Lețcani 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 ...

, part of the Iași metropolitan area. It is composed of four villages: Bogonos, Cogeasca, Cucuteni and Lețcani. The commune is situated on the

Moldavian Plateau The Moldavian Plateau () is a geographic area of the historical region of Moldavia, spanning nowadays the east and northeast of Romania, most of Moldova (except the south), and most of the Chernivtsi Oblast of Ukraine (where it is known as the ''P ...

, at an altitude of . It lies on the banks of the river Bahlui and its right tributary, the river Voinești; the river Săuzeni flows into the Voinești in Cogeasca. Among historians and archaeologists, Lețcani is famous as the place where one of the very few known

Gothic runic inscriptions Very few Elder Futhark Runic inscriptions, inscriptions in the Gothic language have been found in the territory historically settled by the Goths (Wielbark culture, Chernyakhov culture). Due to the early Christianization of the Goths, the Gothic al ...

was found, on a spindle whorl dated to the 4th century.

Natives

* Sava Caracaș (1890–1945), brigadier general during World War II

References

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