Siret





Town in Suceava County, Romania























































Siret
Town

Former Siret town hall
Former Siret town hall



Coat of arms of Siret
Coat of arms



Siret is located in Romania

Siret

Siret



Location of Siret

Coordinates: 47°57′11″N 26°4′21″E / 47.95306°N 26.07250°E / 47.95306; 26.07250Coordinates: 47°57′11″N 26°4′21″E / 47.95306°N 26.07250°E / 47.95306; 26.07250
Country
 Romania
County Suceava County
Status Town
Government

 • Mayor
Adrian Popoiu (National Liberal Party)
Area

 • Total 43.40 km2 (16.76 sq mi)
Population
(2011 census)[1]

 • Total
Decrease7,721
 • Density 178/km2 (460/sq mi)
Time zone
UTC+2 (EET)
 • Summer (DST)
UTC+3 (EEST)
Climate Dfb
Website Official site

Siret (Romanian pronunciation: [siˈret]; German: Sereth; Polish: Seret; Hungarian: Szeretvásár, Yiddish: סערעטSeret) is a town, municipality and former Latin bishopric in Suceava County, north-eastern Romania. It is situated in the historical region of Bukovina. Siret is the 11th largest urban settlement in the county, with a population of 7,721 inhabitants, according to the 2011 census. It is one of the oldest towns in Romania and was the capital of the principality of Moldavia, in the late 14th century. The town administers two villages: Mănăstioara and Pădureni.




Contents






  • 1 Administration and local politics


    • 1.1 Town council




  • 2 Geography


  • 3 History


  • 4 Religions


  • 5 Demographics


  • 6 Notable natives


  • 7 International relations


    • 7.1 Twin towns – sister cities




  • 8 Gallery


  • 9 References


  • 10 External links





Administration and local politics



Town council


The town's current local council has the following political composition, according to the results of the 2016 Romanian local elections:

























































   
Party
Seats
Current Council
 

National Liberal Party (PNL)

7
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Social Democratic Party (PSD)

5
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Independents

2
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Ecologist Party (PER)

1
 
 
 
 
 
 
 


Geography


The town of Siret is located at the north-eastern limit of Suceava County, 2 kilometres (1 mile) from the border with Ukraine, being one of the main border passing points in the north of the country, having both a road border post and a rail connection.


The rail is on a standard gauge on the Romanian side and continues as a Russian-style broad gauge into Ukraine. Siret (actually the nearby border passing point called Vicşani – Vadul Siret) is one of the few places in Romania which provides a gauge change equipment, allowing transportation without transfer.


Siret is situated at the half distance between Chernivtsi and Suceava, on the right banks of Siret River. The European route E85 crosses the city.



History




Holy Trinity Church (1352), one of the oldest in Romania


During the period 1211–1225, on a hill near Siret a fortress was built by the Teutonic Knights. The town and the Teutonic castle were destroyed by the Tatars in 1241. The first document of Siret dates back to 1339, according to some historical sources. The town was the capital of the former principality of Moldavia, in the late 14th century.


The Russian imperial Army occupied the town in 1770, and, as a consequence, an epidemic of cholera broke out. Together with the rest of Bukovina, Siret was under the imperial rule of the Habsburg Monarchy (later Austria-Hungary) from 1775 to 1918.


During World War II, Siret was captured on 3 April 1944 by Soviet troops of the 1st Ukrainian Front in the course of the Dnieper–Carpathian Offensive.



Religions


Given the 14th century decline of the Byzantine empire as Orthodox regional superpower-ally and Latin mendicant orders missions since the 13th century, prince Bogdan I of Moldavia obtained virtual independence in 1359 as founding voivode (autonomous prince), seeking aid and protection from Poland, welcomed Latin missionaries, Francescans (founding a monastery at Siret in 1340) and Dominicans. His son and indirect successor Lațcu of Moldavia (1365-1373) promised Rome his and the people's conversion to Catholicism and asked Pope Urban V to send missionaries and erect a Latin diocese in his principality's capital, Siret, which happened in 1371, initially directly subject to the Holy See until 1412 when it was made suffragan of the Archbishopric of Lviv (Lemberg in German; now in Ukraine). This Roman Catholic Diocese of Siret started to decline in 1388 when prince Petru of Moldavia transferred the Moldavian voivode's capital from Siret to Suceava, and was effectively suppressed, but from circa 1418, the Holy See erected another Moldavian bishopric, the Diocese of Baia, which inherited its territory (1434?).


