Costești is a village in
Ialoveni District, in central
Moldova
Moldova, officially the Republic of Moldova, is a Landlocked country, landlocked country in Eastern Europe, with an area of and population of 2.42 million. Moldova is bordered by Romania to the west and Ukraine to the north, east, and south. ...
, with a population of 11,128 at the
2004 census.
''Clasificatorul unităților administrativ-teritoriale al Republicii Moldova'' (CUATM)
It is the second largest rural locality in the country by population, three times larger than the homonymous city in the north of Moldova.
Notable people
* Teodor Bârcă
Teodor Bârcă (12 June 1894 – 12 May 1993) was a Bessarabian politician and professor, who on 27 March 1918 voted the union of Bessarabia with Romania. He was the vice president of Sfatul Țării, the parliament of Bessarabia at the time ...
, teacher and politician
* Constantin Bivol, agriculturalist and politician
* Victor Stepaniuc
Victor Stepaniuc (born 13 July 1958) is a Moldovan politician.
He has been a member of the Parliament of Moldova
The parliament of the Republic of Moldova () is the supreme representative body of the Republic of Moldova, the only state leg ...
, historian and politician
* Ion Sula, politician
References
Externals links
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Villages of Ialoveni District
Kishinyovsky Uyezd
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