Scânteia is a

commune A commune is an alternative term for an intentional community. Commune or comună or comune or other derivations may also refer to: Administrative-territorial entities * Commune (administrative division), a municipality or township ** Communes of ...

Iași County Iași County () is a county (județ) of Romania, in Western Moldavia, with the administrative seat at Iași. It is the most populous county in Romania, after the Municipality of Bucharest (which has the same administrative level as that of a coun ...

Western Moldavia Moldavia ( ro, Moldova), also called Western Moldavia or Romanian Moldavia, is the historic and geographical part of the former Principality of Moldavia situated in eastern and north-eastern Romania. Until its union with Wallachia in 1859, the Pr ...

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, S ...

. It is composed of seven villages: Bodești, Boroșești, Ciocârlești, Lunca Rateș, Rediu, Scânteia and Tufeștii de Sus.

Natives

Florin Lambagiu Florin Lambagiu (born 8 April 1996) is a Romanian professional kickboxer, former sambist and mixed martial artist. He currently competes in the super middleweight division of the Dynamite Fighting Show (DFS), where he is the former D ...

Neculai Alexandru Ursu Neculai Alexandru Ursu (August 3, 1926 – May 14, 2016) was a Romanian linguist, philologist, and literary historian. He graduated from Alexandru Ioan Cuza University and earned his doctorate in philology in 1967 for his work (''Formation of th ...

Road accident

In 2009, Romania's deadliest road accident for fifteen years, a bus and train collision, killed at least 13 people in Scânteia.

References

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