| Briceni |
 | | Facts | | County | Briceni county | | Status | County capital | | Mayor | ?????? ???? (since {{{election}}}) | | Area | km² | | Population (at 2004) | 80,500 | | Dialing code | {{{DialingCode}}} | | Geographical coordinates | 48°22´ N 27°06´ E | | City Website | [? ] | Bricheni is a Romanian city. It is the capital of the Briceni raion which currently has a population of 80,000, making it the fifth largest raion in Moldova. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1029x1194, 66 KB)Briceni Map File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ...
Moldova is divided into 32 Rayons, or judeţe, 3 municipalities (Chişinău, Bălţi and Bender), one semi-autonomous, non-contiguous region (Gagauzia), and the breakaway region of Transnistria, the status of which is still disputed. ...
The town is also called: Berchan, Briceni, Briceni Sat, Briceni Târg, Bricheni, Bricheni Sat, Bricheni Târg, Britchan, Britchani, Britsiteni.
A second shtetl, around 30 miles (50 km) away to the east, is also known as Brichany or Briceni. Some sources appear to treat the two Brichany/Briceni shtetls as the same place. A shtetl or shtetele, Yiddish: , derived from German: , meaning little town/city) was typically a small town or village with a large Jewish population in pre-Holocaust Central and Eastern Europe. ...
- The first Brichany is at 48° 22´ north latitude and 27° 06´ east longitude, which put the shtetl 200 km northwest of Chişinău (also Chisenau, Cisenau, Kisheneff, Kishenev), the capital of Moldova.
- The second Brichany/Briceni is at 48° 22´ north latitude and 27° 42´ east longitude, which put that shtetl 108 miles (174 km) north northwest of Chişinău -- and on the northeasternmost border of Moldova.
| Timeline for Brichany | | 1817 | The town had 137 Jewish families. Another 47 had previously left when the village was partly destroyed by fire. | | 1847 | Jewish school opened. | | 1850 | Brichany had one of the largest Jewish communities of the region. | | 1885 | Jewish hospital founded. | | 1897 | There were 7,184 Jews in Brichany (96.5% of the total population) | | 1898 | The town had 7,303 Jews from a total population of 8,094. There were 972 Jewish artisans, most of whom were furriers who produced and exported up to 25,000 fur overcoats and caps per year. 25 families were dedicated to gardening and to producing tobacco. About 700 Jews were day laborers, earning 10-30 copecks per day. | | 1924 | 125 Jews were occupied in agriculture on 64 km² (approx. 1,600 acres) of land, most of it (5 km²) held on lease. | | 1930 | 5354 Jews (95.2% of the total population). There was a Hebrew Tarbut school. | | 1940 | Jewish population grew to about 10,000. | | June, 1940 | Brichany was annexed to the USSR. Most Jewish property and community buildings were confiscated. The only synagogue was saved because the Russians decided to use it as a granary. About 80 Jews, mostly community leaders, were exiled to Siberia. | | July 8, 1941 | German & Romanian troops passed through the town, murdering many Jews. Jews from the neighboring towns of Lipkany and Sekiryany were brought to Brichany. | | July 28, 1941 | All Jews were dispatched across the Dniester and several were shot en route. When they arrived in Mogilev, the Germans "selected" the old people and forced the younger ones to dig graves for them. From Mogilev the rest were turned back to Ataki and then on to Sekiryany. Hundreds died en route. For a month they stayed in the ghetto, only to be deported again to Transnistria. All the young Jews were murdered in the forest near Soroca. | | After 1945 | Only about 1000 Jews returned to Brichany at the end of the war. | Latitude, sometimes denoted by the Greek letter φ, gives the location of a place on Earth north or south of the Equator. ...
Map of Earth showing lines of longitude, which appear curved and vertical in this projection, but are actually halves of great circles Longitude, sometimes denoted by the Greek letter λ, describes the location of a place on Earth east or west of a north-south line called the Prime Meridian. ...
Chişinău. ...
Chişinău coat-of-arms Chişinău (IPA /ki. ...
1817 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ...
The word Jew ( Hebrew: יהודי) is used in a wide number of ways, but generally refers to a follower of the Jewish faith, a child of a Jewish mother, or someone of Jewish descent with a connection to Jewish culture or ethnicity and often a combination of these attributes. ...
1847 was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ...
1850 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ...
1885 is a common year starting on Thursday. ...
1897 was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ...
1898 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ...
1924 (MCMXXIV) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ...
1930 (MCMXXX) is a common year starting on Wednesday. ...
Hebrew is a Semitic language of the Afro-Asiatic language family spoken by more than 6 million people, mainly in Israel, the West Bank, the United States and by Jewish communities around the world. ...
Colegio JudÃo fundado en 1961 en la Ciudad de Olivos, Provincia de Buenos Aires, Argentina. ...
1940 (MCMXL) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ...
June is the sixth month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with a length of 30 days The month is named after the Roman goddess Juno, wife of Jupiter and equivalent to the Greek goddess Hera. ...
A synagogue or synagog (from Greek συναγωγή, transliterated sunagoge, place of assembly literally meeting, assembly) is a Jewish house of prayer and study. ...
A granary is a storehouse for threshed grain or animal feed. ...
Siberia Jim (Russian: , common English transliterations: Sibir’, Sibir; from the Tatar for “sleeping landâ€) is a vast region of Russia and northern Kazakhstan constituting almost all of northern Asia. ...
July 8 is the 189th day of the year (190th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 176 days remaining. ...
For the movie, see 1941 (film) 1941 (MCMXLI) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ...
Lipkany, Cloth & Linen Street Lipkany is a small town in Eastern Europe, located in the Bessarabia region (Ukrania-Moldova-Romania). ...
July 28 is the 209th day (210th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 156 days remaining. ...
Length 1350 km Elevation of the source - m Average discharge - m³/s Area watershed 62,000 km² Origin Ukraine Mouth Black Sea Basin countries Ukraine, Moldova The river Dniester (Polish: Dniestr, Ukrainian: ДніÑтер, Romanian: Nistru, Russian: ДнеÑÑ‚Ñ€, Latin: Tyras) is a river in Eastern Europe. ...
Mahilyow, or Mahileu (Belarusian: Магілёў; Russian: Могилёв (Mogilev), Polish Mohylew or Mogilew) is a city in the eastern Belarus, close to the border to Russia with about 300,000 inhabitants. ...
A ghetto is an area where people from a specific ethnic background or united in a given culture or religion live as a group, voluntarily or involuntarily, in milder or stricter seclusion. ...
Administrative map of Moldova with Transnistria highlighted in yellow Official languages Moldovan, Russian and Ukrainian Political status unrecognized Capital Tiraspol President Igor Smirnov Independence – Declared – Recognition From Moldova September 2, 1990 none Area 3,567 km² (2001 est. ...
Soroca is a city in the north of Moldova with a population in 2004 of 39,400. ...
1945 (MCMXLV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ...
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External links - Western Union in Brichany
- Moldtelecom in Briceni
- Pictures of Briceni
- Yellow pages for Briceni
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