Miroslava is a commune in

Iași County Iași County () is a county (județ) of Romania, in Western Moldavia, with the administrative seat at Iași. It is the most populous county in Romania, after the Municipality of Bucharest (which has the same administrative level as that of a cou ...

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, part of the

Iași metropolitan area The Iași metropolitan area is a metropolitan association in Iași County, Romania. It consists of the municipality of Iași and 19 nearby communes. Geography With an area of , the Iași metropolitan area occupies 21.2% of Iași County's to ...

. It is composed of thirteen villages: Balciu, Brătuleni, Ciurbești, Cornești, Dancaș, Găureni, Horpaz, Miroslava, Proselnici, Uricani, Valea Adâncă, Valea Ursului, and Vorovești. The commune is situated in the Jijia Plain, at an altitude of , on the banks of the river Valea Locii. It is located in the central part of the county, west of the county seat,

Iași Iași ( , , ; also known by other #Etymology and names, alternative names), also referred to mostly historically as Jassy ( , ), is the Cities in Romania, third largest city in Romania and the seat of Iași County. Located in the historical ...

, on

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DJ248A.

Uricani transmitter

At Uricani, there is a mediumwave transmitter, which transmits on 1053 kHz with a power of 1000 kW. It is one of the most powerful transmitters in Romania and uses two guyed masts insulated against ground with a height of 165 metres as antenna.

Sport

The

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club CS Știința Miroslava is based in the commune. Its home ground is the Comunal Stadium in Uricani.

Natives

Dimitrie Anghel Dimitrie Anghel (; July 16, 1872 – November 13, 1914) was a Romanian poet. Anghel was of Aromanian descent from his father. His first poem was published in '' Contemporanul'' (1890). His debut editorial ''Traduceri din Paul Verlaine'' was publ ...

(1872–1914), poet

References

Communes in Iași County Localities in Western Moldavia {{Iaşi-geo-stub