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Cities and towns in Moldova Rank City/town Population Administrative unit Census 1930 Census 1959 Census 1970 Census 1979 Census 1989 Census 2004 Census 2014 ...
There are 1682 localities in Moldova, including 66 urban localities (of them 53 are cities / towns (Romanian: orașe), and 13 municipalities (Romanian: municipiu)), [1] and 1616 rural localities - villages (Romanian: sate). According to the Moldovan law on territorial administrative organisation, two or more villages can form together a commune ...
Soroca is a city and municipality [2] in Moldova, situated on the Dniester River about 160 km (99 mi) north of Chișinău. It is the administrative center of the Soroca District . Before the Holocaust , most of the population was Jewish .
Moldova, [ d ] officially the Republic of Moldova, [ e ] is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe, on the northeastern corner of the Balkans. [ 16 ] The country spans a total of 33,483 km 2 (12,928 sq mi) and has a population of approximately 2.42 million as of January 2024. [ 17 ]
Geography of Moldova. Located in Eastern Europe, Moldova is bordered on the west and southwest by Romania and on the north, south, and east by Ukraine. Most of its territory lies in Bessarabia region, between the area's two main rivers, the Nistru and the Prut. The Nistru forms a small part of Moldova's border with Ukraine in the northeast and ...
In the 17th and 18th centuries, Căușeni was the capital of the Budjak Horde. [citation needed] The 17th century Assumption of Our Lady Church is the oldest surviving building in the town. [2] It is set more than 3 feet (0.91 m) below ground level and preserves the only medieval fresco in the Republic of Moldova.
Geography. In the northeastern part of Moldova, as far as 98 km from Chișinău, the town of Rezina is situated on three successive terraces formed by the picturesque right bank of the Dniester. The lowest terrace (along the Dniester) houses the older town, the second one (on the hill slope) contains buildings constructed in the 1950-60s, while ...
The first site in Romania, the Danube Delta, was added to the list at the 15th Session of the World Heritage Committee, held in Carthage in 1990. Further sites were added in 1993 and 1999 and some of the sites were subsequently expanded. Roșia Montană Mining Cultural Landscape was listed in 2021 and was immediately placed in the list of World ...