Fălești (
Moldovan Cyrillic
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Fălești District
Fălești () is a district ( ro, raion) in the north of Moldova, with the administrative center at Fălești.
As of January 1, 2011, its population was 92,600.
It borders Romania, in Western Moldova.
History
District towns, with the earliest his ...
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Moldova
Moldova ( , ; ), officially the Republic of Moldova ( ro, Republica Moldova), is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by Romania to the west and Ukraine to the north, east, and south. The unrecognised state of Transnistr ...
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In January 2011, the population of Fălești was estimated to be 17,800.
On 7 August 2012, Fălești recorded a temperature of , which is the highest temperature to have ever been recorded in Moldova.
History
The town had an important Jewish community before World War II, 51% of the total population. The Jews were murdered during the
Holocaust
The Holocaust, also known as the Shoah, was the genocide of European Jews during World War II. Between 1941 and 1945, Nazi Germany and its collaborators systematically murdered some six million Jews across German-occupied Europe; ...
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Notable people
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Ion Păscăluță
Gallery
File:Stamp of Moldova md533.jpg
Further reading
Faleshty/Falesti(pp. 358–361) at
Miriam Weiner's Routes to Roots Foundation
References
External links
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Cities and towns in Moldova
Beletsky Uyezd
Bălți County (Romania)
Holocaust locations in Moldova
Fălești District