Dorohoi
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| County | Botoşani County | ||
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| Status | Municipality | ||
| Mayor | Sergiu Lungu, Social Democrat Party, since 2004 | ||
| Area | 60.39 km² | ||
| Population (2002) | 31,073 | ||
| Density | 514 inh/km² | ||
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| Web site | http://www.primaria.dorohoi.com/ | ||
Dorohoi is a city in the Botoşani County, Romania, on the right bank of the river Jijia, which broadens into a lake on the north.
Dorohoi used to be a market for the timber and farm produce of the north Moldavian highlands; merchants from the neighboring states flocked to its great fair, held on the June 12. The settlement is first mentioned in documents from 1408, where a treaty was signed between Moldavian voievode, Alexandru cel Bun, and Polish King, Ladislaus III. This suggests that the role of Dorohoi as a commercial center existed long before the founding of the Moldavian state.
Dorohoi used to be the capital of the Dorohoi county, but was degraded to a municipality when Romania lost Northern Bucovina to the Soviet Union.
On July 1, 1940, units of the Romanian Army took their anger on the local Jews in a pogrom.
http://www.nizkor.org/hweb/people/c/carmelly-felicia/dorohoi-pogrom.html
In the city there is a church built by Ştefan cel Mare.
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