Ibănești is a commune located in

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, with a population of approximately 1,500. It is composed of three villages: Ibănești, Mânzați and Puțu Olarului.

History

Among the villages that make up the commune, Mânzați is the oldest. Located seven miles from Ibănești, it was named after

cneaz ''Knez'' or ''Kenez'' (/ or ; ; , sr-Cyrl, кнез) was one of the titles given to the leader of the Vlach communities in the Kingdom of Hungary and western Balkans during the Middle Ages. Terminology In the medieval Kingdom of Hungary, offici ...

Toader Manzat, mentioned in chronicles of

Stephen III the Great Stephen III, better known as Stephen the Great (; ; died 2 July 1504), was Voivode (or Prince) of Moldavia from 1457 to 1504. He was the son of and co-ruler with Bogdan II, who was murdered in 1451 in a conspiracy organized by his brother an ...

. It was first mentioned in a document issued April 24, 1434. Currently, the act is kept in the Central State Archive of Warsaw, in a section on Moldova. Ibănești Commune was dissolved in 1968. At the time, it included Ghicani village, now part of

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, to which Ibănești Commune was then absorbed. It was re-established in December 2003.

Sites

Mânzați village features the ruins of a church built around 1761, restored in 1910 and demolished after 1940. In 1889, on land near Mânzați, researcher Grigore Ștefănescu discovered the fossilized skeleton of a

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from the species ''

Deinotherium ''Deinotherium'' (from Ancient Greek , ''()'', meaning "terrible", and ''()'', meaning "beast"), is an extinct genus of large, elephant-like proboscideans that lived from the middle-Miocene until the end of the Early Pleistocene. Although its ap ...

gigantissimum''. The fossil, belonging to a juvenile, is 4.5 m high and 3.5 m long. It is exhibited at

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, mounted in 1906 by Belgian restorer L. F. de Pauw. This copy is now one of the most important displays at the museum. In 2005, the land where it was discovered was declared a paleontological subject of national interest.

Residents

Constantin Chiriță Constantin Chiriță (March 12, 1925 – November 14, 1991) was a Romanian writer. He was born in 1925 in Ibănești, Vaslui, Ibănești, Vaslui County, Romania. He attended the Gheorghe Roșca Codreanu National College, Gheorghe Roșca Codreanu H ...

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, born March 12, 1925, died November 14, 1991

References

External links

Discover Deinotherium Mânzați 1

Ibănești
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