Dorohoi

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Template:Infobox City in Romania| website=http://www.primaria.dorohoi.com/| }} Dorohoi is a city in the Botoşani County, Romania, on the right bank of the river Jijia, which broadens into a lake on the north.

Dorohoi used to be a market for the timber and farm produce of the north Moldavian highlands; merchants from the neighboring states flocked to its great fair, held on the June 12. The settlement is first mentioned in documents from 1408, where a treaty was signed between Moldavian voievode, Alexandru cel Bun, and Polish King, Ladislaus III. This suggests that the role of Dorohoi as a commercial center existed long before the founding of the Moldavian state.

Dorohoi used to be the capital of the Dorohoi county, but was degraded to a municipality when Romania lost Northern Bucovina to Soviet Union during World War II.

In the city there is a church built by Ştefan cel Mare.

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