Fălticeni

Sister cities

• Chieri
• Soroca
• Kėdainiai

History

The earliest written mention of the village Folticeni is from March 1490, and the second from March 1554, when Moldavian Prince Alexandru Lăpușneanu awarded the estate and the village bearing the aforesaid name to Moldovița Monastery. Fălticeni was first mentioned as an urban settlement in August 1780 as Târgul Șoldănești (Șoldănești Market), after the name of a local boyar's estate, in a document issued by the chancellery of Prince Constantin Moruzi. In March 1826, an edict issued by Prince Ioan Sturdza changed the name of the town to Fălticeni. Fălticeni was bombed by the Bolsheviks during World War I. Before World War I, Fălticeni was the capital of the Romanian Old Kingdom’s Suceava County. After the Union of Bukovina with Romania and an administrative reform from 1925, Fălticeni became the capital of Baia County, remaining as such until 1950. Since the revival of counties in 1968, the city has been part of Suceava County. In 1921 the Faltishan (Yiddish for Fălticeni) Hasidic dynasty was founded in Fălticeni, by Rabbi Eluzar Twersky, a scion of the Skver Hasidic sect, and part of the prestigious royal Hasidic Twersky family. Today there are Jewish communities in Brooklyn, New York carrying on the name Faltishan, led by Rabbi Twersky's descendants. The Jewish community of Falticeni, unlike those in the other urban communities in the present-day Suceava County, was not deported to Transnistria.

Geography

Fălticeni is located in the southern part of Suceava County, away from Suceava, the county seat. The European route E85 crosses the city. Fălticeni is connected to the Romanian national railway system, through Dolhasca train station (24 km away). The city of Roman is to the south, on the E85 road.