Zgurița is a village in Drochia District, in the north of Moldova. At the 2004 census, it had a population of 2,840. The village was founded by merging three localities: Zgura in the North, Nicorești in North-West, two Romanian villages mentioned before 1812, and Zgurița, in South-West, a Jewish agricultural colony founded in 1853 on an area of over 1,000 acres re…Zgurița is a village in Drochia District, in the north of Moldova. At the 2004 census, it had a population of 2,840. The village was founded by merging three localities: Zgura in the North, Nicorești in North-West, two Romanian villages mentioned before 1812, and Zgurița, in South-West, a Jewish agricultural colony founded in 1853 on an area of over 1,000 acres rented by Jewish settlers in Bessarabia. It was the last Jewish agricultural settlement in Bessarabia. Nicorești was eventually separated from Zgurița.
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