Zgurița

Also known as Zguriţa

Zgurița () is a village in Drochia District, in the north of Moldova. At the 2004 census, it had a population of 2,840.

Key facts

Settlement.name: Zgurița
Settlement.settlement_type: Village
Settlement.image_skyline: Zgurita,center1.jpg
Settlement.image_caption: Zgurita, center
Settlement.pushpin_map: Moldova
Settlement.subdivision_type: Country
Settlement.subdivision_type2: District
Settlement.subdivision_name2: Drochia District
Settlement.leader_party: Independent
Settlement.leader_title: Mayor
Settlement.leader_name: Victor Guțu
Settlement.population_total: 2,065

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Zgurița () is a village in Drochia District, in the north of Moldova. At the 2004 census, it had a population of 2,840.

==History== The village was founded by merging three localities: Zgura in the North, Nicorești in North-West, two Romanian villages mentioned before 1812, and Zgurița (little Zgura), in South-West, a Jewish agricultural colony founded in 1853 on an area of over rented by Jewish settlers in Bessarabia. It was the last Jewish agricultural settlement in Bessarabia. Nicorești was eventually separated from Zgurița.