Lăpușna (Hîncești)
Lăpușna ( Russian Лапушна ) is a market town in Hînceşti Rajon in the Republic of Moldova . The place is located in the valley of the Lăpuşnița river, a left tributary of the Prut , about 18 km northwest of Hînceşti and 54 km southwest of Chişinău . It is surrounded by agricultural land. The former Prime Minister of Moldova, Vlad Filat was born in Lăpușna in 1969.
history
The place Lăpușna was first mentioned in a document by Alexandru cel Bun in 1429 . Due to its location on a trade route between Poland and Transylvania on the one hand and the Black Sea on the other, the place had an eventful history as a military base, administrative center and trading center. A court was established here in the 16th century. The place is considered the birthplace of Alexandru Lăpușneanu . The church is dedicated to the archangels Gabriel and Michael and contains stylistic elements from the 15th and 16th centuries. The originally wooden church was converted into a stone structure in 1814-1818 and consecrated by Metropolitan Gavriil Banulescu-Bodoni.
Archaeological excavations have shown that human settlements have existed on the site of Lăpuşna and the village of Rusca since the Bronze Age (2nd millennium BC). On the site of Lăpușna and the villages of Rusca and Anini, numerous necropolises were discovered that refer to the culture of the local Geten (4th and 3rd centuries BC). For the years 1430–1431 there is a princely document in which the Lăpuşna river and several villages on its banks are mentioned. The name Lăpușna appears in documents from the first decades of the 15th century and names several different topographical objects: the Lăpușna river (April 10, 1439), the Lăpușna market (April 25, 1454), the district ( ținut ) Lăpușna ( April 10, 1439). Lăpușna already existed as a market in the 14th century, but it is only mentioned in a document in the first half of the 15th century. In the charter of August 25, 1454, Prince Petru Aron granted the Moldovița monastery the privilege of exemption from customs duties for its three wagons with which one was traveling in the country in order to buy fish on the Danube , the Dniester or other waters that one does not have in Târgu Frumos still had to declare customs on the Polish market or in Lăpuşna. On June 29, 1456, the same prince allowed the Lipovan merchants to pay only 30 groschen for 12 scales in Lăpuşna with goods intended for the Tatar territories, and there also to pay the customs of Cetatea Albă for goods that were not Took way across that market.
population
In the 2004 census , Lăpușna had 5640 inhabitants, of which 2747 were men and 2893 women.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Lapusna-Sipoteni-Pascani-Secareni. (No longer available online.) Consiliul Raional Hincesti, formerly in the original ; accessed on October 19, 2009 (English). ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Populația pe medii, localități și sexe, în profil teritorial (Population by area, localities and sex, in territorial aspect). (XLS; 151 kB) Static Office of the Republic of Moldova, 2004, accessed on October 18, 2009 (Romanian, (English)).
Coordinates: 46 ° 53 ' N , 28 ° 25' E