Dorohoi () is a

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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 As of 1st of December 20 ...

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, on the right bank of the river Jijia, which broadens into a lake on the north. The city administers three villages: Dealu Mare, Loturi Enescu, and Progresul.

History

Dorohoi used to be a market for the timber and farm produce of the north

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n highlands; merchants from the neighboring states flocked to its great fair, held on the June 12. The settlement is first mentioned in documents from 1408, where a treaty was signed between Moldavian voievode,

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, and the King of Poland and Hungary. Dorohoi was bombed by the Russians during

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. Dorohoi used to be the capital of Dorohoi County, but was downgraded to a municipality when the

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occupied Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina in late June 1940. On July 1, 1940, units of the Romanian Army attacked local Jews in a

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. These military actions against the Jews were not endorsed by the Romanian Government. When the conspiracy against the Jews was discovered by the military command, troops were sent to end the abuse.

Geography

2010 Romanian floods

The northeastern town of Dorohoi witnessed deaths during the night of June 28–29, 2010 as floods rose to just over in some places. Several roads into Dorohoi remained either washed away or under water.Romania floods kill 21 – Hindustan Times
/ref> The heavy rain that had been falling for close to a week had forecasters warning that it would continue in northeast Romania. The unusually heavy rain killed 6 people, most in the town of Dorohoi on the 29th.

Demographics

At the 2021 census, Dorohoi had a population of 22,893. At the census from 2011, the city had a population of 22,600, of which 98.13% were ethnic

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, 1.54% ethnic Romani, 0.07% ethnic

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, and 0.02% ethnic

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Jews of Dorohoi

first settled in Dorohoi in the 17th century. It was set up as a Jewish Guild under

. Jews suffered here during

: *There were 600 Jewish families in Dorohoi in 1803. *3,031 people in 1859 (roughly half of the population). *6,804 in 1899 (more than half of the population). *5,800 in the 1930s. For the entire Dorohoi County, most of which remained in Romania, though the Hertsa area became a part of the Soviet Union, 6,425 Jews survived the deportations to Transnistria in 1941, while 5,131 died.See Jean Ancel, ''The History of the Holocaust in Romania'' (Lincoln, University of Nebraska Press and Jerusalem, Yad Vashem, 2011) p. 550, 558, on the number of survivors as of November 15, 1943, and "Situatie Numerica de evreii ucisi sub regimul de dictatura din Romania de la data de 6 decembrie 1940, pana la 23 august 1944, precum si acelor deportati in acelasi interval de timp si nereintorsi la domiciliu", in "Nota Ministerului Afacerilor Interne, Directia Generala a Politiei, Directia Politiei de Siguranta, Sectia Nationalitati Nr. 780-S din 6 Main 1946 Catre M.A.S.", in Ion Calafeteanu, Nicolae Dinu and Teodor Gheorghe, ''Emigrarea Populatiei Evreiesti din Romania in 1940-1944, Culegere de Documente din Arhiva Ministerului Afaceror Externe al Romaniei'' (Bucuresti, Silex - Casa de Editura, Presa si IMpresariat S.R.L., Bucuresti, 1993), p. 246. The Jewish population actually increased after the

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as a result of refugees settling there. In 1947, there were 7,600 Jews living in Dorohoi. Following the establishment of

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, the Jewish population of Dorohoi steadily decreased, due to emigration. In 1956, there were 2,753 Jews; in 1966, there were 1,013; and by 2000, there were only 49 Jews left in Dorohoi.

Natives

* Benjamin Abrams (1893–1967), American businessman * Vlad Dragoș Aicoboae (born 1993), rower * Alexandru Batcu (1892–1964), brigadier general in World War II * Ion Călugăru (1902–1956), novelist * Dumitru Chipăruș (1886–1947), sculptor * Alexandru Ciucur (born 1990), footballer *

Dan Condurache Dan Condurache (; born 26 July 1952) is a Romanian film actor. He has appeared in more than fifty films since 1976. Born in Dorohoi, he completed high school in his native city. He then went to Bucharest Bucharest ( , ; ) is the capital ...

(born 1952), film actor * Octavian Cotescu (1931–1985), film and theatre actor * Sebastian Cozmâncă (born 1992), kickboxer * Maurice Hartt (1895–1950), Canadian politician * Theodor V. Ionescu (1899–1988), physicist * Alexandre Istrati (1915–1991), painter * Gheorghe Liliac (born 1959), footballer * Camelia Lupașcu (born 1986), rower * Alexandru Mavrodi (1881–1934), journalist * Gheorghe Nichita (born 1956), politician * Marcel Olinescu (1896–1992), engraver * Dan Pița (born 1938), film director and screenwriter * Nicolae Samsonovici (1877–1950), general and Defense Minister * (born 1981), actor and film director * Marius Șuleap (born 1979), footballer *

Păstorel Teodoreanu Păstorel Teodoreanu, or just Păstorel (born Alexandru Osvald (Al. O.) Teodoreanu; July 30, 1894 – March 17, 1964), was a Romanian humorist, poet and gastronome, the brother of novelist Ionel Teodoreanu and brother in law of writer Ștefana Ve ...

(1894–1964), humorist and poet

Attractions

A little to the Eastern outer limits of the city, on the way to Broscăuți, tourists may find Saint Nicholas Church, an edifice built by Ștefan cel Mare in 1495. Exorcisms have been officiated here until the late 2000s.

References

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