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FALTICHENI (FalticenI)
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FALTICHENI (FalticenI), the capital of the department of Suceava, Rumania, situated on a small right-hand tributary of the Sereth, among the hills of north-west Moldavia, and 2 in. S.E. of the frontier of Bukovina. Pop. (1900) 9643, about hat being Jews. A branch railway runs for 15 m. to join the main line between Czernowitz in Bukovina, and Galata. The Suceava department (named after Suceava or Suciava, its former capital, now Suczawa in Bukowina) is densely forested; its considerable timber trade centres in Falticheni. For five weeks, from the 20th July onwards, Russians and Austro-Hungarians, as well as Rumans, attend the fair which is held at Falticheni, chiefly for the sale of horses, carriages and cattle.