Recommended
More Related Content
What's hot
What's hot (20)
Similar to Vicovu de sus
Similar to Vicovu de sus (20)
Recently uploaded
Recently uploaded (20)
Vicovu de sus
- 1. Students: Băețilot Vasile Iulian Sebastian Drăgan Denisa Nicoleta Bădescu Marian
- 2. Vicovu de Sus is a city in Suceava County, Bucovina, Romania, consisting of Bivolaria and Vicovu de Sus (residence). At the 2011 census, the locality had a population of 13,308 inhabitants, being the seventh urban center of the county. It was declared a city by Law 83/2004, together with 7 other localities in Suceava County
- 3. Until it was declared a town, Vicovu de Sus was the largest commune in Suceava County. The transition to the city has become natural, although the locality also preserves most of its rural features. Vicovu de Sus is one of the high-growth localities in the past, with various commercial and economic units, such as shoe factories, in the city. From a demographic point of view, Vicovu de Sus has surpassed much older cities in the county, such as Siret and Solca.
- 4. The settlement is located in the north of Suceava County, near the border with Ukraine, on the national road and the railway connecting the city of Rădăuţi de Putna. Besides, Vicovu de Sus is located in the urban influence area of Radauti. The structure of Vicovu de Sus also includes the subordinated village Bivolaria, separated from the city by the Suceava River.
- 5. The town of Vicovu de Sus is located in the northern part of Suceava County, in Rădăuţi and is crossed by the Suceava River, which divides the town into two (Vicovu de Sus, on the left bank and the Bivolary district on the right bank of the river). In the north, the city is bordered by the state border between Romania and Ukraine, to the south of the Obcina Mare Mountains (with Măgura Mică peak, attitude 837 m), southeast of the commune of Vicovu de Jos, northeast of the commune Bilca, in the western part of the city is bounded by the village of Straja and in the south-west of the Suceava River, which draws the administrative line between the town and Putna commune.
- 6. Suceava Valley has been inhabited since ancient times. Palaeolithic tools were discovered in the area of Straja commune, and from the Neolithic age the area of Voitinel commune is surrounded by the vast space of the Stacervo-Cris culture. During the Geto-Dacian period, the northern area of Moldova was inhabited by the tribe of the costobocilor, who extended their authority in the northern area of Moldova, establishing a kingdom that included Bucovina and Maramures.
- 7. The beginnings of the medieval age demonstrate a continuity of living in the Rădăuţi area. From the 10th century, Rădăuţi, in a Byzantine archaeological context, discovered a chronologically framed coin between 998 and 1028. The links with the Hungarian kingdom are evidenced by the monies belonging to the Arpadian kings and discovered in the Cernăuţi area. During the same period, German coins from the 13th century are also revealed.
- 8. The village of Vicov was founded before the demolition of Dragoş and Bogdan I, having its hearth in the valley of the Sicova brook, from which it took its name. Later, the village was divided by the descendants of one of its masters in two parts, each side becoming a distinct village: the Vicovul de Jos and the Vicovul de Sus. Vicovul de Jos was bought by Alexander the Good and given to the Metropolitan Church of Moldova. Instead, the village of Vicovul de Sus (which included the present territory of the town of Vicovu de Sus and the village of Bilca) was in possession of the Babici family, with all its borders, as they have mastered forever. The most prominent representative of this family was Stan Babici, a member of the reign of Alexandru cel Bun and his son, Iliaş. On the territory of the village Laura was one of the most important monasteries since the beginning of the Middle Ages in Moldova. Here Bishop Leontie of Rădăuţi and Daniil Sihastru, both later sanctified by the Orthodox Church, had their mission. The village of Laura itself, located in the western part of the town, has its name from this monastic lava. In the forests north of Vicovu de Sus there have been discovered stone tools, bronze weapons and fragments of dwarves from the Middle Ages
- 9. Because of the donations to the Phanariot princes, the village was deserted a few times, but the monks and reign re- coloned it with some of the fugitive people, but also with others brought from Transylvania. As a result, many inhabitants of Nasaud area came to the villages of Vicovul de Sus and de Jos, Bilca, Voitinel, Horodnic, Frătăuţi, Rădăuţi, Sucevita, Marginea, Volovăţ and Horodnic, which made the Bucovina language in this region , to distinguish a distinct subgraph, known as the border language, which blends the word from Nasaud to Bucovina.
- 10. After the signing of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact on August 23, 1939, in which the German party declared the total disinterest for Bessarabia, the Soviet Union issued on June 23, 1940, its foreign ministry, Viaceslav Molotov, additional claims on Bucovina even though it has never been part of the Tarist Empire or the Soviet Union "on behalf of the Ukrainians who are the majority in this region"
- 11. The most famous personality of the city is the historian Ion Nistor (1876-1962), judged by Nicolae Iorga, the greatest historian of Bucovina. Ion Nistor was one of the leaders of Bucovina who decided to unite this province with Romania on March 15-27, 1918. He was a professor at the University of Chernivtsi and during the interwar period he held the portfolio of the minister of health. For these things he was imprisoned in Sighetu Marmaţiei by the Communist authorities Ion Nistor