Vorona (Botoșani)

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Vorona
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Vorona (Botoșani) (Romania)
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Basic data
State : RomaniaRomania Romania
Historical region : West Moldova
Circle : Botoșani
Coordinates : 47 ° 35 '  N , 26 ° 38'  E Coordinates: 47 ° 34 '35 "  N , 26 ° 37' 49"  E
Time zone : EET ( UTC +2)
Height : 270  m
Area : 82.84  km²
Residents : 7,492 (October 20, 2011)
Population density : 90 inhabitants per km²
Postal code : 717475
Telephone code : (+40) 02 31
License plate : BT
Structure and administration (as of 2016)
Structure : Vorona, Icuşeni , Joldeşti , Poiana , Vorona Mare , Vorona-Teodoru
Mayor : Aurel Ștefan ( PSD )
Postal address : Loc. Vorona
jud. Botoșani, RO-717475
Website :
Others
City Festival : September 8th, forest festival

Vorona is a municipality in Botoșani County in Romania . It consists of the six villages Icuşeni, Joldeşti, Poiana, Vorona, Vorona Mare and Vorona-Teodoru.

Geographical location

Location of Vorona in Botoșani County

The municipality of Vorona is located in the historical region of West Moldova in northeast Romania. In the Suceava plateau ( Podișul Sucevei ) on the Vorona - a left tributary of the Sereth - in the southwest of the Botoșani district and the district roads ( drum județean ) DJ 208H as feeder to European route 58 and the DJ 208C - connects the E 583 in a northerly direction Botoşani - the place is located 22 kilometers south of the district capital Botoşani ( Botoschan ) and around 40 km southeast of the airport "Stefan Cel Mare" near Suceava .

The municipality of Vorona itself has no rail connection; the closest is in the small town of Liteni ( Kr. Suceava ) on the Suceava – Roman railway line . There are bus connections to the district capital several times a day.

history

Entrance of the Vorona monastery

Vorona was first mentioned in a document in 1403 in a donation from Prince Alexandru cel Bun ( Alexander the Good ). Settlement of the region is, however, going back much more. According to archaeological finds on the Dealul Holban mountain of the incorporated village of Vorona Mare , known by the locals , this dates back to the Neolithic Age .

The place became known through the (according to various sources) in the 17th or late 18th early 19th century founded Vorona monastery ( Mănăstirea Vorona ), an Orthodox monastery two kilometers from the outskirts.

The name of the village comes from the Slavic language , Vorona means "crow" and the legend of the monastery history tells that this place was once visited by crowds of crows.

population

The 2002 census recorded 7,998 Romanians and one Magyar in the municipality . In the census of October 20, 2011, 7,492 people were counted in 2895 households in the municipality of Vorona.

The main occupations of the population are agriculture and wood processing.

Worth seeing

  • The Naşterea Maicii Domnului (Virgin Mary's Birth) monastery in Vorona, one of the two churches - Adormirea Maicii Domnului - and the monastery accommodation is a listed building.
    • The church Adormirea Maicii Domnului (Assumption), built 1793-1803, has a polygonal shaped round roof with three octagonal onion domes. In the church there are two well-preserved large paintings on canvas "Passion" and "Last Judgment".
    • The Naşterea Maicii Domnului (Virgin Birth) church, a Moldovan church- style construction with semicircular apses , with three Russian-style towers with the typical onion shape . In the church there are some valuable nineteenth-century icons and fragments of relics of St. Nicholas and the Holy Martyr of "Saint Sava" .
    • Small house in which the fifth patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church Teoctist Arăpaşu spent the novitiate period from 1929 to 1931. In 2005 a marble plaque with the following inscription was placed on the wall of the house: The brother of the monastery, Teoctist, Patriarch of Romania, lived in this monastery cell between 1929 and 1931, 2005
  • The monastery Sihastria Voronei , about four kilometers south of Vorona.

literature

  • Gh. Ciobotaru - "Istoria m-rii Vorona" , teză de licență, Institutul Teologic Bucureşti, 1948
  • Mitropolia Moldovei si Sucevei - "Monuments istorice bisericeşti din Mitropolia Moldovei si Sucevei" (Ed. Mitropoliei Moldovei si Sucevei, Iași, 1974), pages 361-362

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b 2011 census in Romania ( MS Excel ; 1.3 MB)
  2. ↑ Vorona on the district website, accessed on November 1, 2012 (Romanian)
  3. ^ Report of archaeological research in Vorona Mare at cimec.ro accessed on November 1, 2012
  4. ↑ Mănăstirea Vorona at biserici.org accessed on November 1, 2012 (Romanian)
  5. ↑ a b List of historical monuments of the Romanian Ministry of Culture, updated 2010 (PDF; 7.10 MB)
  6. ↑ Mileanca in the Structura ethno-demográfica a României
  7. ↑ Mănăstirea VORONA at manastiriortodoxe.ro, accessed on November 2, 2012
  8. ↑ The Sihăstria Voronei Monastery at crestinortodox.ro accessed on November 2, 2012