Soroca: Difference between revisions

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| leader_name = Lilia Pilipețchi ([[Party of Socialists of =the [[LiliaRepublic Pilipețchiof Moldova|PSRM]])

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| population_as_of = [[2014 Moldovan Census|2014]]

| population_footnotes = <ref>[http://www.statistica.md/pageview.php?l=en&idc=479 Results of Population and Housing Census in the Republic of Moldova in 2014]: {{cite web | url= http://www.statistica.md/public/files/Recensamint/Recensamint_pop_2014/Rezultate/Tabele/Caracteristici_populatie_Comune_RPL_2014_rom_rus_eng.xls | title= Characteristics - Population (population by communes, religion, citizenship) | publisher= [[National Bureau of Statistics of the Republic of Moldova]] | format= XLS | year=2017 | access-date = 2017-05-01}}</ref>

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| website = [http://www.primsoroca.md Official website]

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'''Soroca''' ({{lang-ru|link=no|Сороки|Soroki}}, {{lang-uk|Сороки|Soroky}}, {{lang-pl|Soroki}}, {{lang-yi|סאָראָקע|Soroke}}) is a city and municipality<ref>[http://lex.justice.md/md/368393/ LEGE Nr. 248 din 03.11.2016 pentru modificarea și completarea Legii nr. 764-XV din 27 decembrie 2001 privind organizarea administrativ-teritorială a Republicii Moldova] {{in lang|ro}}</ref> in [[Moldova]], situated on the [[Dniester|Dniester River]] about {{cvt|160|km}} north of [[Chișinău]]. It is the administrative center of the [[Soroca District]]. Before the [[The Holocaust|Holocaust]], most of the population was [[Jewish]].

The city has its origin in the medieval [[Republic of Genoa|Genoese]] trade post of Olchionia, or Alchona.{{Citation needed|date=June 2010}} It is known for its well-preserved stronghold, established by the [[Principality of Moldavia|Moldavia]]n [[List of rulers of Moldavia|prince]] [[Stephen III of Moldavia|Stephen the Great]] (''Ștefan cel Mare'' in [[Romanian language|Romanian]]) in 1499.<ref name=Kaba/> The origins of the name Soroca are not fully known. Soroca (Russian: сорока) meansis Magpie inthe [[RussianEast languageSlavic languages|RussianEast Slavic]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=СОРОКАword -for Translation in English - bab[[magpie]].la|url=https://en.bab.la/dictionary/russian-english/%D1%81%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%BA%D0%B0|access-date=2021-07-29|website=en.bab.la}}</ref> Its location is only a few kilometers from the Moldova–Ukrainian border.

The original wooden fort, which defended a ford over the Dniester, was an important link in the chain of fortifications which comprised four forts (e.g., [[Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi]], then known as Akkerman, and [[Khotyn]]) on the Dniester, two forts on the [[Danube]], and three forts on the north borderborders of medieval [[Moldavia]]. Between 1543 and 1546, under the rule of [[Petru Rareș|Peter IV Rareș]], the fort was rebuilt in stone as a perfect circle with five bastions situated at equal distances.

==ClimateDemographics==

|[[2019 Moldovan local election, 2019elections|2019]]

==NativesClimate==

* [[Samuel Bronfman]] (1889–1971), a Jewish-Canadian entrepreneur, former owner of [[Seagram]]

* [[Arkady Gendler]] (1921–2017), Jewish-Ukrainian Yiddish Singer

* [[Isaac Kitrosser]], French Jewish photojournalist

* David Seltzer (1904–1994), New York Yiddish language Jewish writer, journalist and poet

* [[Nicolae SoltuzȘoltuz]], a member of [[Sfatul Țării]]

* [[Robert Steinberg]], a Jewish-Canadian mathematician

[[Category:ShtetlsHistoric Jewish communities in Moldova]]