Information about the town- Hârlău

Hârlău is a town in Iaşi County, Moldavia, Romania. As of 2004 the estimated population is 11,271. It was the capital city of Moldova in the 15th century.

In the center of the town there are the ruins of the Musatini Princely Court. It was the Stefan ce Mare's favourite residence and later Mihnea Voda moved there the capital of Moldova (the 2nd of October 1624). Since 1985, the House of the chancellor Tautu's descendants has been sheltering the History and Etnographic Museum. Around Hirlau anybody can admire the geto-dacian fortress from Catalina-Cotnari, that has been lasting since IV-III centuries B.C., the ruins of Latin School from Cotnari, those of the Castle from Ceplenita belonging to the chronicler Grigore Ureche and the small convents from Deleni .

Year	Number	% of Jews in the General Population
1803	784
1838	1,008
1859	1,389
1886	2,254	56.6
1899	2,718	59.9
1910	2,023
1930	2,032	22.3
1941	1,736	18.0
1942	1,300
1947	1,936
2004	11,271

Hârlău's official website:
http://www.primaria-hirlau.ro/index.html