Vaslui

County capital

View of Vaslui from the northern outskirts

Coat of arms

Location of Vaslui

Coordinates: 46°38′18″N 27°43′45″E / 46.63833°N 27.72917°ECoordinates: 46°38′18″N 27°43′45″E / 46.63833°N 27.72917°E

Romania

Vaslui County

Government

• Mayor

Vasile Pavăl (Social Democratic Party)

Population (2011)

• Total

55,407

Time zone

EET (UTC+2)

• Summer (DST)

EEST (UTC+3)

Climate

Dfb

Website

http://www.primariavaslui.ro/

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

The city administers five villages: Bahnari, Brodoc, Moara Grecilor, Rediu and Viișoara.

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 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 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 Iaşi. In 1475, Prince Stephen won his greatest battle against the Ottoman Empire in the Vaslui area. Once the Moldavian capital was moved from Suceava to Iaşi and the southern town of Bârlad became an administrative center of southern Moldavia, Vaslui declined for the next three centuries to eventually become a local borough (târg).

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