Piatra, a town of Moldavia, 60 miles W. by S. of Jassy, romantically situated on the Bistritza, at the (eastern) foot of the Carpathians, has a trade in timber and a pop. of 13,890.
Piatra
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 8: Peasant to Eoumelia, p. 165
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