Ilișești

Ilișești

Ilișești

Commune in Suceava, Romania

For the river in Suceava County, see Ilișești (river).

Ilișești (German: Illischestie) is a commune located in Suceava County, Bukovina, northeastern Romania. It is composed of two villages, Brașca and Ilișești. The commune was called Ciprian Porumbescu (with Ilișești as its center) and included the villages of Bălăceana and Ciprian Porumbescu until 2004, when these were split off to form separate communes.

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Late modern period

During the 1780s, 12 ethnic-German families settled in Ilișești in the course of the Josephine colonization.[2] These ethnic Germans were part of the then-emerging Bukovina German community which formed in the historical region of Bukovina during the Habsburg period under Austria-Hungary.

Administration and local politics

Commune council

The commune's current local council has the following political composition, according to the results of the 2020 Romanian local elections:[3]

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  • The local school in Ilișești
  • Former Evangelical Lutheran church (now Orthodox)
  • Entrance to Ilișești monastery

References

  1. [1]
    "Populaţia rezidentă după grupa de vârstă, pe județe și municipii, orașe, comune, la 1 decembrie 2021" (XLS). National Institute of Statistics.
  2. [2]
    Welsch, Sophie A. (1986). "The Bukovina-Germans During the Habsburg Period: Settlement, Ethnic Interaction, Contributions" (PDF). Immigrants & Minorities. 5: 73–106. doi:10.1080/02619288.1986.9974623. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-09-05.
  3. [3]
    "Rezultatele finale ale alegerilor locale din 2020" (Json) (in Romanian). Autoritatea Electorală Permanentă. Retrieved 2020-11-02.
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