Ştefăneşti is a small town 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

Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeastern Europe, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian arch, bordering on the Black Sea...

. It administers four villages: Bădiuţi, Bobuleşti, Stânca and Ştefăneşti-Sat.

The painter Ştefan Luchian

Stefan Luchian

Ștefan Luchian or Lukian was a Romanian painter, famous for his landscapes and still life works.-Early life:He was born in Ștefănești, a village of Botoșani County, as the son of Major Dumitru Luchian and of Elena Chiriacescu. The Luchian family moved to Bucharest in 1873 and his mother desired...

 (1868–1916) was born here, as well as Vlad Onicescu, the father of the mathematician Octav Onicescu

Octav Onicescu

Octav Onicescu was a Romanian mathematician, member of the Romanian Academy, and founder of the Romanian school of probability theory and statistics.-Biography:...

 (1892–1983). The town is also the birthplace of the Shtefanesht Hasidic dynasty

Shtefanesht (Hasidic dynasty)

After the passing of Rabbi Yisroel Friedman of Ruzhin in 1851, his fourth son, Menachem Nuchem Friedman, born in 1823, settled in the town of Shtefanesht, Romania, and subsequently founded the Shtefanesht Hasidic dynasty. In 1869 he died and his only son, Avraham Mattisyahu succeeded him.Reb...

 and as such its name (שטעפנשט in Hebrew/Yiddish) is still known in present-day Israel

Israel

The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...

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Stânca is a border checkpoint to Moldova.

Demographics

According to the census from 2002

Demographics of Romania

This article is about the demographic features of the population of Romania, including population density, ethnicity, education level, health of the populace, economic status, religious affiliations and other aspects of the population....

 there was a total population of 5,628 people living in this town. Of this population, 94.84% are ethnic Romanians, 5.06% ethnic Rroma and 0.05% ethnic Lipovans

Lipovans

Lipovans or Lippovans are the Old Believers, mostly of Russian ethnic origin, who settled in the Moldavian Principality, in Dobruja and Eastern Muntenia...

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