Ilișești () is a commune located in

Suceava County Suceava County () is a county (') of Romania. Most of its territory lies in the southern part of the Historical regions of Romania, historical region of Bukovina, while the remainder forms part of Western Moldavia proper. The county seat and the ...

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, northeastern

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. It is composed of two villages, Brașca and Ilișești. The commune was called ''Ciprian Porumbescu'' (with Ilișești as its center) and included the villages of Bălăceana and Ciprian Porumbescu until 2004, when these were split off to form separate communes.

History

During the 1780s, 12 ethnic- German families settled in Ilișești in the course of the Josephine colonization. These ethnic Germans were part of the then-emerging Bukovina German community which formed in the historical region of

during the

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period under

Austria-Hungary Austria-Hungary, also referred to as the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the Dual Monarchy or the Habsburg Monarchy, was a multi-national constitutional monarchy in Central Europe#Before World War I, Central Europe between 1867 and 1918. A military ...

Administration and local politics

Commune council

The commune's current local council has the following political composition, according to the results of the

2020 Romanian local elections Local elections were held in Romania on 27 September 2020. Initially planned for June 2020, the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic led the Government of Romania to postpone the elections to a date no later than 31 December 2020, and extending al ...

Natives

* Leontin Grozavu (born 1967), football player and manager *

Simion Florea Marian Simion Florea Marian (September 1, 1847–April 11, 1907) was an ethnic Romanian Austria-Hungary, Austro-Hungarian folklorist, ethnographer, Eastern Orthodox priest and teacher, from the Duchy of Bukovina. Born in Ilișești, a village southw ...

(1847–1907), folklorist, ethnographer, Orthodox priest, and teacher

References

File:Scoala Ilisesti.jpg, The local school in Ilișești File:Biserica Adormirea Maicii Domnului din Ilisesti1.jpg, Former Evangelical Lutheran church (now Orthodox) File:Manastirea Ilisesti4.jpg, Entrance to Ilișești monastery {{DEFAULTSORT:Ilisesti Communes in Suceava County Localities in Southern Bukovina