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Iași (UK: / ˈ j æ ʃ j / YASH-(y), [6] US: / ˈ j ɑː ʃ (i)/ YAHSH(-ee), [7] [8] Romanian: ⓘ; also known by other alternative names), also referred to mostly historically as Jassy [9] [10] (UK: / ˈ j æ s i / YASS-ee, [11] US: / ˈ j ɑː s i / YAH-see [8] [12]), is the third largest city in Romania and the seat of Iași County.
Established on 19 March 1898, CTP Iași operates an extensive network using metre gauge trams (electric trams began operating in 1900) and buses. Trolleybuses were used on a number of routes starting in 1985, but all trolleybus routes (within a system length of 31.3 km (19.4 mi), as of 2003) were converted to bus operation by 2006.
Iași is served by Iași International Airport.. Major roads in Iași are national roads DN24 and DN28, which are both part of European routes E58 and E583. CTP Iași offers transport services for the Iași Metropolitan Public Transport Association (Asociația Metropolitană de Transport Public Iași; AMTPI).
As of 2013, Iași railway station serves about 110 trains in a typical day, including domestic trains to and from a majority of Romanian cities. Additionally, international trains run to Chișinău and Ungheni, in the Republic of Moldova.
Iași International Airport (IATA: IAS, ICAO: LRIA) is an international airport located in Iași, Romania, 8 km (5 mi) east of the city centre.One of the oldest accredited airports in Romania and the most important in the historical region of Moldavia, Iași Airport is the third-busiest airport in Romania in terms of passenger traffic.
The Metropolitan Cathedral, Iași (Romanian: Catedrala Mitropolitană din Iași), located at 16 Ștefan cel Mare și Sfânt Boulevard, Iași, Romania, is the seat of the Romanian Orthodox Archbishop of Iași and Metropolitan of Moldavia and Bukovina, and the largest historic Orthodox church in Romania. [1]
The Rosary Section. The garden spans over 80 hectares of land [3] and is divided into twelve areas.. The Systematic Section is meant for students and is on a 4.5-hectare (11-acre) area, with 700 herbaceous and lignaceous taxa that are cultivated and distributed according to their natural similarities in divisions, orders and families.
The village of Popricani was featured in the 1953 memoir Mayn tatns khretshme ("My Father's Tavern") by Yiddish writer Yitskhok Horowitz. [8] Horowitz recounts his childhood in the family tavern, growing up in the sole Jewish family in the village of Popricani, with episodic tales of wolves, Shabbat, and the 1907 Romanian Peasants' Revolt. [9]