Podoleni is a
commune in
Neamț County,
Western Moldavia,
Romania. It is composed of two villages, Negritești and Podoleni.
Demographics
Population
The
2011 Romanian census
The 2011 Romanian census was a census held in Romania between 20 and 31 October 2011. It was performed by some 120,000 census takers in around 101,000 statistic sectors throughout the country established by the National Institute of Statistics (IN ...
puts the population of Podoleni at 4,196. This is in comparison to the 2002 census which recorded the population at 5,628. The majority of the population are ethnically
Romanian (96.5%), the remaining population's ethnicity is unknown (3.43%).
Religion
Geography
The commune lays 25.6 km away from the
Piatra Neamţ municipality, which is the capital of the Neamţ County. The commune is 4,017
hectares in area, the majority of which is dedicated to agricultural use. Only 885 hectares is designated for "town" use.
History
The village of Podoleni was founded on the bank of the
Bistrița river. The villages is first attested in 1479. The Buciuleşti monastery was erected in 1630, and has since fallen in to ruin.
References
Communes in Neamț County
Localities in Western Moldavia
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