Vorona, Botoșani

Vorona is a municipality in the district of Botosani in Romania. It consists of the six villages Icuşeni, Joldeşti, Poiana, Vorona, Vorona Mare and Vorona - Teodoru.

Geographical location

The community Vorona lies in the historical region West of Moldova to the northeast of Romania. In the Suceava Plateau ( Podişul Sucevei ) at the Vorona - a left tributary of the Siret - in the southwest of the circle Botosani and the county roads (drum Judetean ) DJ 208H as a feeder of the European Route 58 and the DJ 208C - connects the E 583 in a northerly direction with Botosani - the location is situated 22 kilometers south of the county capital Botosani ( Botoschan ) and about 40 km southeast of the airport " Stefan cel Mare " Suceava when removed.

The community Vorona itself has a rail connection; the closest one is in the small town Liteni ( Kr Suceava ) on the railway line Suceava novel. Several times a day there are bus connections to the district capital.

History

The place Vorona 1403 was first mentioned in a donation of Prince Alexandru cel Bun ( Alexander the Great ). However, a settlement of the region dates back far longer. According to archaeological finds, at said by the locals mountain Dealul Holban of eingemeindeten village Vorona Mare, this goes back to the Neolithic period.

The place by the ( on different data) in the 17 or the end of the 18th beginning of the 19th century, founded Vorona Monastery ( Mănăstirea Vorona ), an Orthodox monastery was two kilometers from the outskirts of the village known.

The village's name comes from the Slavic language Vorona means " crow" and the legend of the monastery's history reports that this place was formerly afflicted flock of crows.

Population

On the territory of the municipality 7,998 Romanians and Magyars were recorded at the 2002 census. In the census of 20 October 2011 7,492 people were counted in the community Vorona in 2,895 households.

The main occupation of the population is agriculture and wood processing.

Attractions

• The monastery Nasterea Maicii Domnului ( Nativity of Mary ) in Vorona, one of the two churches - Adormirea Maicii Domnului - and the convent accommodation is a listed building. The church Adormirea Maicii Domnului ( Assumption), built from 1793 to 1803, has a polygonal shaped round roof with three octagonal onion-shaped domes. Nearby the church are two well-preserved large paintings on canvas "Passion " and " Doomsday ".
• The church Nasterea Maicii Domnului ( virgin birth ), a structure in the Moldovan church style with semicircular apses, with three built in Russian style towers with the typical bulb shape. In the church some valuable icons of the nineteenth century and fragments of relics of St. Nicholas and the Holy Martyrs of " Saint Sava " are kept.
• Small house in which the fifth Patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church Teoctist Arăpaşu spent the novitiate from 1929 to 1931. 2005, a marble tablet with the following inscription was on the house wall mounted: In this monastery cell, lived between 1929-1931, the brother of the monastery, Teoctist, Patriarch of Romania, 2005