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{{Infobox Romanian subdivision
|type                   = commune
|county                 = Galați
|population_total       = auto
|map_caption            = Location in Galați County
|image_map              = Liesti jud Galati.png
|image_skyline          = Biserica Sf Nicolae Liesti.jpg
|image_caption          = St Nicholas Church, Liești
|leader_name            = Iulian Boț<ref>{{cite web |url=https://prezenta.roaep.ro/locale27092020/romania-pv-final |title=Results of the 2020 local elections |publisher=Central Electoral Bureau |access-date=8 June 2021 |df=dmy-all}}</ref>
|leader_party           = PNL
|term                   = 2020&ndash;2024
|area_total_km2         = 89.12
|coordinates            = {{coord|45|37|9.5|N|27|32|29.6|E|region:RO|display=inline,title}}|
|website                = {{url|www.primaria-liesti.ro}}
}}
'''Liești''' is the third-largest commune of [[Galați County]], [[Western Moldavia]], [[Romania]] on the confluence of the [[Siret River|Siret]] and [[Bârlad River|Bârlad]] rivers, very close to [[Tecuci]] (28&nbsp;km) and [[Galați]] (52&nbsp;km). It is composed of two villages, Liești and Șerbănești. The latter is the southernmost part of the commune.

==Name==
The name of the commune appears to be derived from ''Ilie'', which means ''Elijah'', probably a local, which seems to be the brother of Șerban, the father of Șerbănești.

==History==
The first mention of the village dates from 1448, when in the prince of [[Principality of Moldavia|Moldavia]], [[Petru II of Moldavia|Petru II]], who gives as a gift to the local nobleman Cernat Ploscarul and to his brother, Ștefu, 40 villages and fields among which appear Liești and Șerbănești.

==Natives==
* [[Antonel Borșan]] (born 1970), sprint canoer
* [[Anghel Saligny]] (1854–1925), engineer who designed the [[Anghel Saligny Bridge]] (1895) over the Danube, the longest bridge in Europe at the time

==Tourist sights==
Liești has several [[Romanian Orthodox Church|Romanian Orthodox]] [[church (building)|churches]] – St. Parascheva (c. 1886), Dormition of the Virgin (1889), and St. Nicholas (built after 1990)- the seat of the Protopopiate (archpriest's district) of Nicorești. Other attractions include the [[acacia]] forests near the village (especially in May) and the picturesque valleys of the rivers Siret and Bârlad.

==Education==
Lieşti has four schools: one which teaches until the tenth grade, and three that teach until the eighth grade. Liești also has four kindergartens and a 14,000-volume public library.

==Economy==
The village has a sugar factory (Lemarco Bucharest), but the majority of the population works in local agriculture or in [[siderurgy]] at the Siderurgical Combinate Mittal Steel from Galați.
Beginning around 2000, many people from the region have gone to work in Italy or Spain, where wages are higher.

==Climate==
The climate of Liești is [[Humid continental climate|Humid continental]] (Dfb):

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| Jan high C  = 1.1
| Feb high C  = 3.1
| Mar high C  = 9.2
| Apr high C  = 16.8
| May high C  = 22.5
| Jun high C  = 26.0
| Jul high C  = 27.9
| Aug high C  = 27.5
| Sep high C  = 23.6
| Oct high C  = 17.0
| Nov high C  = 9.4
| Dec high C  = 3.5
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| Jan mean C  = -2.2
| Feb mean C  = -0.3
| Mar mean C  = 4.6
| Apr mean C  = 11.2
| May mean C  = 16.7
| Jun mean C  = 20.2
| Jul mean C  = 21.9
| Aug mean C  = 21.4
| Sep mean C  = 17.6
| Oct mean C  = 11.6
| Nov mean C  = 5.5
| Dec mean C  = 0.5
| year mean C =
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| Jan low C  = -5.5
| Feb low C  = -3.7
| Mar low C  = 0.1
| Apr low C  = 5.7
| May low C  = 11.0
| Jun low C  = 14.4
| Jul low C  = 16.0
| Aug low C  = 15.4
| Sep low C  = 11.6
| Oct low C  = 6.2
| Nov low C  = 1.7
| Dec low C  = -2.4
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| Jan precipitation mm  = 28
| Feb precipitation mm  = 29
| Mar precipitation mm  = 27
| Apr precipitation mm  = 40
| May precipitation mm  = 56
| Jun precipitation mm  = 70
| Jul precipitation mm  = 55
| Aug precipitation mm  = 48
| Sep precipitation mm  = 43
| Oct precipitation mm  = 28
| Nov precipitation mm  = 34
| Dec precipitation mm  = 31
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| source = Climate-data.org <ref>{{cite web |url= http://en.climate-data.org/location/121626/ |title= Climate data for Liești, Galați |publisher= |access-date=November 26, 2016 }}</ref>
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==References==
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{{Communes Galati County}}

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[[Category:Communes in Galați County]]
[[Category:Localities in Western Moldavia]]