Suraia is a commune located in

Vrancea County Vrancea () is a county (județ) in Romania, with its seat at Focșani. It is mostly in the historical region of Moldavia but the southern part, below the Milcov (Siret), Milcov River, is in Muntenia. Demographics At the 2021 Romanian census, 2 ...

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 ...

. It is composed of a single village, Suraia. It included the village of Biliești until 2004, when this was split off to form a separate commune. The commune is located in the eastern part of the county, on the right bank of the

Siret Siret (; ; ; ; ) is a town, municipality and former Latin bishopric in Suceava County, northeastern Romania. It is situated in the historical region of Bukovina. Siret is the 11th largest urban settlement in the county, with a population of 6,708 ...

, a river that forms the border with

Galați County Galați () is a county (județ) of Romania, in Moldavia region, with the capital city at Galați, between latitude, 45°25'N and latitude, 46°10'N latitude, longitude, 27°20'E and longitude, 28°10'E longitude. It borders the counties of Vaslu ...

. Suraia is crossed by county road DJ204D, which connects it to the south to Vulturu (where it ends in DN23) and to the northwest to Biliești, Vânători, and

Focșani Focșani (; ) is the capital city of Vrancea County in Romania on the banks the river Milcov, in the historical region of Moldavia. , it has a population of 66,719. Geography Focșani lies at the foot of the Curvature Carpathians, at a point of ...

(where it ends in DN2). The

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–

Tecuci Tecuci () is a city in Galați County, Romania, in the historical region of Western Moldavia. It is situated among wooded hills, on the right bank of the Bârlad River, and at the junction of railways from Galați, Bârlad, and Mărășești. ...

railway also passes through the commune, which is served by the Suraia stop.

History

At the end of the 19th century, the commune was part of

Putna County Putna County was a county ( Romanian: ''județ'') in the Kingdom of Romania, in southern Moldavia. The county seat was Focșani. The county was located in the central-eastern part of Greater Romania, in the south of Moldavia. Today, most of the t ...

and was formed by the villages of Butuceni, Dimaciu, Dumbrăvița, and Suraia, with 3,041 inhabitants. In 1950, the commune was assigned to the Focșani

raion A raion (also spelt rayon) is a type of administrative unit of several post-Soviet states. The term is used for both a type of subnational entity and a division of a city. The word is from the French (meaning 'honeycomb, department'), and is c ...

of , then (after 1952) of

Bârlad Region Regiunea Bârlad (Bârlad Region) was one of the newly established (in 1950) administrative Regions of the People's Republic of Romania, divisions of the Socialist Republic of Romania, People's Republic of Romania, copied after the Soviet Union, S ...

and (after 1956) of . In 1968, it was transferred to Vrancea County. In December 1957–January 1958, during the

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, the peasants from Suraia and nearby Vadu-Roșca and

Răstoaca Răstoaca is a commune located in Vrancea County, Romania. It is composed of a single village, Răstoaca, and was part of Milcovul commune from 1968 until 2004, when it was split off. The commune is located in the southern part of the county, ...

resisted the collectivization of agriculture. Nine peasants from the area were shot dead, and 17 were wounded; 73 were tried and sentenced to long prison terms.

References

Communes in Vrancea County Localities in Western Moldavia {{Vrancea-geo-stub