Călărași
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city in Moldova
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Place details
- Locality
- Călărași
- Region
- Călăraşi
- Country
- Moldova
- Population
- 14,066
- Timezone
- Europe/Chisinau
via OpenStreetMap · GeoNames
Key facts
- Country
- Moldova
- County
- Călărași District
- Total
- 423 km (163 sq mi)
- Density
- 25.6/km (66.2/sq mi)
- Time zone
- UTC+2 ( EET )
- Summer dst
- UTC+3 ( EEST )
- Climate
- Dfb
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- city
- Official name
- Călărași
- Country
- Principality of Moldavia
- Population
- 9469
- Image
- Railway terminal, Calarasi (Moldova).jpg
- Dialing code
- 0244
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- Commons category
- Călărași, Moldova
- twinned administrative body
- Covasna
- postal code
- MD-4400
- P8168
- Tatra T.101
- different from
- Călărași
- time of earliest written record
- 1432-01-00
- native label
- Călărași
- described by source
- Jewish Encyclopedia of Brockhaus and Efron
- P12749
- Kim Wilde
- male population
- 4452
- female population
- 5017
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Encyclopedic overview
Călărași ( Romanian pronunciation: [kələˈraʃʲ] ) is a town in Moldova, founded in 1848.
Long ago, the word "călărași" meant "horsemen" (today the word is "călăreți"). The name of Călărași was inspired by a legend which tells that once, when Stephen III of Moldavia fought the Ottomans, he ordered a regiment of horsemen to stand guard. They fought the Ottomans, sacrificed themselves and, finally, won the battle.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Călărași” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.