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The Central University Library of Iași, where the chief records of Romanian history are preserved, is the oldest and the second largest in Romania. As of 2016, Iași has 74 public schools, coordinated by the Iași County School Inspectorate. The city is also home to 19 private schools. [85] Notable high schools: Iași National College (1828)
1859 – City becomes seat of the Romanian United Principalities. 1860 University of Iași founded. Music and Declamation School and School for Sculpture and Painting founded. 1861 – Seat of Romanian government relocated from Iași to Bucharest. [2] 1864 – Central State Library of Iași in operation. [4] 1870 – Iași railway station opens.
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The Alexandru Ioan Cuza University (Romanian: Universitatea "Alexandru Ioan Cuza"; acronym: UAIC) is a public university located in Iași, Romania.Founded by an 1860 decree of Prince Alexandru Ioan Cuza, under whom the former Academia Mihăileană was converted to a university, the University of Iași, as it was named at first, is one of the oldest universities of Romania, and one of its ...
The old building of the National Theatre, 1846. The first dramatic play presented in the Romanian language (and one of the first theatrical performance in Romanian [3]) was Mirtil and Hloe, [4] adapted and staged by Gheorghe Asachi, and held in the capital (Jassy/Iași) of Moldavia, on 27 December 1816. [5]
The history of the Jews in Iași dates back to the late 16th century, when Sephardi Jews first arrived in the city. Iași has been the center of Jewish life in Moldavia for centuries. Once home to a thriving Yiddish culture, the first Yiddish theater in the world was founded in the city.
In the death train that left Iași for Călărași, southern Romania, which carried perhaps as many as 5,000 Jews, only 1,011 reached their destination alive after seven days. (The Romanian police counted 1,258 bodies, yet hundreds of dead were thrown out of the train on the way at Mircești, Roman, Săbăoani, and Inotești.)
The Romanian parliament was in session and Drozdovskii aimed his cannons at the parliament building; he threatened to fire at the first hostile action. It was not necessary. Under pressure, the Romanians even gave trains to transport the troublesome army to Kishinev in order to get rid of them as soon as possible. The small army moved quickly ...