Adjud

Adjud is a metropolis in Vrancea County, Moldavia, Romania. It has a population of 14,670 population 2011. It lies at a railway junction which has a class backyard and a passenger station. Adjud, situated north of the point where the Trotus River enters the Siret River, used to be a marketplace. The metropolis administers three villages: Adjudu Vechi, Burcioaia and Siscani. In the northern a part of the city a settlement from the Bronze Age turned into determined which dates kind of to the second millennium BC and belongs to Monteoru subculture. Geto-Dacian vestiges of fifth century BC were additionally discovered here.

The first mention of the town is made by its Hungarian call Egyedhalma “in oppido nostro Egydhalm” that means "in our city Gilles’ Hill" in a Latin language file from 1433 wherein Ilias of Moldavia granted industrial privileges to Transylvanian Saxon merchants. The Romanian name derives from the Hungarian one. The original name supports the concept that the town changed into mounted via Hungarian Csángós settled in Moldavia as a part of a systematic Hungarian imperial policy to settle Hungarian and partly German populace in locations of strategic economic, industrial and military significance with the project to manipulate and protect the jap frontier of Hungary. It changed into d a metropolis in 1948.