Moinesti

Moinesti is a municipality in Bacau County, Romania, with a populace of 21,787 as of 2011. Its call is derived from the Romanian-language phrase moină, because of this "fallow" or "light rain". Moinesti as soon as had a massive Jewish community; in Jewish contexts the call is regularly given as Mojnescht. The metropolis administers one village, Gazarie. First noted in 1467, the locality turned into indexed most of the Moldavian villages on the Bawer map of 1783. A târg became first attested in this vicinity in 1832; it had 188 homes and 588 population.

In 1921, Moinesti changed into certain a comuna urbana , with its personal coat of arms and neighborhood management, however a step short of being considered a metropolis. It have become a municipality in 2002. The 2011 census counted 20,855 population. The region round Moinești is wealthy in natural assets such as petroleum, herbal gas, salt and wood. Between the years Fifties and Nineteen Eighties Moinesti skilled a regular financial boom thanks to the big petroleum extracting enterprise.