Botosani

Botoșani is the capital metropolis of Botoșani County, within the northern a part of Moldavia, Romania. Today, it is excellent called the birthplace of many celebrated Romanians, including Mihai Eminescu, Nicolae Iorga and Grigore Antipa. Botoșani is first noted in 1439, wherein one chronicle says that "the Mongols came and pillaged all the manner to Botușani". The city is then mentioned only throughout the conflicts among Moldavia and Poland: several battles had been fought near the city, in 1500, 1505 and 1509. During the reign of Petru Rareș, the metropolis become set ablaze with the aid of the Poles.

It became for the duration of his reign then that we recognize that the town had a hill fort. In the 15th century, it become still not a completely-fledged town, however archeological evidence suggests that it was a pre-urban settlement. During the second part of the 14th century, some Transylvanian colonists settled in Botoșani. Additionally, a large network of Armenian traders settled inside the 14th or fifteenth centuries.