There was a Jewish community by the mid-16th century. Zionist activity began at the turn of the 20th century, a time when most of the local Jews worked in commerce. From 1912 to 1918, the mayor was Jewish and the town council included Jews. During World War I, Jews fled in advance of the Imperial Russian Army, and found their property destroyed when they returned. After the union of Bukovina with Romania, the new authorities revoked licenses for Jewish members of the free professions and removed Jewish officials from their posts. In 1930, there were 2,121 Jews or 14% of the town's population. In 1936, Baruch Hager of the Vizhnitz dynasty was named rabbi and opened a yeshiva. During the interwar period, there was activity by Zionist youth movements. On June 20, 1941, just before Romania's entry into World War II, the authorities of the Ion Antonescu regime forced the Jews of Siret to march to Dornești before transporting them to Craiova and Calafat and finally Transnistria (see The Holocaust in Romania). Soviet troops liberated 460 Siret Jews there in 1944; 400 of them subsequently left for Palestine.[2]


Today, most of the population is Romanian Orthodox, with Roman Catholic, Pentecostal, Greek-Catholic and Christian Evangelical minorities.



Demographics




























































Historical population
Year Pop. ±%
1910 7,948 —    
1930 9,905 +24.6%
1948 8,058 −18.6%
1956 5,664 −29.7%
1966 8,018 +41.6%
1977 8,264 +3.1%
1992 10,071 +21.9%
2002 9,329 −7.4%
2011 7,721 −17.2%
2016 9,720 +25.9%
Source: Austrian and Romanian census data and/or official estimates

Siret reached its peak population in 1992, when more than 10,000 people were living within the town limits. In 2016, Siret had a population of c. 10,000 inhabitants.[3]


According to the 2011 census data, 7,721 inhabitants lived in Siret, a decrease from the figure recorded at the 2002 census, when the town had a population of 9,329 inhabitants. In 2011, of the total population, 95.85% were ethnic Romanians, 2.55% Ukrainians, 0.72% Poles, 0.42% Germans (Bukovina Germans), 0.28% Russians (Lipovans).


Siret is the eleventh most populated urban locality in Suceava County.



Notable natives




  • Yitzhak Artzi - Israeli politician


  • Elisabeth Axmann - Romanian-German poet


  • Elisabeta Lipă - Romanian rower


  • Victorin Ursache - Romanian archbishop



International relations


Siret is a member of the Douzelage, a unique town twinning association of 24 towns across the European Union. This active program began in 1991, and regular events, such as a produce market from each of the other countries[clarification needed] and festivals.[4][5] Discussions regarding membership are also in hand with three additional towns (Agros in Cyprus, Škofja Loka in Slovenia, and Tryavna in Bulgaria).



Twin towns – sister cities



Siret is twinned with:









  • Spain Altea, Spain - 1991


  • Germany Bad Kötzting, Germany - 1991


  • Italy Bellagio, Italy - 1991


  • Republic of Ireland Bundoran, Ireland - 1991


  • France Granville, France - 1991


  • Denmark Holstebro, Denmark - 1991


  • Belgium Houffalize, Belgium - 1991


  • Netherlands Meerssen, Netherlands - 1991





  • Luxembourg Niederanven, Luxembourg - 1991


  • Greece Preveza, Greece - 1991


  • Portugal Sesimbra, Portugal - 1991


  • United Kingdom Sherborne, United Kingdom - 1991


  • Finland Karkkila, Finland - 1997


  • Sweden Oxelösund, Sweden - 1998


  • Austria Judenburg, Austria - 1999


  • Poland Chojna, Poland - 2004





  • Hungary Kőszeg, Hungary - 2004


  • Latvia Sigulda, Latvia - 2004


  • Czech Republic Sušice, Czech Republic - 2004


  • Estonia Türi, Estonia - 2004


  • Slovakia Zvolen, Slovakia - 2007


  • Lithuania Prienai, Lithuania - 2008


  • Malta Marsaskala, Malta - 2009


  • Poland Dębica, Poland[6]




Gallery




References





  1. ^ "Suceava County at the 2011 census" (PDF) (in Romanian). INSSE. February 2, 2012. Archived from the original (PDF) on June 4, 2013. Retrieved March 12, 2012..mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"""""""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration{color:#555}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration span{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg/12px-Wikisource-logo.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output code.cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#33aa33;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-right{padding-right:0.2em}


  2. ^ Shmuel Spector, Geoffrey Wigoder (eds.), The Encyclopedia of Jewish Life Before and During the Holocaust: Seredina-Buda-Z, p. 1186-87. NYU Press, 2001,
    ISBN 978-081-4793-78-7



  3. ^ "Populaţia României pe localitati la 1 ianuarie 2016" (in Romanian). INSSE. 6 June 2016. Retrieved 27 October 2017.


  4. ^ "Douzelage.org: Home". www.douzelage.org. Archived from the original on February 17, 2010. Retrieved October 21, 2009.


  5. ^ "Douzelage.org: Member Towns". www.douzelage.org. Archived from the original on April 6, 2009. Retrieved October 21, 2009.


  6. ^ "Partnerstwo Samorządów Siłą Europy". Europa Miast (in Polish). Retrieved 2013-08-13.




External links








  • (in Romanian) Siret Town Hall official site


  • (in Romanian) Siret unofficial site


  • (in Romanian) Laţcu Vodă High School, Siret


  • (in Romanian) The Chronic Diseases Hospital of Siret


  • (in Romanian) Suceava County site - Siret web page


  • (in Romanian) Photo Gallery - Old photos of Siret









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