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Ungheni | |
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 Piața Independenței (Independence Square) | |
 Flag  Coat of arms | |
  Ungheni Location within Moldova | |
| Coordinates:47°13′N27°49′E / 47.217°N 27.817°E /47.217; 27.817 | |
| Country | Moldova |
| County | Ungheni District |
| First mentioned | 1462 |
| Area | |
• Total | 16.4 km2 (6.3 sq mi) |
| Population | |
• Total | 30,804 |
| • Density | 1,900/km2 (4,900/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+2 (EET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+3 (EEST) |
| Website | http://ungheni.md/ |
Ungheni (Romanian pronunciation:[uŋˈɡenʲ]ⓘ) is a municipality[2] inMoldova. With a population of 35,157, it is the seventh largest town in Moldova and the seat ofUngheni District.
There is a bridge across the Prut and aborder checkpoint to Romania. There is another border town with the same name in Romania (Ungheni, Iași), on the other side of thePrut River.
The first historical mention of Ungheni dates to 20 August 1462. A railway between Ungheni andChișinău was built in 1875 byRussia in preparation for theRusso-Turkish War of 1877–1878. In the interwar period, the town formed part ofRomania. DuringWorld War II, it wasoccupied by the Soviet Union from 1940, then recaptured by Romania in 1941, and then re-occupied by the Soviet Union in 1944, within which it formed part of theMoldavian SSR. After the war, the rail route through Ungheni became the main connection between the USSR andRomania.
In 1876, after the spring flooding of the riverPrut, the railway bridge that linkedMoldova andRomania was almost destroyed.The Railways Department invitedGustave Eiffel toBessarabia (Moldova) to redesign and rebuild the bridge.Today, it remains a strategic structure under the supervision of border guards.
Th EU proposed in 2023 to lay a new rail 1435mm standard gauge line from Ungheni to Chisinau, alongside the existing 1520mm track, to avoid disruption to existing services.[3]
According to the2014 census, the population of Ungheni amounted to 30,804 inhabitants (making it the sixth largest city in Moldova), a decrease compared to the previous census in 2004, when 32,530 inhabitants were registered. Of these, 14,647 were men and 16,157 were women.[4]
Footnotes:
*There is anongoing controversy regarding the ethnic identification of Moldovans and Romanians.
*Moldovan language is one of the two local names for theRomanian language in Moldova. In 2013, theConstitutional Court of Moldova interpreted that Article 13 of the constitution is superseded by the Declaration of Independence,[7] thus giving official status to the nameRomanian.[8][9]
| Year | Pop. | ±% |
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| 1959 | 11,129 | — |
| 1970 | 17,228 | +54.8% |
| 1979 | 25,792 | +49.7% |
| 1989 | 37,788 | +46.5% |
| 2004 | 32,530 | −13.9% |
| 2014 | 30,804 | −5.3% |
Ungheni istwinned with:
Auce, Latvia
Dmitrovsk, Russia
Konin, Poland
Reghin, Romania
Vasylkiv, Ukraine
Winston-Salem, United States[10][11]Mankato, United States
Cascais, Portugal
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124. ... Prin urmare, Curtea consideră că prevederea conținută în Declarația de Independență referitoare la limba română ca limbă de stat a Republicii Moldova prevalează asupra prevederii referitoare la limba moldovenească conținute în articolul 13 al Constituției.[124. ... Therefore, the Court considers that the provision contained in the Declaration of Independence regarding the Romanian language as the state language of the Republic of Moldova prevails over the provision regarding the Moldovan language contained in Article 13 of the Constitution.]
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