Vaslui is a city and chief town of the Judeţ de Vaslui, in Romania.

History

The first mention of the city appears in 1435, when Élie de Moldavie ( Ilie ) becomes prince of Moldavie. In 1439 and 1440, the Tatars invade Moldavie and the city is burned. In 1475, the prince de Moldavie Etienne III Large the ( Ştefan ) gains his great victory against the Othoman with the battles of Podul Înalt.

There existed a rather great Jewish community with Vaslui, that the waves of pogroms, the Holocaust and the Communists eliminated.

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