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![[flag of Străşeni]](../images/m/md-st.gif)
image by Vanja Poposki, 5 July 2012
Subdivisions of Străşeni District
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The district of Strășeni (82,675 inhabitants - 18,934 in urban areas and 63,741
in rural areas: 72,900 ha) is located in central Moldova, 25 km north-west of
Chişinău. The district is composed of the towns of Străşeni and Bucovăţ, and
another 37 villages.
Strășeni was first documented on 20 March 1545 when
Voivod Alexander, ruler of Moldavia, granted half of the town to the Pobrata
monastery. In the 18th century, Strășeani de pe Bīc (on river Bīc) was listed
among the possessions of the Sfīnta Vineri monastery in Iaşi.
The district of
Strășeni was established in November 1940.
Strășeni is said to come from
Romanian "straşnic", "awful, horrifying", referring to bloody battles fought
there during the reign of Stephen the Great, or to rascals that terrorized
people crossing the forest when heading to Chişinău, so that the place was
deemed haunted. In the less violent sense of "amazing", the world can also refer
to the skillful local carpenters, who produced famous canopies.
http://crstraseni.md/
District website
The flag of the district is
rectangular (2:3), vertically divided yellow-green, with an uprooted oak
countercolored, surrounded by two barrel seen from the bottom, the one on the
right green and the one on the left yellow.
The flag is a banner of the arms
of the district.
http://crstraseni.md/index.php?pag=page&id=796&l=ro
District website,
also the source of the image.
The current territory of
the district of Străşeni was part of the medieval domains of Lăpuşna and Orhei,
which were separated by river Bīc. In the modern era, the two domains were
merged into the county of Lăpuşna-Orhei, subsequently the county of Orhei. The
current territory of the district of Străşeni was part of this county, whose
capital was Chişinău, and which was granted on 2 April 1826 a coat of arms,
"Azure an oak argent on a base proper", symbolizing the abundance of forests. In
1835, the county of Orhei was split into the counties of Chişinău and Orhei,
each with its capital in the homonymous town. The old coat of arms with the oak
was kept for the county of Chişinău while a new coat of arms was created in 1837
for the county of Orhei, featuring on a base proper an oak (taken from the old
coat of arms) flanked sinister by a scythe, which symbolized the hay fields of
the county. The two coats of arms were preserved even after 1918, their heraldic
design being fixed on 1 August 1928, as follows:
- county of Lăpuşna (until
1925, county of Chişinău "Gules an oak argent on a base of the same";
-
county of Orhei; "Per pale, 1. Gules an oak eradicated or, 2. Gules a scythe
argent". on red, an uprooted oak tree of gold, and in the second partition, also
on red, a silver scythe. As for the current territory of the district of
Străşeni district, it was divided between the two counties, Chişinău/Lăpuşna
county receiving two thirds of it.
Keeping the oak as an historical
charge in the arms of the district of Străşeni is fully justified, first of all
because it was a common emblem for both historical counties and especially
because the tree descended from the coat of arms from 1826, when the two
counties formed a single .
The split of the field and of its main charge is
related both to the two historical domains and to the two banks of river Bīc,
which still today separates the district into two parts.
The choice of the
oak is justified once more by the local extraordinary forest resources. The
Codru nature reserve and the oak of Stephen the Great in Scoreni are also
alluded to by the same charge.
The forest meaning is also reinforced by the
green color, which is the color of vegetation, woods, spring, youth, beauty,
freedom, health, hope and joy. Or (yellow in the flag) is the color of the sun,
light, antiquity, grandeur, intelligence, prestige and virtue.
The second
heraldic charge is a reference to viticulture and wine-making, as the
predominant source of income in the district. A wine barrel was chosen as a
charge less frequent in the heraldic designs of the Republic of Moldova than
others [grapes]. The barrel, as a straightforward reference to wine making, will
achieve an additional identification of the place compared to other places in
the country with similar coats of arms. The wine growers, the ten wine
factories, and the coopers from Scoreni will also be represented by this charge.
The barrels are represent lying down, seen from the bottom, with the corks
hammered in, thus implying that the barrels are already filled with wine.
The
district crown that surmounts the shield highlights the hierarchical position of
the district in the administrative territorial division system of the Republic
of Moldova.
http://crstraseni.md/index.php?pag=page&id=765&l=ro
District website
The Codru / Codrii (Forest / Forests) reserve occupies
was Moldova's first reserve, created by a Decision of the Council of Ministers
issued on 27 September 1971. It is located in the northwestern part of the
Căpriana forest massif, between the villages of Lozova, Micleuşeni, Bursuc and
Drăguşeni. The reserve serves as a repository of the genetic resources of the
central European forests.
The area is 5,177 ha (including 96.7% forests), to
which is also added a protection zone of about 12,300 ha. About 1,000 plant
species are protected in the reserve. Out of the 800 vascular species, 60 are
rare, and 23 are included in the Red Book of Moldova. Many of the giant trees,
over 250 years old, are protected by the state as natural monuments, the
legendary one being the oak of Stephen the Great.
http://crstraseni.md/index.php?pag=page&id=802&l=ro
District website
![[flag of Cojușna Village]](../images/m/md-stcoj.gif)
image by Ivan Sache, 4 September 2022
The flag and arms of the village of Cojușna are prescribed by Decree No. 549
signed on 18 July 2022 by the President of the Republic and published on 22
July 2022 in the official gazette of the Republic of Moldova, No. 221-229.
Article 1.
The flag and arms of the village of Cojușna, district of
Strășeni, approved by Decision No. 4.11 issued on 16 June 2022 by the Village
Council of Cojușna (Appendices No. 1 and 2), shall be registered in the General
Armorial of the Republic of Moldova.
Appendix No. 1
Coat of arms of
the village of Cojușna, district of Strășeni
Ermine a cross gules in canton
a bunch of grapes vert.
The shield surmounted by a village crown or.
Appendix No. 2
Flag of the village of Cojușna, district of Strășeni
The
flag is a square ermine cloth, charged with a red cross and a bunch of green
grapes in canton.
https://www.legis.md/cautare/getResults?doc_id=132289&lang=ro
Official
gazette of the Republic of Moldova
Ivan Sache, 4 September 2022
![[flag of Gălești Village]](../images/m/md-stgal.gif)
image by Ivan Sache, 4 September 2022
The flag and arms of the village of Gălești are prescribed by Decree No. 367
signed on 7 March 2022 by the President of the Republic and published on 11
March 2022 in the official gazette of the Republic of Moldova, No. 68-71.
Article 1.
The flag and arms of the village of Gălești, commune of
Gălești, district of Strășeni, approved by Decision No. 1/11 issued on 16
February 2022 by the Village Council of Cojușna (Appendices No. 1 and 2), shall
be registered in the General Armorial of the Republic of Moldova.
Appendix No. 1
Coat of arms of the village of Gălești, commune of Gălești,
district of Strășeni
Vert a dextrochere armed argent holding a sword of the
same hilted or the blade ensigned by a nightingale of the same cantoned by three
horseshoes of the same.
The shield surmounted by a village crown or.
Appendix No. 2
Flag of the village of Gălești, commune of Gălești, district
of Strășeni
The flag is a square green cloth, charged in the center with a
dextrochere with a white armor holding a white sword with a yellow hilt, a
yellow nightingale standing on the blade..
https://www.legis.md/cautare/getResults?doc_id=130251&lang=ro
Official
gazette of the Republic of Moldova
Image from the
official gazette of the Republic of Moldova
Ivan Sache, 4 September 2022