Salcea

Salcea is a metropolis in Suceava county, Moldova, Romania, including the component localities Mereni, Plopeni, Salcea and Varatec, and from the village of Prelipca. At the 2011 census, the locality had a populace of 9,0.5 inhabitants, being the tenth urban middle as the scale of the county. It was d a metropolis by Law 83, 2004, together with 7 different localities in Suceava county.

Although it turned into extended to the rank of metropolis, Salcea stays a predominantly rural locality, for the reason that widespread majority of the population offers with agriculture and the metropolis resembles the component with a rural agreement. The first documents that communicate about the metropolis of Salcea date from the seventeenth century. Subsequently, Salcea developed as a satellite town of Suceava municipality and had the fame of commune until 2003, whilst the residents of Salcea ruled, by way of referendum, for lifting the agreement to the rank of metropolis. The real transition to the repute of city locality befell in 2004.