Valea Adîncă
Commune in Transnistria, Moldova / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For the village of Valea Adâncă in Iași County, Romania, see Miroslava, Iași.
Valea Adîncă (Moldovan Cyrillic: Валя Адынкэ; Russian: Валя-Адынка, romanized: Valya-Adynka; Ukrainian: Валя-Адинке, romanized: Valya-Adynke, Волядинка, Volyadynka; Polish: Waładynka) is a commune in Camenca District, in the northern part of Transnistria, Moldova. The name in Romanian means "deep valley". It is composed of two villages, Constantinovca and Valea Adîncă.[1]
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Valea Adîncă
Валя Адынкэ | |
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Coordinates: 48°0′23″N 28°50′35″E | |
Country (de jure) | Moldova |
Country (de facto) | Transnistria[lower-alpha 1] |
Elevation | 85 m (279 ft) |
Population (1979) | 2,200 |
Time zone | UTC+2 (EET) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC+3 (EEST) |
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Nobel Prize laureate Henryk Sienkiewicz situated the Devil's Gorge where the witch Horpyna, a well-known fictional character from the novel With Fire and Sword, lived in this vicinity along the Dniester river. It was rendered under the Polish spelling of Waładynka.
Valea Adîncă is also the site of the Church of the Blessed Virgin's Protection, a Russian Orthodox church.