Străşineţ

Străşineţ, or Storozhynets, lay in the wooded upper Siret valley at the Carpathian foothills. In 1337 the district included Siret, whose earlier fortress had been destroyed by the Mongols.

Siret became the first capital of independent Moldavia until Prince Petru moved the court to Suceava in 1388. Storozhynets, originally a loggers' settlement, was first mentioned in 1448. Nearby, Ștefan the Great founded Putna Monastery in 1466; it became his burial place. In 1775 the region passed with Bukovina to the Habsburg monarchy.