Drochia
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Drochia
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  Drochia Location in Moldova | |
| Coordinates: 48°2′N 27°45′E / 48.033°N 27.750°E / 48.033; 27.750 | |
| Country | Moldova |
| District | Drochia District |
| Established | 1777 |
| Government | |
| • Mayor | Cereteu Nina (PN), since 2015 |
| Elevation | 741 ft (226 m) |
| Population | |
| • Total | 13,150 |
| Time zone | UTC+2 (EET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+3 (EEST) |
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MD-52xx
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| Area code | +373 252 xx x xx |
| Climate | Dfb |
Drochia (Romanian pronunciation: [ˈdroki.ja]) is a city in the northern part of Moldova. It is the administrative center of the eponymous district. The city is located 174.4 km (108.4 mi) north of the national capital, Chișinău, and 67 km (42 mi) north-east of the Romanian city of Iaşi. The average elevation of Drochia is 226 meters. The population at the 2004 census was 16,606.
The name of the city comes from a local type of bird, called dropie (English: great bustard).
Drochia is first mentioned by chroniclers in 1777. By 1830 it was a small settlement encompassing 25 families. A document dating from 1847 notes that a small grape-processing plant, the town's first industrial enterprise, had been built. Two mills situated on a local stream were built in 1875.
More intensive industrial development emerged after the railway first came through at the end of the 19th century. At the 1930 census, the locality (then a village) was known as Drochia-Gară (literally Drochia Station), and had a population of only 595. It was part of Plasa Bădiceni of the Soroca County.
Drochia received the status of a city in 1973.
According to the 2014 census, the population of Drochia amounted to 13,150 inhabitants, a decrease compared to the previous census in 2004, when 16,606 inhabitants were registered. Of these, 6,083 were men and 7,067 were women.[2]
Ethnic composition of Drochia (2014)[3]
Footnotes:
* There is an ongoing controversy regarding the ethnic identification of Moldovans and Romanians.
* Moldovan language is one of the two local names for the Romanian language in Moldova. In 2013, the Constitutional Court of Moldova interpreted that Article 13 of the constitution is superseded by the Declaration of Independence,[5] thus giving official status to the name Romanian.[6][7]
| Ethnic composition (1930 Census) | |||
| Romanians | 181 | ||
| Ruthenians and Ukrainians | 77 | ||
| Russians | 209 | ||
| Jews | 112 | ||
| Poles | 5 | ||
| Armenians | 7 | ||
| Serbians, Croatians, Slovenes | 1 | ||
| others | 3 | ||
| Total | 595 | ||
| Linguistic composition (1930 Census) | ||
| Romanian | 198 | |
| Russian | 210 | |
| Yiddish | 102 | |
| Ukrainian | 80 | |
| Polish | 4 | |
| other | 1 | |
| Total | 595 | |
| Year | Pop. | ±% |
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| 1930 | 595 | — |
| 1959 | 6,638 | +1015.6% |
| 1970 | 11,161 | +68.1% |
| 1979 | 15,280 | +36.9% |
| 1989 | 21,298 | +39.4% |
| 2004 | 16,606 | −22.0% |
| 2014 | 13,150 | −20.8% |
Drochia is twinned with:
124. ... Prin urmare, Curtea consideră că prevederea conținută în Declarația de Independență referitoare la limba română ca limbă de stat a Republicii Moldova prevalează asupra prevederii referitoare la limba moldovenească conținute în articolul 13 al Constituției.[124. ... Therefore, the Court considers that the provision contained in the Declaration of Independence regarding the Romanian language as the state language of the Republic of Moldova prevails over the provision regarding the Moldovan language contained in Article 13 of the Constitution.]
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1InTransnistria. 2 Controlled by the Transnistrian authorities. 3 Also a municipality. 4 The seat of Dubăsari District is the commune of Cocieri (not a city). | ||
