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THE LEGEND OF THE STORKS
  

   After the fall of Constantinople in 1452, Moldova  had frequent, protracted battles against Turkish Moslem invaders. Most often the warriors fought in forests and around fortresses. In one of such invasion, the Turks besieged the Gorodesti fortress. 

  The Turkish Sultan’s army of well-trained and merciless janissaries surrounded the fortress, forbidding anyone to leave or to enter, intent on starving the defenders out.
   Nevertheless, the Moldovans refused to surrender and prepared to fight to the death

rather than sacrifice their wives and children to the barbarians.
   But soon they ran out of water and lost their vigor. Then, as if in response to a
prayer no one dared utter, a formation of snow-white storks appeared in the east, flying toward the fortress, and in their beaks they bore bunches of grapes, which they let fall inside the citadel.

   Revitalised by the grapes, an emboldened buy the miracle that brought them, the defenders the threw open the gates of Gorodesti and drove out the Turks.

Ancient History

(1359-1873)

Modern History

(1873-1991)

Modern History

(1991-Present)

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