Liteni

Liteni lies in the foothills of the Eastern Carpathians , at the mouth of the Suceava River in the Siret . The district capital Suceava is located about 25 km northwest.

history

The region of today's city has been populated since the Neolithic ; other archaeological finds date from the Bronze Age and the Dacian era . Liteni was first mentioned in a document in 1463 - during the reign of Ștefan cel Mare . The name of the place is said to come from Lithuanian traders. From 1869, the opening of the railway line from Chernivtsi to Roman through Liteni led to an economic boom. Liteni and its surroundings were hit by the peasant uprising in Romania in 1907 . In the Balkan Wars as well as in the First World War , 183 Litenis people died, and 215 in the Second World War . Many citizens lived in Siberian camps as prisoners of war in the Soviet Union after the war . In 2004 Liteni was declared a city. The most important branches of industry are agriculture and the extraction of gravel .

population

In 1930 about 200 of the 4500 inhabitants of today's city were Jews , the rest of the Romanians . At the 2002 census there were 9,851 people in Liteni, including 9,835 Romanians and 17 Roma . 4577 lived in the actual city, 5258 in the five incorporated villages.

traffic

The important railway line Bucharest – Suceava runs through the city . Only local trains in the direction of Suceava or Pașcani stop at Liteni and Corni stations . There are bus connections to Suceava and Fălticeni .

Attractions

Memorial house to Iorgu Vârnav Liteanu, a fighter for the unification of Romania in the 19th century

Web links

Commons : Liteni - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ 2011 census in Romania at citypopulation.de

↑ Franz Adolf Wickenhauser: Moldawa or contributions to a deed book for Moldavia and Bukovina. Book 1: The Moldovitsa Monastery Documents. Jacob & Holzhausen et al., Vienna et al. 1862, p. 212.

↑ ^a ^b Website of the city, accessed on January 25, 2009 ( Memento of the original from May 11, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2
^ Philip Gabriel Eidelberg: The Great Rumanian Peasant Revolt of 1907. Origins of a modern Jacquerie. EJ Brill, Leiden 1974, ISBN 90-04-03781-0 , pp. 191-197.
↑ 2002 census, accessed January 25, 2009

[1] 2011 census in Romania at citypopulation.de

[2] Franz Adolf Wickenhauser: Moldawa or contributions to a deed book for Moldavia and Bukovina. Book 1: The Moldovitsa Monastery Documents. Jacob & Holzhausen et al., Vienna et al. 1862, p. 212.