| Summary: | The article presents some considerations on the evolution of human habitation in the area of Alcedar village, Șoldanesti district, during the late medieval and modern period. The research is based on written documents regarding the village and the church from Alcedar, as well as on the results of archeological investigations conducted on the hearth and estate of the village. Alcedar is a very old settlement, the first known document mentioning the village dates from 1616. Based on its analysis, it appears that the village had already a documentary past for more than a century, this fact being confirmed by the division made by the grandchildren of former masters of Alcedar. Some testimonies refer also to the social, ethnic and demographic realities of the village from this period of time. A certain interest is aroused by a fake act from the XIXth century, issued in the name of Ștefan cel Mare, where some toponyms of Alcedar are registered. First news about the existence of a wooden church in the village relates to the middle of XVIIIth century. After less than a century, another wooden place of worship was built, but this time on a stone foundation, being laid on the site of the old church. After this house of God began to ruin, the inhabitants of Alcedar built a stone church that was consecrated in 1885. In the summer of 2015, around this church, a rescue archeological survey was conducted. Thus, six Christian inhumation graves were discovered, some of them were partialy distroyed or digged up. In two of the graves there were found two silver Turkish coins dating from AbdulHamid I 1774-1789, based on them, the complexes may be dated to the late 18th century and early 19th century. The available archaeological and historical evidence donrsquo;t give an indisputable answer to the question ndash; where did Alcedar village have its first hearth? The rural settlement could have developed in the surroundings of the church, as the group of graves, belonging to the old cemetery of the village, was discovered in its ...
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