Botoșani County
Botoșani County () is a county (județ) of Romania, in Western Moldavia (encompassing a few villages in neighbouring Suceava County from Bukovina to the west as well), with the county seat at Botoșani.
Demographics
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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 ...
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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 three villages: Cheliș, Dracșani, and Sulița.
The commune is situated in the Jijia Plain, at an altitude of , on the banks of the river
Sitna
The Sitna is a right tributary of the river Jijia in Romania. It discharges into the Jijia in Hlipiceni.Burla. It is located in the southern part of the county, southwest of the county seat,
Botoșani
Botoșani () is the capital city of Botoșani County, in the northern part of Moldavia, Romania. Today, it is best known as the birthplace of many celebrated Romanians, including Mihai Eminescu, Nicolae Iorga and Grigore Antipa.
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Natives
* Cleopa Ilie (1912 – 1998), abbot of the Sihăstria Monastery