Broscăuţi is a commune

Communes of Romania

A commune is the lowest level of administrative subdivision in Romania. There are 2686 communes in Romania. The commune is the rural subdivision of a county .There is no clear restriction on the population of a commune, even though when a commune...

 in Botoşani County

Botosani County

Botoșani is a county of Romania, in Moldavia, with the capital city at Botoșani.-Demographics:In 2002, it had a population of 452,834 and the population density was 91/km2.*Romanians – – the highest percentage of Romanians in Romania...

, Romania

Romania

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. It is composed of two villages, Broscăuţi and Slobozia.

The commune had 3450 people at the 2002 census; of these, 99.9% were ethnic Romanians

Romanians

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 and 99.4% were Romanian Orthodox. The main occupation of its inhabitants is agriculture—growing plants like corn and potatoes, raising animals (cows, sheep, rabbits) and birds (ducks, chicken). Some of the people of Broscăuţi work in the factories in nearby Dorohoi

Dorohoi

Dorohoi is a city in the Botoşani County, Romania, on the right bank of the Jijia River, which broadens into a lake on the north.Dorohoi used to be a market for the timber and farm produce of the north Moldavian highlands; merchants from the neighboring states flocked to its great fair, held on...

, which provides them with some extra money. A significant part of the commune's youth has emigrated to countries such as Italy

Italy

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 and Spain

Spain

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 since the 1990s.

Notable natives

• Dimitrie Pompeiu
  Dimitrie Pompeiu
  -Biography:After studying in Dorohoi and Bucharest, he went to France, where he studied mathematics at the University of Paris . He obtained a Ph.D. degree in mathematics in 1905 with a thesis, On the continuity of complex variable functions, written under the direction of Henri Poincaré...
  
  (1873–1954), mathematician