Raionul Sîngerei

Sîngerei

District (Raion)

Flag	Coat of arms

Country

Republic of Moldova

Administrative center
(Oraş-reşedinţă)

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)

Website

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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