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Raionul Sîngerei

Sîngerei
District (Raion)
Flag of Sîngerei
Flag
Coat of arms of Sîngerei
Coat of arms
Location of Sîngerei
Country  Republic of Moldova
Administrative center
(Oraş-reşedinţă)

Sângerei stema.jpg Sîngerei
Government
 • Raion president Gheorghe Meaun (PLDM), since 2011
Area
 • Total 1,033 km2 (399 sq mi)
Population (2014)
 • Total 79,814
 • Density 77/km2 (200/sq mi)
Time zone EET (UTC+2)
 • Summer (DST) EEST (UTC+3)
Area code(s) +373 62
Car plates SG
Website singerei.md

Sîngerei is a district (Moldovan: raion) in the north of Moldova, with the administrative center at Sîngerei. The other major city is Biruinţa. As of 1 January 2011, its population was 93,400.

Between 1944 and 1991, Sîngerei district was called Lazovsky District.

Localities with the earliest documentary attestation are Coşcodeni, Drăgăneşti, Tăura Veche, these being attested for the first time during 1508–1536. District administrative center Sîngerei is first documented on 17 May 1586. In the following centuries there is a development of trade, culture and an important increase in population. In 1812 the Treaty of Bucharest, Basarabia is occupied by the Russian Empire for a period of a century (1812–1917). After the collapse of the Russian Empire in 1917, in 1918 Basarabia decide union with the motherland Romania, so the region today forming part of the Bălţi County (1918–1944). Is again occupied Basarabia in 1940 after the Molotov-Ribbentrop Treaty, this time the USSR. The territorial-administrative, certified as the district Lazovsky District (Sîngerei), was established on 11 November 1940 following a decision by the Supreme Soviet of the Moldavian SSR, a few months after Russian troops entered the area between the Prut and Nistru. Initially, the entering only a part of current locations, the other belonging Chişcăreni district, which later merged Singerei district. In 1991 as a result of the proclamation of Independence of Moldova, part of the Balti County (1991–2003), and in 2003 became administrative unit of Moldova.


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