Milcovul (called Risipiți until 1964) is a commune in

Vrancea County Vrancea () is a county (județ) in Romania, with its seat at Focșani. It is mostly in the historical region of Moldavia but the southern part, below the Milcov (Siret), Milcov River, is in Muntenia. Demographics At the 2021 Romanian census, 2 ...

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. It is located in the historical region of

Muntenia Muntenia (, also known in English as Greater Wallachia) is a historical region of Romania, part of Wallachia (also, sometimes considered Wallachia proper, as ''Muntenia'', ''Țara Românească'', and the rarely used ''Valahia'' are synonyms in Ro ...

. It is composed of two villages, Lămotești and Milcovul, and also included Gologanu and

Răstoaca Răstoaca is a commune located in Vrancea County, Romania. It is composed of a single village, Răstoaca, and was part of Milcovul commune from 1968 until 2004, when it was split off. The commune is located in the southern part of the county, ...

from 1968, until these became separate communes again in 2004. The commune is situated in the northern reaches of the

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, on the banks of the Milcov River. It is located in the southeastern part of Vrancea County, southeast of the county seat,

Focșani Focșani (; ) is the capital city of Vrancea County in Romania on the banks the river Milcov, in the historical region of Moldavia. , it has a population of 66,719. Geography Focșani lies at the foot of the Curvature Carpathians, at a point of ...

; its other neighbors are the following communes:

to the northeast, Gologanu to the south, and Slobozia Ciorăști to the southwest. Milcovul is crossed by

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, which connects Focșani to

Ciorăști Ciorăști is a commune located in Vrancea County, Romania. It is composed of seven villages: Ciorăști, Codrești, Mihălceni, Salcia Nouă, Salcia Veche, Satu Nou, and Spătăreasa. The commune is located at the southeastern extremity of the ...

. In 1227 Milcov became the seat of the

Diocese of Cumania The Roman Catholic Diocese of Cumania was a Latin-rite bishopric west of the Siret River (in present-day Romania) from 1228 to 1241. The lands incorporated into the diocese had been dominated by the nomadic Cumans since about 1100. Catholic missi ...

, a

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which served the

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and the

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in the Burzenland. The diocese was destroyed during the

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in 1241.

References

Communes in Vrancea County Localities in Muntenia {{Vrancea-geo-stub