Scânteia 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 ...

Western Moldavia Western Moldavia (, ''Moldova de Apus'', or , also known as Moldavia, is the core historic and geographical part of the former Principality of Moldavia situated in eastern and north-eastern Romania. Until its union with Wallachia in 1878, the P ...

Romania Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central Europe, Central, Eastern Europe, Eastern and Southeast Europe. It borders Ukraine to the north and east, Hungary to the west, Serbia to the southwest, Bulgaria to the south, Moldova to ...

. It is composed of seven villages: Bodești, Boroșești, Ciocârlești, Lunca Rateș, Rediu, Scânteia, and Tufeștii de Sus.

Natives

Florin Lambagiu Florin Lambagiu (born 8 April 1996) is a Romanian professional kickboxer, former sambist and mixed martial artist. He currently competes in the super middleweight division of the Dynamite Fighting Show (DFS), where he is the current D ...

(born 1996), kickboxer *

Neculai Alexandru Ursu Neculai Alexandru Ursu (August 3, 1926 – May 14, 2016) was a Romanian linguist, philologist, and literary historian. He graduated from Alexandru Ioan Cuza University and earned his doctorate in philology in 1967 for his work (''Formation of t ...

(1926–2016), linguist, philologist, and literary historian

Road accident

In 2009, Romania's deadliest road accident for fifteen years, a bus and train collision, killed at least 13 people in Scânteia.

References

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