TÂRPEȘTI / geographic setting / documentary testimony In the north-east of the county of Neamt, south-east of Tg. Neamt, there is Petricani, in the valley of Neamt, crossed by the river Topolita. The geographic coordinates give a more precise location: 47° 7' northern latitude, 26° 37' eastern longitude. The documentary testimony of Târpesti is dated much later compared to the other villages in Petricani, but the roots of the settlement are much older (4-3 millennium BC - Neolithic cultures). People say that the first name of the village was Bodăiești. It included 30-40 households in the area known today as "Țarna Mare" in "Bodai’s ravine". In the late 16th century, a group of people from Ardeal, led by Târpea, brought their sheep and settled in the area. Later on, the three sons of Târpea each settled in a different part of the village constituting thus a community that was going to bear the name of Târpești. The first documentary testimony appeared in 1586, April 17, when the ruler Peter the Limp appointed Pavel the chief of Târpești, which he granted Pavel with in exchange for Savesti, another village transferred under the administration of the Probota monastery.

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