Bicaz
Also known as Békás, Bekas
Bicaz () is a town in Neamț County, Western Moldavia, Romania situated in the eastern Carpathian Mountains near the confluence of the Bicaz and Bistrița Rivers and near Lake Bicaz, an artificial lake formed by the Bicaz Dam on the Bistrița. Bicaz used to be a border town until 1918. Six villages are administered by the town: Capșa, Dodeni, Izvoru Alb, Izvoru Muntelui, Potoci, and Secu.
Key facts
- Romanian subdivision.type
- town
- Romanian subdivision.county
- Neamț
- Romanian subdivision.image_shield
- ROU NT Bicaz CoA.jpg
- Romanian subdivision.image_skyline
- Ajuntament de Bicaz.jpg
- Romanian subdivision.image_caption
- Bicaz town hall
- Romanian subdivision.image_map
- Bicaz in the Neamț County.svg
- Romanian subdivision.map_caption
- Location in Neamț County
- Romanian subdivision.leader_name
- Iulian-Traian Matasă
- Romanian subdivision.leader_term
- 2024–2028
- Romanian subdivision.leader_party
- PNL
- Romanian subdivision.elevation
- 432
- Romanian subdivision.area_total
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Bicaz () is a town in Neamț County, Western Moldavia, Romania situated in the eastern Carpathian Mountains near the confluence of the Bicaz and Bistrița Rivers and near Lake Bicaz, an artificial lake formed by the Bicaz Dam on the Bistrița. Bicaz used to be a border town until 1918. Six villages are administered by the town: Capșa, Dodeni, Izvoru Alb, Izvoru Muntelui, Potoci, and Secu.
==Economy== Before the construction of the dam (1950–1960) the settlement was just a mountain village in Eastern Carpathians where the main economic activity was timber harvesting. By tradition, the tree trunks were linked together, forming a raft (pluta); a raftman () used to drive the raft on the Bistrița river downstream to wood processing facilities in Piatra Neamț.
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