Hârlău

Hârlău (also spelled Hîrlău, Template:IPA; Template:Langx; Template:Langx) is a town in Iași County, Western Moldavia, Romania. It was one of the princely court cities of Moldavia, in the 15th century. One village, Pârcovaci, is administered by the town.

Geography

The town is located in the northwestern part of Iași County, at a distance of Template:Cvt from Târgu Frumos and Template:Cvt from the county seat, Iași. It is situated close to the border with Botoșani County, Template:Cvt south of the city of Botoșani.

Hârlău lies on the banks of the Bahlui River. It is crossed by national road Template:Ill, which is part of European route E58. The Hârlău train station is the terminus of the CFR Line 607, which starts at the Iași railway station.

Population

The 2011 census counted 10,905 inhabitants, 93.85% Romanians and 6.06% Roma. At the 2021 census, the town had a population of 10,349; of those, 76.66% were Romanians and 8.49% Roma.<ref name="RPL2021">Template:Cite web</ref> A large Jewish community used to live in Hârlău.

Year	Number	% of Jews in the General Population
1803	784
1838	1,008
1859	1,389
1886	2,254	56.6
1899	2,718	59.9
1910	2,023
1930	2,032	22.3
1941	1,736	18.0
1942	1,300
1947	1,936
2002	11,268
2011	10,905
2021	10,349

Natives

• Lucian Boz (1908–2003), literary critic, essayist, novelist, poet, and translator
• Template:Ill (1869–1943), writer, journalist, and politician
• Mihail Davidoglu (1910–1987), playwright
• Template:Ill (born 1946), historian
• Template:Ill (1895–1976), jurist and politician
• Template:Ill (1894–1974), Catholic priest
• Petru Rareș (Template:Circa1483–1546), Prince of Moldavia
• Mordecai Sandberg (1897–1973), composer and physician

External links

• The General Archive of The History of The Jewish People. RM 160, 164.