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The Siret or Sireth ( Ukrainian : Сірет or Серет , Romanian : Siret pronounced [siˈret] , Hungarian : Szeret , Russian : Сирет ) is a river that rises from the Carpathians in the Northern Bukovina region of Ukraine , and flows southward into Romania before it joins the Danube . It is 647 km (402 mi) long, of which a 559 km (347 mi) section is in Romania, and its basin area is 44,811 km (17,302 sq mi), of which 42,890 km (16,560 sq mi) in Romania. Its average discharge is 250 m/s (8,800 cu ft/s). In ancient times, it was named Hierasus ( Ancient Greek Ιερασός).

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16-1441: The following towns and villages are situated along the river Siret, from source to mouth: Berehomet , Storozhynets , Siret , Grămești , Zvoriștea , Liteni , Dolhasca , Pașcani , Stolniceni-Prăjescu , Roman , Bacău , Adjud , Mărășești , and Galați . The following rivers are tributaries to the river Siret (from source to mouth): Left: Bahna (Mihăileni), Molnița , Bahna (Lozna), Gârla Sirețel, Gârla Huțanilor, Vorona , Pleșul, Turbata, Pietrosul, Sirețel , Stolniceni , Hărmănești, Pârâul Țigăncilor , Mihăili, Boca , Albuia , Rediu, Vulpășești, Pârâul Pietros, Țiganca, Icușești, Glodeni, Râpaș, Moara , Bogdănești, Valea Morii, Ulm, Racova, Tamași, Răcătău , Soci , Fulgeriș, Rogoza, Polocin , Lupa, Bârlad , Călmățui , Geru , Bârlădel , Rusca, Mălina and Cătușa . Right: Malyi Seret , Găvan, Negostina , Pârâul Mare, Verehia, Baranca, Leahu, Stâncuța, Hănțești, Grigorești, Sălăgeni, Suceava , Șomuzul Mic , Șomuzul Mare , Pârâul lui Pulpa, Trestioara, Conțeasca , Ruja , Sodomeni, Valea Părului, Podul Turcului (Draga), Moldova , Valea Neagră , Turbata, Precista, Bistrița , Bahna, Valea Mare, Cleja (or Tocila), Răcăciuni , Drăgușeni, Scurta, Bolohan, Fântânele, Conțești, Trotuș , Valea Boului, Carecna, Câmpul, Zăbrăuț , Șușița , Gârla Morilor, Putna Seacă, Putna , Leica , Râmnicul Sărat and Buzău . During July 2010, Gheorghe Flutur , president of Suceava County , told

32-841: A city district of a city of federal subject significance . This kind of administrative division is equal in status to the towns of district significance and selsoviets , and is normally centered on an inhabited locality with urban-type settlement status. As of 2013, the following types of such entities are recognized: As of January 1, 2018, there were 57 urban-type settlements in Tajikistan . As of February 1, 2016, there were 76 urban-type settlements in Turkmenistan . As of January 1, 2011, 1,065 settlements have urban-type settlement status in Uzbekistan . Urban-type settlements existed in Armenia until

48-410: A recreational potential with population of at least 2,000. In exceptional cases, administrative, economic and cultural centers with a potential of economical development and population growth can be classified as urban-type settlements. In modern Russia , the task of deciding whether an inhabited locality meets the criteria of urban-type settlements is delegated to the federal subjects . In most cases,

64-612: A state housing provided to no less than 2,000 inhabitants. The term was introduced in Ukraine in 1920s and became official since the resolution of the Central Executive Committee of Ukraine of October 28, 1925 replacing all towns (mistechko) as urban-type settlement. As of 2011, there were 256 urban-type settlements in Azerbaijan . According to a 1998 law of Belarus , there are three categories of urban-type settlement in

80-587: Is also used in Transnistria , an unrecognised breakaway state in Moldova. What counts as an urban-type settlement differs between time periods and countries and often between different divisions of a single country. However, the criteria generally focus on the presence of urban infrastructure or resort facilities for urban residents. In the Soviet Union , the criteria of urban-type settlements were set independently by

96-567: Is an official designation for lesser urbanized settlements, used in several Central and Eastern European countries. The term was primarily used in the Soviet Union and later also for a short time in socialist Bulgaria and socialist Poland . It remains in use today in nine of the post-Soviet states . The designation was used in all 15 member republics of the Soviet Union from 1922. It was introduced later in Poland (1954) and Bulgaria (1964). All

