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Ia\u0219i (also historically referred to as Jassy or Iassy) is one of the largest cities and a municipality in Romania. Located in the historical Moldavia region, Ia\u0219i has traditionally been one of the leading centres of Romanian social, cultural, academic and artistic life. The city was the capital of the Principality of Moldavia from 1564 to 1859, then of the United Principalities from 1859 to 1862, and the capital of Romania from 1916 to 1918. Major events in the political and cultural history of Moldavia are connected with the name of the city of Ia\u0219i. The great scholars of the 17th century Grigore Ureche, Miron Costin and later Ion Neculce, wrote most of their works in the city or not far from it and the famous scholar Dimitrie Cantemir known throughout all Europe also linked his name to the capital of Moldavia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The first institute of higher learning that functioned on the territory of Romania was Academia Vasilian\u0103 (1640) founded by Prince Vasile Lupu as a “higher school for Latin and Slavonic languages”, followed by the Princely Academy in 1707. The first high education structure in Romanian language was established in the autumn of 1813, when engineer Gheorghe Asachi laid the foundations of a class of engineers, its activities taking place within the Greek Princely Academy. After 1813, other moments marked the development of higher education in Romanian language, regarding both humanities and the technical science. In 1835, Academia Mih\u0103ilean\u0103 founded by Prince Mihail Sturdza is considered first Romanian superior institute in the country. In 1860, three faculties part of the Academia Mih\u0103ilean\u0103 formed the nucleus for the newly-established University of Ia\u0219i, the first Romanian university. The Physicians and Naturalists Society, founded in Ia\u0219i, has existed since the early part of the 19th century, and a number of periodicals are published. One of the oldest medical universities in Romania, founded in 1879, is in Ia\u0219i. It is now known as the Grigore T. Popa University of Medicine and Pharmacy. In 1937, the two applied science sections of the University of Ia\u0219i became departments of the newly created Gheorghe Asachi Polytechnic School. In the period before and after World War II, the later (renamed Polytechnic Institute in 1948) extended its domain of activity, especially in the field of engineering, and became adopted a Technical University in 1993. The Central University Library of Ia\u0219i, where the chief records of Romanian history are preserved, is the oldest and the second largest in Romania.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The first newspaper in Romanian language was published in 1829 in Ia\u0219i and it is in Ia\u0219i where, in 1867, appeared under literary society Junimea, the Convorbiri literare review in which Ion Creang\u0103\u2019s Childhood Memories and the best poems by Mihai Eminescu were published. The reviews Contemporanul and Via\u021ba Rom\u00e2neasc\u0103 appeared in 1871, respectively in 1906 with great contributions to promoting Romanian national cultural values.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Many great personalities of Romanian culture are connected to Ia\u0219i: the chronicler Nicolae Milescu, the historians and politics men Mihail Kog\u0103lniceanu or Simion B\u0103rnu\u021biu, the poets Vasile Alecsandri or George Top\u00e2rceanu, the writers Mihail Sadoveanu, Alecu Russo, or Ionel Teodoreanu, the literary critic Titu Maiorescu, the historian A.D. Xenopol, the philosophers Vasile Conta or Petre Andrei, the sociologist Dimitrie Gusti, the geographer Emil Racovi\u021b\u0103, the painter Octav B\u0103ncil\u0103, only to name a few.<\/p>\n\n\n

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With historical monuments, 500-year-old churches and monasteries, contemporary architecture, many of them listed on the National Register of Historic Monuments, Ia\u0219i is an outstanding educational center. Pieces of architecture include the Trei Ierarhi Monastery, part of the tentative list of UNESCO World Heritage Site, or the neo-Gothic Palace of Culture, built on the old ruins of the mediaeval Princely Court of Moldavia. During World War II and the Communist regime many historical buildings in the old city center (around Union Square area) were destroyed or demolished, and replaced by International style buildings and also a new mainly Mid-Century modern style Civic Centre was built around the Old Market Square (The Central Hall). Other buildings include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n