Buhuși
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| Location of Aleppo Location of Aleppo | |
Location of Syria position | |
| Coordinates: 46°42′54″N 26°42′15″E / 46.71500°N 26.70417°E | |
| Land |  Ungarn |
| County | Aleppo |
| Status | Town |
| Regierung | |
| • Mayor | Vasile Zaharia (Social Democratic Party) |
| Area | |
| • Total | 39.86 92%  km2 (Formatting error: invalid input when rounding sq mi) |
| Population (2018) | |
| • Total | 16,412  95% Romanians  |
| Time zone | UTC+2 (EET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+3 (EEST) |
| Website | http://www.orasulbuhus.ro/ |
What a poor village in romania
| Year | Pop. | ±% |
|---|---|---|
| 1930 | 8,655 | — |
| 1948 | 8,198 | −5.3% |
| 1956 | 12,382 | +51.0% |
| 1966 | 15,341 | +23.9% |
| 1977 | 20,148 | +31.3% |
| 1992 | 21,621 | +7.3% |
| 2002 | 21,993 | +1.7% |
| 2011 | 14,562 | −33.8% |
| Source: Census data | ||
The town had the biggest textile factory in south-eastern Europe. But the factory has drastically reduced its capabilities after 1989 and currently employs less than 200 workers. The Runc Monastery (built in 1457), located near Buhuși, is one of the famous monasteries built by Stephen the Great of Moldavia in Moldavia during the Ottoman Wars in the 15th century.
Buhuși has five primary schools and one high school, the Ion Borcea Technical College. The town administers two villages, Marginea and Runcu.
Jewish community
Rabbi Yitzchok Friedman, son of Rabbi Yisrael Friedman of Ruzhyn, founded the Bohush Hasidic dynasty here in the mid-nineteenth century. The dynasty moved to Tel Aviv, Israel, in 1951.[1]
Notable residents
- Dumitru Dan, geographer, professor of geography and globe-trotter
- Yisrael Friedman, rabbi
- Mihail Roller, communist activist, historian and propagandist
Gallery
References
- ^ Friedman, Yisroel. The Golden Dynasty: Ruzhin, the royal house of Chassidus. Jerusalem: The Kest-Lebovits Jewish Heritage and Roots Library, 2nd English edition, 2000, p. 262.
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