Liești is the third-largest commune of

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on the confluence of the

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and

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rivers, very close to

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(28 km) and

Galați Galați ( , , ; also known by other #Etymology and names, alternative names) is the capital city of Galați County in the historical region of Western Moldavia, in eastern Romania. Galați is a port town on the river Danube. and the sixth-larges ...

(52 km). It is composed of two villages, Liești and Șerbănești. The latter is the southernmost part of the commune.

Name

The name of the commune appears to be derived from ''Ilie'', which means ''Elijah'', probably a local, which seems to be the brother of Șerban, the father of Șerbănești.

History

The first mention of the village dates from 1448, when in the prince of

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, Petru II, who gives as a gift to the local nobleman Cernat Ploscarul and to his brother, Ștefu, 40 villages and fields among which appear Liești and Șerbănești.

Natives

Antonel Borșan Antonel Borșan (born 29 April 1970 in Liești, Galați County) is a Romanian sprint canoer who competed in the mid-1990s. He won an Olympic silver medal at the 1996 Summer Olympics in the C-2 1000 m event with Marcel Glăvan. Bor ...

(born 1970), sprint canoer *

Anghel Saligny Anghel Saligny (; 19 April 1854, Liești, Șerbănești, Moldavia – 17 June 1925, Bucharest, Kingdom of Romania, Romania) was a Romanian engineer, most famous for designing the Anghel Saligny Bridge, Fetești-Cernavodă railway bridge (1895) ...

(1854–1925), engineer who designed the Anghel Saligny Bridge (1895) over the Danube, the longest bridge in Europe at the time

Tourist sights

Liești has several

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churches – St. Parascheva (c. 1886), Dormition of the Virgin (1889), and St. Nicholas (built after 1990)- the seat of the Protopopiate (archpriest's district) of Nicorești. Other attractions include the

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forests near the village (especially in May) and the picturesque valleys of the rivers Siret and Bârlad.

Education

Lieşti has four schools: one which teaches until the tenth grade, and three that teach until the eighth grade. Liești also has four kindergartens and a 14,000-volume public library.

Economy

The village has a sugar factory (Lemarco Bucharest), but the majority of the population works in local agriculture or in

siderurgy An ironworks or iron works is an industrial plant where iron is smelted and where heavy iron and steel products are made. The term is both singular and plural, i.e. the singular of ''ironworks'' is ''ironworks''. Ironworks succeeded bloomeri ...

at the Siderurgical Combinate Mittal Steel from Galați. Beginning around 2000, many people from the region have gone to work in Italy or Spain, where wages are higher.

Climate

The climate of Liești is

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References

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