Ilișești
| Ilișești | |
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| Commune | |
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Former Lutheran church, now Orthodox | |
  Ilișești | |
| Coordinates: 47°36′N 26°3′E / 47.600°N 26.050°E | |
| Country |
 Romania |
| County | Suceava County |
| Time zone | EET (UTC+2) |
| • Summer (DST) | EEST (UTC+3) |
Ilișești (German: Illischestie) is a commune located in Suceava County, Romania. It is composed of two villages, Brașca and Ilișești. The commune was called Ciprian Porumbescu (with Ilișești village its center) and included Bălăceana and Ciprian Porumbescu villages until 2004, when these were split off to form separate communes.
In the 1780s, 12 ethnic German families settled in Ilișești in the course of the Josephine colonization.[1]
References
- ↑ Welsch, Sophie A. (1986). "The Bukovina-Germans During the Habsburg Period: Settlement, Ethnic Interaction, Contributions" (PDF). Immigrants & Minorities.
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