FETEȘTI - HISTORY OF THE VILLAGE
The village of Fetești is one of the oldest villages in Edinet district. According to documents it appears at the end of the 15th - beginning of the 16th century. This territory was populated since the time of Stephen the Great.
The old name of the village is Hrițeni and only towards the end of the 18th - beginning of the 19th century the name Fetești appears.
By a gramophone of Petru Voda of July 3rd 1975 the village of Hrițeni with a mill is strengthened by Odochiei, daughter of Luca Arbore, porter of Suceava. So previously the village belonged to Luca Arbore, former hatman, beheaded in 1523 by Stefan the Younger.
The village of Hrițeni appears in various documents and gramota from the 17th century (1606, 1621, 1635). Then the village of Hrițeni appears in the census of 1772-1774. According to these data there were 40 inhabited and 5 deserted houses in the village, 45 men and a priest.
In this period appear families: Gribință, Movilă, Furtună, Ursul, Ocrain, Roșca, Budeanu, Traistă, Baltă, Leurdă, and in another part are indicated the professions, e.g.: Petre morar, Istrate pâslar, Gigoraș cojocar, Simion ciubotar and so on.
In sec. In the 19th century the village belonged to Gavril Stroici Scordeli, to the merchant Șimon Caufman, as well as to some peasants.
In 1904 it was recorded as "the old Romanian village of the Rhaetians". It has 280 houses, 1872 souls, church".
In the first decade of the cent. In the first decade of the 20th century, a 4-year school was opened. On average, the number of pupils reached 40 annually. Lessons were held by the village priest Gheorghe Balabanov, then by Pavel Barbos and teacher Popovici.
By 1942 Fetești was the centre of the commune of 2 villages: Fetești and Gordinești. The ethnic population of the commune is 4656 Romanians, 335 Ukrainians, 27 Russians, 6 Poles, 5 Germans. In the commune there are 2 churches, 3 primary schools and a Cultural Centre.
The Ministry of Agriculture and Domains has set up in the commune of Fetești a warehouse of pedigree stallions, which are used for cross-breeding and enrichment of the local breed. A total of 616 horses, 1095 horned cattle, 3461 sheep and 1389 pigs were kept in the commune. From the agricultural inventory we mention just a few figures: ploughs - 376, harrows - 343, sowing machines - 12, cultivators - 44, tiller - 9, agricultural tractors - 10, etc.
These were the basic indicators with which Fetești entered a new period: war, famine, deportations, collectivisation, socialism.

TOURIST ATTRACTIONS
1. Fetești Gorge - "Little Switzerland".
2. Fetești Gorge.
3. The violin factory..

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