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COBANI - HISTORY OF THE VILLAGE

Officially, the village of Cobani is considered to have been founded in 1702, but it should be mentioned that the inhabitants who founded it moved here from another village, Zubreuți, later renamed Vasileuții de Jos. At the first documentary attestation, 03 June 1374, the village was called Zubreuți. In 1473, under the reign of Stephen the Great, we find it in documents with the name of Vasileuți. In another act issued by Eremia Movilă on 24 May 1602, the village was called Vasileuții pe Prut. In the same act it is mentioned that, in May 1600, column IV of Michael the Brave's army, formed by Baba Novac's outlaws, had set up camp near Vasileuții pe Prut, not far from the fair Ștefănești. After the triumphal entry of Michael the Brave in Iasi and his declaration as Lord of the Romanian, Transylvanian and Moldavian Lands and the flight of Eremia Movila with the Polish army to Hotin, the fourth column, led by Baba Novac, set off in pursuit of the enemy. One of the trade roads connecting Iasi with Hotin passed near the village of Vasileuții on the Prut. The locals called this road the Hotin's road. Near the village, the Prut was crossed through Vadul Scruntari, which means "rattled place". Here the banks of the river are more domed and seem to show the crossing place. Crossing the river through the ford, Baba Novac decides, after a long and forced march, to stop for a rest and regroup the army. For this, he chooses a field near the village of Vasileuti, as the field is dominated by two high mounds from which the surroundings can be surveyed for miles around. The western side of the field is bordered by bridges on the Prut river bank. On the border between the forest and the field are the "La fontal" springs with a high flow of water, which in turn feed a lake, once large and rich in fish. The eastern part of the field is bordered by the tributary of the Prut, the Camenca stream, where horses used to water and graze on the nearby meadows. The column led by Baba Novac was a cavalry corps. It is for these reasons that this field was chosen, which bears his name to this day.
Due to the floods caused by the repeated overflows of the Prut River, a large part of the inhabitants of the village moved to the present site of Cobani village. The relocation was due to the fact that the old village was located too close to the Prut and was constantly flooded when the Prut was overflowing its bed. As a result, the villagers founded a new village 2 km away from the Prut river bank, on the right bank of the Camenca river, at the foot of the toltre cliff, which was called Stânca Mare. Until the middle of the 19th century the village was also called Cubani. One of the most credible legends about the village explains why it is called Cubani. It is said that the ancestors of today's inhabitants lived in the village of Vasileuți on the banks of the Prut. And in order to cross the Prut, people had to pay money to the luntras. These Vasileuți began to be called Vasileuți with money. With the name Cubani the village passed through history until 1974, when the Soviet authorities by government decision for unclear reasons changed the name to Cobani. Documents, which would substantiate this government decision, were found neither in the national nor in the party archives.

TOURIST ATTRACTIONS
1. Big Rock.
2. Hundred Mounds Nature Monument.
3. Lake La Fontal.
4. Museum of History and Ethnography.
5. Wooden church of St. Archangel Michael and Gabriel.
6. Michael the Brave Monument.
7. Melnic family art gallery.

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The project "The ecotourism route of the Prut Cliffs in Edinet, Riscani and Glodeni rayons" is co-financed within the framework of the Polish Development Cooperation Programme of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland.