Major industries include food and tobacco processing, the assembly of consumer and electrical goods, and the manufacture of building materials, machinery, plastics, rubber, and textiles.
as a monastery town, Chisinau was taken in the 16th cent.
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Bibliografia municipiului Chisinau (BMC) originally was planned to be the first issue in an annual series by the Chisinau (Moldava) Municipal Library (Biblioteca Municipala Bogdan Petriceicu Hasdeu).
Chisinau: enciclopedie (CE) aims to be a new history of the city, focusing on architecture and personalities.
Particularly interesting are the historic photographs or drawings of Chisinau's beautiful architecture from the 18th through the 20th-century.
