Telesti

Telesti is a commune in Gorj County, Oltenia, Romania, along with the villages Buduhala, Somanesti and Telesti . The contemporary territorial administrative shape - Telesti commune - is the result of administrative measures taken after 1950, the continuous growth of the number of inhabitants and the economic improvement. From the point of view of the age of the Telesti states, we can say that, consistent with a few records, Telesti village seems in a report from July 25, 1483, from Voda Calugaru, wherein Manea's entourage and others mastered.

In 1542, July 13, Radu Voda Paesie confirms to Dan Ceacai along with his sons and his sons Stanca master over the land components of Farcasesti and Telesti. Telesti are referred to in lots of files from the sec. XVII to XVIII, some talk of Telesti from above and Telesti from beneath. The village of Somanesti is stated in an act of 13 February 1599 concerning the Tismana Monastery, many of the witnesses is Draghici Postelnicu from Somanesti. Buduhala village is cited within the 1931 Citizenship Map of the Romanian Country, as being on the estate of Scarlat Caribatache, Ionita Balacescu and Dinca Balacescu, this time it had 52 families.