Bogdana, Vaslui

Bogdana
Commune

Location of Bogdana
Coordinates: 46°32′N 27°37′E / 46.533°N 27.617°ECoordinates: 46°32′N 27°37′E / 46.533°N 27.617°E
Country Romania
County Vaslui
Population (2007)
 • Total 1,849
Postal code 737075

Bogdana is a commune in Vaslui County, Romania.

The commune of Bogdana is one of the most developed communes of Vaslui County from an agricultural and economic point of view.

Bogdana is situatated in the central-west part of Vaslui county. It falls within the region of the Tutova Hills, with the hilly landscape characteristic of that zone.

On is bordered on the north by the commune Puşcaşi, on the east by the commune Lipovăț, on extreme southeast by the commune Bogdăneşti, on the southwest by the commune Alexandru Vlahuţă, on the south by the commune Bogdănița, and on the west by the commune Poienești.[1]

The commune is composed of nine villages: Arşiţa, Bogdana, Fântâna Blănarului, Găvanu, Lacu Babei, Plopeni, Similişoara, Suceveni and Verdeş. The surface area is 5,337 hectares (13,190 acres) and the population is 3125 people. The principal economic activities are agriculture and milling and processing wood.

History

Bogdana traces back to a 15th-century settlement under the name of Zvasteleşti, at the site of the present-day village of Bogdana. A 20 October 1468 document from Stephen III of Moldavia (Ştefan cel Mare), mentions a bargain between Toader Zvasteala (after whom the village was named) and his sisters "the first living in the village of Zvasteleşti, but the others in the village of Sarbaneşti, both in Bogdana."[2] Other nearby villages mentioned are Horjastii, Sarbaneşti, and others that no longer exist. The present-day village of Suceveni dates from the 18th century, Fântâna Blănarului from 1830, Similişoara from 1845, and Lacu Babei from 1880.

Notes

  1. ↑ Consiliul Judeţean Vaslui - localităţi. Accessed online 2009-11-09.
  2. ↑ "ca primul sa iee satul Zvastelesti, iara cele de al doilea satul Sarbaneşti, ambele pe Bogdana".

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