Cacica

This article is about the town in Romania. For the Spanish term for female tribal chiefs in the Americas, see Cacique.

Cacica
—  Commune  —
Cacica
Coordinates: 47°38′N 25°54′E
Country	Romania
County	Suceava County
Population (2002)	4,425
Time zone	EET (UTC+2)
• Summer (DST)	EEST (UTC+3)

Roman Catholic chapel dedicated to Saint Barbara and located in a salt mine

A map of Suceava County in Southern Bukovina

Cacica (Polish: Kaczyka) is a commune located in Suceava County, Romania. 21.7% of its inhabitants are Poles, who began settling there at the turn of the 19th century.

Villages

The commune is composed of five villages: Cacica, Maidan, Pârteştii de Sus (the commune center), Runcu, Soloneţu Nou.

Soloneţu Nou

Soloneţu Nou (Polish: Nowy Sołoniec) is one of the Polish villages in Suceava County, Southern Bukovina in Romania. It was established in 1834 by 30 Polish families from the Sołoniec river valley. A Polish school was founded in the village in 1870. 523 people from the village were deported to Poland after 1945 and the school was closed. After the Romanian Revolution of 1989, the Polish school was reopened. In 1995 there were 718 inhabitants in the village.

The Polish community from Soloneţu Nou (together with those of Solca, Pleşa, Racova and Arbore) has 365 families with 1046 Roman Catholics of Polish ethnicity.

See also

• Polish minority in Romania

References

• (Romanian) Pr. Mihai Patraşcu, Vizită pastorală la Soloneţu Nou ("A pastoral visit to Soloneţu Nou"), on the site of the Roman Catholic Episcopate of Iaşi. Undated, but index places it as December 2005. Accessed 7 Jan 2006.

External links

• The Salt Mine from Cacica