Coordinates: 46°38′18″N 27°43′45″E

Vaslui
Vaslui (Romanian pronunciation: [vasˈluj]), a city in eastern
Romania, is the seat of Vaslui County, in the historical region Vaslui
of Western Moldavia. Municipality

The city administers five villages: Bahnari, Brodoc, Moara

Grecilor, Rediu and Viișoara.

Contents
History
Demographics
Censuses
Districts Vaslui cityscape
Education
Economy
Transport
Sport
Natives Coat of arms
Twin towns
Gallery
References
External links

History
Archaeological surveys indicate that the territory of Vaslui
was inhabited since the Neolithic. From the 14th century
onwards, it developed as the provincial town of Vaslui, with a
population that fluctuated considerably in the following
centuries. The name of Vaslui appears first in a Polish Location in Vaslui County
document from 1375, referring to Koriat's son Yuri
Koriatovich. The name Vaslui was also mentioned in 1435, in
connection with the accession of Prince Iliaș to the Moldavian
throne. The town was burned to the ground in 1439 and 1440
Vaslui
when Tatars invaded Moldavia.

The peak of Vaslui's importance was in the 15th century,

when it was a second-rank capital of Moldavia, during the
reign of Stephen the Great (r. 1457-1504) and its population
approached that of the neighbouring Iași. In 1475, Prince
Stephen won his greatest battle against the Ottoman Empire in
 the Vaslui area. Once the Location in Romania
Moldavian capital was Coordinates: 46°38′18″N 27°43′45″E
moved from Suceava to
Country Romania
Iași and the southern
town of Bârlad became County Vaslui
an administrative center Government
of southern Moldavia, • Mayor Vasile Pavăl[1]
Vaslui declined for the (PSD)
next three centuries to Population (2011)[2] 55,407
Building from the medieval
eventually become a
Princely Court historical Time zone EET/EEST
local borough (târg).
ensemble in Vaslui (UTC+2/+3)
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There once was a fairly large Jewish community in the city of Website www
Vaslui. Its arrival from Galicia during the second half of the .primariavaslui.ro
19th century gave a new impetus to local economic (http://www.primari
development. In 1899, Jews formed 37% of the population, avaslui.ro/)
and Vaslui was home to the Vasloi Hasidic dynasty. However,
waves of pogroms, associated with the Holocaust (see Romania during World War II and Holocaust in
Romania) as well as emigration to Israel during Romania's communist period decimated this population.

During World War II, the Stephen the Great Monument was relocated from Chișinău to Vaslui. On 22 August
1944, Vaslui was captured by Soviet troops of the 2nd Ukrainian Front in the course of the Jassy–Kishinev
Offensive.

The population of Vaslui grew steadily again after 1968, when the town was proclaimed as the administrative
center of Vaslui County, with immigration from the neighbouring countryside, attracted by the industries set up
by the Communist regime.

Demographics
According to the last census, from 2011, there were 55,407 people living within the city of Vaslui,[3] making it
the 40th largest city in Romania. The ethnic makeup is as follows:

Romanians: 98.63%
Romani people: 1.19%
Lipovans: 0.06%
Other: 0.12%

The population decreased again after the downfall of Communism in 1989, due to low fertility rate, and
emigration.

The majority of the population is of Romanian ethnicity. The Roma minority lives compactly in the
southwestern suburbs of Rediu and Brodoc, in the southwestern part of the main town (in the neighbourhoods
around Traian Street) and also scattered in the rest of the locality. In the 1960s and '70s nomadic Roma
belonging to the Kalderash caste were forcibly settled by the Communists in the northern part of the town,
scattered among ethnic Romanians. The third ethnic group is that of the Lipovans, who have in the center of
the town a church of their Old Believers Christian branch.

Censuses
 Year Population
1912 10,397
1930 15,310
1941 13,923
1948 13,738
1956 14,850
1966 17,591
1977 39,435
1992 80,614
2002 70,571
2011 55,407

According to data provided by Romanian officials in 2017, the population of Vaslui is 100,170. The
substantial increase compared to the latest census figure is due to the fact that tens of thousands of dual citizens
from neighboring Moldova come to Vaslui for their identity documents, where a Vaslui address is listed.[4]

Districts
Vaslui has several neighborhoods: 13 Decembrie, Ana Ipătescu, Castanilor, Copou, Delea, Alecu Donici,
Gheorghe Racoviță, Green Park, Gura Bustei and Traian.

