Frătăuții Vechi

Frătăuții Vechi
Commune

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Frătăuții Vechi
Coordinates: 47°54′N 25°53′E / 47.900°N 25.883°E / 47.900; 25.883
Country  Romania
County Suceava County
Population (2002)[1] 4,638
Time zone EET (UTC+2)
  Summer (DST) EEST (UTC+3)

Frătăuții Vechi is a commune located in Suceava County, Romania. It is composed of two villages, Frătăuții Vechi and Măneuți (Hungarian: Andrásfalva).

From 1786 to 1941, Măneuți village was inhabited by the Székelys of Bukovina. In the 1780s, 16 ethnic German families settled in Frătăuții Vechi in the course of the Josephine colonization.[2]

References

  1. Romanian census data, 2002; retrieved on March 1, 2010
  2. Welsch, Sophie A. (1986). "The Bukovina-Germans During the Habsburg Period: Settlement, Ethnic Interaction, Contributions" (PDF). Immigrants & Minorities.
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Coordinates: 47°54′N 25°53′E / 47.900°N 25.883°E / 47.900; 25.883


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