Dorohoi

Sister cities

• Drochia
• Edineț
• Ungheni
• Cholet
• Hertsa

History

Dorohoi used to be a market for the timber and farm produce of the north Moldavian highlands; merchants from the neighboring states flocked to its great fair, held on the June 12. The settlement is first mentioned in documents from 1408, where a treaty was signed between Moldavian voievode, Alexandru cel Bun, and the King of Poland and Hungary. Dorohoi was bombed by the Russians during World War I. Dorohoi used to be the capital of Dorohoi County, but was downgraded to a municipality when the Soviet Union occupied Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina in late June 1940. On July 1, 1940, units of the Romanian Army attacked local Jews in a pogrom. These military actions against the Jews were not endorsed by the Romanian Government. When the conspiracy against the Jews was discovered by the military command, troops were sent to end the abuse.

Geography

The northeastern town of Dorohoi witnessed deaths during the night of June 28–29, 2010 as floods rose to just over in some places. Several roads into Dorohoi remained either washed away or under water. The heavy rain that had been falling for close to a week had forecasters warning that it would continue in northeast Romania.

Most-observed species

• Common Amaranth

  Amaranthus retroflexus L. · Magnoliopsida
  70
• False-acacia

  Robinia pseudoacacia L. · Magnoliopsida
  59
• Californian Burr, Burweed, Cocklebur

  Xanthium orientale L. · Magnoliopsida
  58
• Annual Fleabane

  Erigeron annuus (L.) Pers. · Magnoliopsida
  58
• Canadian Fleabane

  Erigeron canadensis L. · Magnoliopsida
  52
• Ragweed

  Ambrosia artemisiifolia L. · Magnoliopsida
  37
• Eurasian Collared-Dove

  Streptopelia decaocto (Frivaldszky, 1838) · Aves
  33
• Walnut

  Juglans regia L. · Magnoliopsida
  32

Most recent

• M 4.4 — 2011-06-24
  3 km SE of Ostra, Romania
• M 4.1 — 2005-02-13
  2 km N of Or??eni-Deal, Romania