous products is a Bordeaux-type red wine, which was popular with the old Russian tsar Tsar ( or ), also spelled ''czar'', ''tzar'', or ''csar'', is a title used by East and South Slavic monarchs. The term is derived from the Latin word ''caesar'', which was intended to mean "emperor" in the European medieval sense of the ter ...s. See also Moldovan wine producers External links www.romanesti.moldagro.md - the official site Wineries of Moldova Moldovan brands Wineries of the Soviet Union {{winery-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Onești
Onești (; hu, Ónfalva) is a municipiu, city in Bacău County, Romania, with a population of 39,172 inhabitants. It is situated in the historical region of Western Moldavia, Moldavia. Administratively, the villages of Slobozia and Borzești form part of Onești. History The locality was documentary attested as a village on December 14, 1458. In 1952, the Communist Romania, communist authorities decided to build a large petrochemical industrial platform (Borzești Petrochemical Plant) and a new related city in the area of Onești and Borzești villages. Borzești, according to legend, was the birthplace of Stephen III of Moldavia. It is the site of the Borzești Church, which was built on his orders in 1493–1494. At the death of the Communist leader Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej in March 1965, Onești was List of places in Romania whose names were changed, renamed ''Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej'', but the name was changed back in 1990. Above the borough Malu, on the right-hand side of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chișinău
Chișinău ( , , ), also known as Kishinev (russian: Кишинёв, r=Kishinjóv ), is the Capital city, capital and largest city of the Republic of Moldova. The city is Moldova's main industrial and commercial center, and is located in the middle of the country, on the river Bîc River, Bâc, a tributary of the Dniester. According to the results of the 2014 Moldovan census, 2014 census, the city proper had a population of 532,513, while the population of the Municipality of Chișinău (which includes the city itself and other nearby communities) was 700,000. Chișinău is the most economically prosperous locality in Moldova and its largest transportation hub. Nearly a third of Moldova's population lives in the metro area. Etymology The origin of the city's name is unclear. A theory suggests that the name may come from the archaism, archaic Romanian word ''chișla'' (meaning "spring", "source of water") and ''nouă'' ("new"), because it was built around a small spring, at the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cities And Towns In Moldova
A city is a human settlement of notable size.Goodall, B. (1987) ''The Penguin Dictionary of Human Geography''. London: Penguin.Kuper, A. and Kuper, J., eds (1996) ''The Social Science Encyclopedia''. 2nd edition. London: Routledge. It can be defined as a permanent and densely settled place with administratively defined boundaries whose members work primarily on non-agricultural tasks. Cities generally have extensive systems for housing, transportation, sanitation, utilities, land use, production of goods, and communication. Their density facilitates interaction between people, government organisations and businesses, sometimes benefiting different parties in the process, such as improving efficiency of goods and service distribution. Historically, city-dwellers have been a small proportion of humanity overall, but following two centuries of unprecedented and rapid urbanization, more than half of the world population now lives in cities, which has had profound consequences for g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Romania
Romania ( ; ro, România ) is a country located at the crossroads of Central Europe, Central, Eastern Europe, Eastern, and Southeast Europe, Southeastern Europe. It borders Bulgaria to the south, Ukraine to the north, Hungary to the west, Serbia to the southwest, Moldova to the east, and the Black Sea to the southeast. It has a predominantly Temperate climate, temperate-continental climate, and an area of , with a population of around 19 million. Romania is the List of European countries by area, twelfth-largest country in Europe and the List of European Union member states by population, sixth-most populous member state of the European Union. Its capital and largest city is Bucharest, followed by Iași, Cluj-Napoca, Timișoara, Constanța, Craiova, Brașov, and Galați. The Danube, Europe's second-longest river, rises in Germany's Black Forest and flows in a southeasterly direction for , before emptying into Romania's Danube Delta. The Carpathian Mountains, which cross Roma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Strășeni TV Mast
Străşeni TV Mast is one of the tallest architectural structures in Europe and the tallest in Moldova. It was built in 1984–85, and is a 355-metre (1165') tall guyed mast (lattice steel structure with square cross section) situated near Străşeni in Moldova used for FM radio and TV transmission. Transmitted programmes TV Radio External links * http://skyscraperpage.com/diagrams/?b70728 * http://www.frocus.net/main.php?lng=en&rzd=E-TV&pag=area&g=16#emiter_table Towers in Moldova Communications in Moldova Radio masts and towers in Europe Transmitter sites in Moldova Towers completed in 1985 1985 establishments in the Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic {{Europe-mast-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vocea Basarabiei
Vocea Basarabiei ( en, Voice of Bessarabia) is a Romanian language radio station in Moldova. History Vocea Basarabiei was launched on 18 June 2000 in Nisporeni. The Audiovisual Coordinating Council refused in 2002 and 2003 to register Vocea Basarabiei. On 15 January 2005 the station began to broadcast from Chişinău. The radio station is broadcasting in Chişinău on 71.57; in Nisporeni on 105.7; in Glodeni on 100.3; in Taraclia on 101.9; in Soroca on 67.69 and 103.1; in Drochia and Pelinia on 101.0; in Ştefan Vodă on 103.8; in Căuşeni on 91.9; Vulcăneşti on 106.7; Rezina on 101.9; Străşeni on 102.3; Glodeni on 101.3; Satelit - Eutelsat: 11 111.1280 MH Notable people * Valeriu Saharneanu * Petru Bogatu * Dan Dungaciu * Valeriu Matei * Veaceslav Țâbuleac * Nicolae Negru * Aurelian Silvestru * Petru Hadârcă * Victor Rusu Victor Rusu (born 1953) is a politician, journalist, and activist from Moldova. He served as Mayor of Nisporeni and a leader of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
USSR
The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen national republics; in practice, both its government and its economy were highly centralized until its final years. It was a one-party state governed by the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, with the city of Moscow serving as its capital as well as that of its largest and most populous republic: the Russian SFSR. Other major cities included Leningrad (Russian SFSR), Kiev ( Ukrainian SSR), Minsk ( Byelorussian SSR), Tashkent (Uzbek SSR), Alma-Ata (Kazakh SSR), and Novosibirsk (Russian SFSR). It was the largest country in the world, covering over and spanning eleven time zones. The country's roots lay in the October Revolution of 1917, when the Bolsheviks, under the leadership of Vladimir Lenin, overthrew the Russian Provisional Gove ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
