Chișinău

Chișinău
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Chișinău Location o Chișinău in Moldovae
Coordinates: 47°0′00″N 28°55′00″E
Kintra	Moldovae
Foondit	1436
Govrenment
• Mayor	Dorin Chirtoacă, syne 2007
Area
• City	571 km2 (220 sq mi)
Elevation	85 m (279 ft)
Population  (1 January 2012)
• City	1,129,300
• Density	1392.3/km2 (3,606/sq mi)
• Metro	1,211,800
Time zone	UTC+2 (EET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+3 (EEST)
Postal code	MD-20xx
Area code(s)	+373 22
Website	www.chisinau.md

Chişinău (Romanie pronunciation: [kiʃiˈnəw]; or Kishinev (afore 1991), Roushie: Кишинёв, Kishinyov) is the caipital an lairgest municipality o Moldovae. It is an aa its main industrial an commercial centre an is locatit in the middle o the kintra, on the river Bîc. The population o the ceety is 592,900 (2007) that grows tae 911,400 in the hale metropolitan aurie.

Chişinău is the maist economically prosperous locality in Moldovae, an its lairgest transportation hub. As the maist economically an socially important municipality in Moldovae, the ceety haes a braid reenge o eddicational facilities.

Name

Accordin tae ae version, the name comes frae the archaic Romane wird chişla (meanin "spring", "soorce o watter") an nouă ("new"), acause it wis biggit aroond a sma spring. Nouadays, the spring is locatit at the corner o Pushkin an Albişoara streets.

Ae alternative version, bi Stefan Ciobanu, Romanie historian an academician, haulds it, that the name wis formed the same wey as the name o Chişineu (alternative spellin: Chişinău) in Wastren Romanie, naur the mairch wi Hungary. Its Hungarian name is Kisjenő, frae whilk the Romanie name oreeginates. Kisjenő in turn comes frae kis "sma" + the "Jenő" tribe, ane o the seiven Hungarian tribes that entered the Carpathian Basin in 896 an gied the name o 21 settlements.

Chişinău is an aa kent in Roushie as Кишинёв (Kishinyov). It is written Kişinöv in the Latin Gagauz alphabet. It wis an aa written as "Кишинэу" in the Moldovan Cyrillic alphabet in Soviet times. Historically, the Inglis leid name for the ceety, "Kishinev", wis based on the modifee'd Roushie ane acause it entered the Inglis leid via Roushie at the time Chişinău wis pairt o the Roushie Empire (e.g. Kishinev pogrom). Therefore, it remains a common Inglis name in some historical contexts. Itherweys, housomeivver, the Romanie-based "Chişinău" haes been steadily gainin braider uiss, especially in written leid.

Internaitional relations

Relatit page: Leet o twin touns an sister ceeties in Moldovae

Twin touns - Sister ceeties

Chişinău is twinned wi:

Ankara in Turkey (syne 2001) Eskişehir in Turkey Akhisar in Turkey Bucharest in Romanie Gdańsk in Poland Greensboro in Unitit States Grenoble in Fraunce

Iaşi in Romanie Kiev in Ukraine Kraków in Poland Mannheim in Germany Odessa in Ukraine Patras in Greece

Reggio Emilia in Italy Sacramento in Unitit States Tel Aviv in Israel (syne 2000) Yerevan in Armenie (syne 2005) Vilnius in Lithuanie