112-507: The Mediafax news agency his region was one of the worst hit in the country on the morning of the 29th, as he coordinated local flood relief work in his stricken county. Later that day, the Siret river threatened to break through the dykes protecting the town of Șendreni , as locals and emergency services reinforced the dykes with truckloads of sandbags to prevent the river breaking out and flooding

128-618: The Polish People's Republic from 1954 to 1972. Nowadays, Poland has cities, villages and settlements. Ukraine formerly used the urban-type settlement ( Ukrainian : селище міського типу, с.м.т.) system until 2023. In 1991 there were 921 urban-type settlements in Ukraine. On 24 October 2023 President Volodymyr Zelenskyy signed Law No. 8263 that abolished the concepts of "urban-type settlement" and " rural-type settlement " in Ukraine . The law came into an effect on January 26, 2024. The law

144-590: The 1990s. Currently, all of them have been converted into cities or villages. In Estonia, the urban-type settlements were created in 1945 during the Estonian SSR . In the 1990s most of them were transformed into cities. The urban-type settlements existed in Latvia from 1949 to 1993, when they were converted into cities and rural settlements. Lithuania formerly used the urban-type settlement ( Lithuanian : miesto tipo gyvenvietė , m.t.g. ) system until 1995. In Bulgaria,

160-1022: The Soviet republics. Those criteria, however, only differed very slightly from one republic to another. In the Russian SFSR , urban-type settlements were subdivided into three types: In 1981, the Presidium of the Verkhovna Rada of the Ukrainian SSR defined an urban-type settlement as follows: "To the category of an urban-type settlement may be included any settlement located near industrial enterprises, buildings, railroad connections, hydro-technical constructions, and enterprises in production and refining of agrarian products as well as settlements that include higher or middle occupation educational establishments, science-researching institutions, sanatoria , and other stationary treatment and recreation establishments that have

176-757: The country: As of 2014, there were 47 urban-type settlements in Georgia . Eight of them are located on the territory of the partially recognized states of Abkhazia and South Ossetia and are de facto not under the control of the Georgian government. As of 2019, there were 48 urban-type settlements in Kazakhstan . In accordance with the 2008 Law on Administrative and Territorial Subdivision of Kyrgyzstan , urban-type settlements are those that comprise economically significant facilities such as industrial plants, railway stations, construction sites, etc., as well as settlements with

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192-430: The federal subject's legislative body is responsible for all administrative and territorial changes, including granting and revoking of the urban-type settlement and town status. Apart from being used to refer to a type of inhabited locality , the term "urban-type settlement" and its variations is also used to refer to a division of an administrative district , and sometimes to a division administratively subordinated to

208-463: The first urban-type settlements ( Bulgarian : селище от градски тип) were formed in 1964. In the 1990s they were transformed into villages and cities. The urban-type settlement system was used on the territory of Moldova since 1924. In the 1990s they were converted either into cities or rural settlements. The disputed and unrecognized Transnistria continues to use this system. The urban-type settlements ( Polish : osiedle typu miejskiego ) were used in

224-519: The town. Berehomet Berehomet ( Ukrainian : Берегомет ; Romanian : Bеrhomet pe Siret ; German : Berhometh ) is a rural settlement in Vyzhnytsia Raion , Chernivtsi Oblast , western Ukraine . It hosts the administration of Berehomet settlement hromada , one of the hromadas of Ukraine. The settlement lies on the Siret River . As of the 2001 census , the settlement's population

240-542: The urban-type settlements in Poland were transformed into other types of settlement (town or village) in 1972. In Bulgaria and five of the post-Soviet republics ( Armenia , Moldova , and the three Baltic states ), they were changed in the early 1990s, while Ukraine followed suit in 2023. Today, this term is still used in the other nine post-Soviet republics – Azerbaijan , Belarus , Georgia , Kazakhstan , Kyrgyzstan , Russia , Tajikistan , Turkmenistan , Uzbekistan . It

256-449: Was 8,513. Population: 7,514 (2022 estimate). One village is administered by the settlement, Zarichchia ( Заріччя ). The first mention of the village was in 1696. Starting in 1963, Berehomet was designated an urban-type settlement . This status lasted until 26 January 2024, when a new law entered into force which abolished this status, and Berehomet became a rural settlement. Urban-type settlement Urban-type settlement

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