Education
The city has ten schools, classes I - VIII, named after Ioan Cuza, Dimitrie Cantemir, Constantin Parfene, Elena
Cuza, Ștefan cel Mare, Mihai Eminescu, Constantin Motaș, Alexandra Nechita, Vasile Alecsandri, Mihail
Sadoveanu.

The city also has six high schools, named after Mihail Kogălniceanu, Emil Racoviță, Anghel Rugină, Ștefan
Procopiu and Ion Mincu, as well as a Sports High School.

Economy
The main industries are textiles (clothing and knitted wear) and food (baked goods, vegetable oil, meat, dairy).
There are also a number of shopping centers and supermarkets.

Transport
The newly modernized train station is located in the south of the city.

In July 1994, a trolleybus line opened. It closed in July 2009, reopening in August 2016.[5]

In the city, public transport is provided by buses and taxis.

The DN24 road passes through the city in a north-south direction (Iași-Bârlad). The DN2f heads west to
Bacău, and the DN15D north-west to Piatra Neamț. European route E581 lies to the south-east.
Sport
Vaslui is home to FC Vaslui football club which played in Liga I until 2014,
and HC Vaslui handball club which are playing in Liga Națională.

Natives
Ioan Adam Train station
Viviana Gradinaru
Lora (singer)
Nicolae Milescu
Gheorghe Mironescu
Alexandra Nechita
Alina Plugaru
Corneliu Porumboiu
Nikolai Spathari
Constantin Tănase Train station
Marcela Topor
Virgil Trofin

Twin towns
Cahul, Moldova
Quarrata, Italy
Radoviš, North Macedonia
San Fernando de Henares, Spain

Gallery

Municipal Stadium

Civic Square

Municipal Stadium

Princely Church Copou Park

 Civic Square House of Culture The Summer Theatre Palace of Justice

City Hall County Hospital Central Mall (red)

Mavrocordat Palace Old Railway Station "Mihail

Kogălniceanu" High
School

Courthouse (1907)

References
1. "Results of the 2016 local elections" (http://www.2016bec.ro/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/SIAL
2016_P_Lista_Moc-2.xlsx). Central Electoral Bureau. Retrieved 3 April 2020.
2. "Populaţia stabilă pe judeţe, municipii, oraşe şi localităti componenete la RPL_2011" (http://ww
w.recensamantromania.ro/rezultate-2/) (in Romanian). National Institute of Statistics. Retrieved
4 February 2014.
3. "Population at 20 October 2011" (http://www.recensamantromania.ro/wp-content/uploads/2014/
01/rpl_2011_populatia-pe-categorii-de-localitati.xls) (in Romanian). INSSE. January 2014.
Retrieved 18 June 2016.
 4. (in Romanian) "Vasluiul s-a umflat: oficial, resedința județului a trecut de 100.000 de locuitori",
Vremea nouǎ, May 1, 2017 (http://www.vremeanoua.ro/vasluiul-s-a-umflat-oficial-resedinta-jud
etului-a-trecut-de-100-000-de-locuitori)
5. "EU funds Romanian trolley revival" Buses issue 738 September 2015 page 25

External links
Vaslui City Hall website (http://www.primariavaslui.ro/)
Vremea Noua (newspaper) (http://www.vremeanoua.ro)
Obiectiv de Vaslui (newspaper) (http://www.odv.ro)
Monitorul de Vaslui (newspaper) (http://www.monitoruldevaslui.ro)
Adevarul de Vaslui (newspaper) (http://www.adevarul.ro/locale/vaslui/)
V24 (TV station) (http://v24tv.ro)
TVT Vaslui (TV station) (http://www.tvtotal.ro)
TV Vaslui (TV station) (http://www.tvv.ro)
TeSalut Vaslui (town's portal) (http://tesalut.ro/vaslui)
Smile FM (radio station) (http://www.smilefm.ro)

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