Poduri is a

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Bacău County Bacău County () is a county ( județ) of Romania, in Western Moldavia, with its capital city at Bacău. It has one commune, Ghimeș-Făget, in Transylvania. Geography This county has a total area of . In the western part of the county ther ...

Western Moldavia Moldavia ( ro, Moldova), also called Western Moldavia or Romanian Moldavia, is the historic and geographical part of the former Principality of Moldavia situated in eastern and north-eastern Romania. Until its union with Wallachia in 1859, the Pr ...

Romania Romania ( ; ro, România ) is a country located at the crossroads of Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe. It borders Bulgaria to the south, Ukraine to the north, Hungary to the west, Serbia to the southwest, Moldova to the east, a ...

. It is composed of seven villages: Bucșești, Cernu, Cornet, Negreni, Poduri, Prohozești and Valea Șoșii. The Poduri archeological site of the late

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Cucuteni-Trypillian culture is significant due to its thirteen habitation levels that were constructed on top of each other over many years.

Geography

Poduri sits in the central-western part of the county, on the right bank of

Tazlăul Sărat The Tazlăul Sărat is a right tributary of the river Tazlău in Romania. It discharges into the Tazlău in Tescani.Moinești Moinești (; hu, Mojnest) is a city in Bacău County, Western Moldavia, Romania, with a population of 21,787 . Its name is derived from the Romanian-language word ''moină'', which means "fallow" or "light rain". Moinești once had a large Jewish ...

. It is crossed by county road DJ117, which links west of Moinești (where it ends in DN2G) and south of

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and Livezi (where it ends in DN11).

Natives

Eugen Chirnoagă Eugen Chirnoagă (24 March 1891–June 14, 1965) was a Romanian chemist. Chirnoagă was born in 1891 in Poduri, Bacău County, one of eight children of Gheorghe Chirnoagă, a teacher, and his wife, Olimpia; one of his brothers, Platon Chirnoag� ...

Platon Chirnoagă Platon Chirnoagă (October 24, 1894 – March 29, 1974) was a Romanian brigadier-general during World War II. Chirnoagă was born in 1894 in Poduri, Bacău County, one of eight children of Gheorghe Chirnoagă, a teacher, and his wife, Olimpia; ...

Petre Grigoraș Petre Grigoraș (born 15 November 1964, in Poduri, Bacău) is a Romanian football manager and former player. He is known as "Petre Grigoraș, cel mai tare din oraș" ("Petre Grigoraș, best man of the city"), as his career as a manager was very ...

References

Communes in Bacău County Localities in Western Moldavia Cucuteni–Trypillia culture {{Bacău-geo-stub