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The village of Costuleni (3,069 inhabitants in 2014; 2,911 ha) is located on the
border with Romania, here river Prut, 20 km south-east of Ungheni (the district
capital) and 100 km west of Chișinău (the national capital). The Romanian town
of Costuleni is located across the border, 10 km south-west (and, seemingly, 100
km by road since there is no bridge crossing the river in the close
neighborhood!).
The flag and arms of Costuleni are prescribed by
Presidential Decree No. 1,445 issued on 30 January 2020 and published on 7
February 2020 in the Moldovan official gazette, No. 36-43, Article 29.
Article 1.
The coat of arms and flag of the village of Costuleni, as approved
by Decision No. 06/14 issued on 12 December 2019 by the Village Council, shall
be registered into the General Armorial of the Republic of Moldova.
Appendix 1. Coat of arms
Gules, a man and a woman with their hands raised,
clad in national costume argent, standing on a base argent charged with a bunch
of grapes leaved vert in chief a cross crosslet or. The shield surmounted by a
village crown.
Appendix 2. Flag
Square red flag with a white stripe in
base (1/4 of the flag's width) charged in the center with a man and a woman with
their hands raised, clad in national costume argent, standing on the base and
surmounted by a yellow cross crosslet.
https://www.legis.md/cautare/getResults?doc_id=120252&lang=ro (Romanian)
https://www.legis.md/cautare/getResults?doc_id=120252&lang=ru (Russian)
The symbols of Costuleni, elaborated by the historian Silviu Andrieș-Tabac
and the painters Iurie Caminschi and Alexei Colâbneac were approved by the
Village Council on 12 December 2019. The first step to the adoption of the
symbols was the approval of the proposals by Decision No. 85-V.01 issued on 9
August 2019, by the National Heraldry Commission. The initiative belongs to the
Costuleni-born historian Corneliu Prepeliță, who first completed the Heraldic
Questionnaire, then began another stage in establishing the components of the
coat of arms.
The pair of dancers with their hands raised symbolizes the
artistic tradition of the village, Sârba Costulenilor, a dance known throughout
Moldova, and also the tradition of open-air theater, well preserved and
represented in the village, as well as traditional folk bands and other artistic
customs.
The cross crosslet recalls that the feudal domain of Costuleni,
at least since 1605, belonged to the Church, its first owner being the
Metropolitan Church of Suceava. The document dated 12 November 1605 states that
beforehand Costuleni belonged to the Prince's domain, therefore the field gules
as the traditional color of the rulers. In the 1817 census, Costuleni estate was
listed among the possessions of the Metropolitan Church of Iași. In the
village's northern end of the village, on the bank of a large spring, monks
managed the Mitoc farm, which was merged into the village in 1861.
The
white base represents river Prut. The bunch of grapes recalls wine-growing as a
specificity of the village. During the Soviet period, vineyards were exploited
by the Costuleni sovkhoze factory.
https://unghiul.com/stema-si-drapelul-satului-costuleni/
Unghiul
unofficial portal, 21 February 2020
Ivan Sache, 10 September
2020
