Chișinău

Chişinău (; or Kishinev (afore 1991), , Kishinyov) is the caipital an lairgest municipality o Moldovae. It is an aa its main industrial an commercial centre an is locatit in the middle o the kintra, on the river Bîc. The population o the ceety is 592,900 (2007) that grows tae 911,400 in the hale metropolitan aurie.

Chişinău is the maist economically prosperous locality in Moldovae, an its lairgest transportation hub. As the maist economically an socially important municipality in Moldovae, the ceety haes a braid reenge o eddicational facilities.

 Name 
Accordin tae ae version, the name comes frae the archaic Romane wird chişla (meanin "spring", "soorce o watter") an nouă ("new"), acause it wis biggit aroond a sma spring. Nouadays, the spring is locatit at the corner o Pushkin an Albişoara streets. History o Chişinău  on Kishinev.info, Retrieved on 2008-10-12

Ae alternative version, bi Stefan Ciobanu, Romanie historian an academician, haulds it, that the name wis formed the same wey as the name o Chişineu (alternative spellin: Chişinău) in Wastren Romanie, naur the mairch wi Hungary. Its Hungarian name is Kisjenő, frae whilk the Romanie name oreeginates. Istoria Orasului  Kisjenő in turn comes frae kis "sma" + the "Jenő" tribe, ane o the seiven Hungarian tribes that entered the Carpathian Basin in 896 an gied the name o 21 settlements.  

Chişinău is an aa kent in Roushie as Кишинёв (Kishinyov). It is written Kişinöv in the Latin Gagauz alphabet. It wis an aa written as "Кишинэу" in the Moldovan Cyrillic alphabet in Soviet times. Historically, the Inglis leid name for the ceety, "Kishinev", wis based on the modifee'd Roushie ane acause it entered the Inglis leid via Roushie at the time Chişinău wis pairt o the Roushie Empire (e.g. Kishinev pogrom). Therefore, it remains a common Inglis name in some historical contexts. Itherweys, housomeivver, the Romanie-based "Chişinău" haes been steadily gainin braider uiss, especially in written leid.

 Internaitional relations 

 Twin touns - Sister ceeties 
Chişinău is twinned wi:
  Ankara in Turkey (syne 2001) 
  Eskişehir in Turkey
  Akhisar in Turkey
  Bucharest in Romanie
  Gdańsk in Poland
  Greensboro in Unitit States
  Grenoble in Fraunce  Iaşi in Romanie
  Kiev in Ukraine
  Kraków in Poland
  Mannheim in Germany
  Odessa in Ukraine
  Patras in Greece  Reggio Emilia in Italy
  Sacramento in Unitit States designatit bi Sister Cities International
  Tel Aviv in Israel (syne 2000) 
  Yerevan in Armenie (syne 2005) 
  Vilnius in Lithuanie

 References 


Category:Ceeties in Moldovae
Category:Caipitals in Europe
Category:Destricts o Moldovae
Category:1436 establishments
Category:Populatit places established in the 1430s
Category:Ceeties in Chişinău municipality