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The Metropolitan Cathedral, Iași (Romanian: Catedrala Mitropolitană din Iași), located at 16 Ștefan cel Mare și Sfânt Boulevard, Iași, Romania, is the seat of the Romanian Orthodox Archbishop of Iași and Metropolitan of Moldavia and Bukovina, and the largest historic Orthodox church in Romania. [1]
Iași (UK: / ˈ j æ ʃ j / YASH-(y), [6] US: / ˈ j ɑː ʃ (i)/ YAHSH(-ee), [7] [8] Romanian: ⓘ; also known by other alternative names), also referred to mostly historically as Jassy [9] [10] (UK: / ˈ j æ s i / YASS-ee, [11] US: / ˈ j ɑː s i / YAH-see [8] [12]), is the third largest city in Romania and the seat of Iași County.
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1408 – Iași first mentioned in a document. [1]1513 – Town "burned by the Tatars." [2]1538 – Town sacked by Turks. [2]1541 – Dancu Monastery founded.
The Tsakonian language, still spoken on the coast of modern Arcadia (but in the Classical period considered the southern Argolid coast immediately adjoining Arcadia), is a descendant of Doric Greek, and as such is an exceptional example of a surviving regional dialect of archaic Greek.
It was established in 1818 as the Apostolic Vicariate of Moldavia (a pre-diocesan missionary jurisdiction; exempt, i.e. directly subject to the Holy See, not part of an ecclesiastical province, but entitled to a titular bishop), on territory split off from the suppressed Diocese of Bacău, which had originally been set up at Siret by Pope Urban V in 1370, due to work done by Franciscans and ...
Arcadia (Greek: Ἀρκαδία, romanized: Arkadía) is a region in the central Peloponnese. It takes its name from the mythological character Arcas , and in Greek mythology it was the home of the gods Hermes and Pan .