Călărași, Moldova
🇲🇩 Călărași is a town in Moldova, founded in 1848.
Long ago, the word "călărași" meant "horsemen" (today the word is "călăreți"). The name of Călărași was inspired by a legend which tells that once, when Stephen III of Moldavia fought the Ottomans, he ordered a regiment of horsemen to stand guard. They fought the Ottomans, sacrificed themselves and, finally, won the battle.
Călărași was historically a Hassidic Jewish town: 4,593, or 89% of the population, were Jewish occupants in 1897. In 1905, 60 Jews were killed, 300 were injured and over 200 houses were burned down as part of the wave of Russian pogroms. Many of the survivors fled to nearby Chișinău or emigrated to Romania, Austria, Palestine and the United States. In 1930, 3,631 residents (76% of the population) were Jewish. The Jewish community had welfare organizations, a hospital, a Talmud Torah and a library among other community facilities.
In 2018, Dumitru Grosei released an ethnographic documentary in Romanian called "Călărași – A Land by the Gate of Heaven" focused on the town's cultural history and folklore.
The city is the administrative centre of Călărași District; it also administers one village, Oricova.
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Călărași has a population of over 10,800 people. Călărași also forms the centre of the wider Călărași County which has a population of over 64,401 people.
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Twin Towns, Sister Cities Călărași has links with:
🇵🇱 Bielsk Podlaski, Poland 🇷🇴 Călărași, Romania 🇷🇴 Covasna, Romania 🇫🇷 Villefranche-sur-Saône, France🇫🇷 Saint-Nazaire 47.274
🇨🇭 Affoltern am Albis 47.283
🇧🇾 Asipovichy 28.467
Locations Near: Călărași 28.3,47.25
🇲🇩 Strășeni 28.617,47.133 d: 27.2
🇲🇩 Ungheni 27.807,47.208 d: 37.5
🇲🇩 Orhei 28.817,47.383 d: 41.7
🇲🇩 Ialoveni 28.783,46.95 d: 49.5
🇲🇩 Chișinău 28.828,47.028 d: 46.9
🇲🇩 Bălți 27.932,47.774 d: 64.5
🇷🇴 Vaslui 27.717,46.633 d: 81.6
Antipodal to: Călărași -151.7,-47.25
🇵🇫 Papeete -149.566,-17.537 d: 16705.4
🇹🇴 Nuku'alofa -175.216,-21.136 d: 16424.4
🇦🇸 Pago Pago -170.701,-14.279 d: 15948.4
🇼🇸 Apia -171.76,-13.833 d: 15859.4
🇺🇸 Hilo -155.089,19.725 d: 12560
🇺🇸 Maui -156.446,20.72 d: 12442.2
🇺🇸 Maui County -156.617,20.868 d: 12424.7
🇺🇸 Kahului -156.466,20.891 d: 12423.1