Breaza
Commune
Coat of arms
Location in Suceava County
Breaza Location in Romania
Coordinates: 47°37′N 25°20′E / 47.617°N 25.333°E / 47.617; 25.333
Country	Romania
County	Suceava
Population  (2021-12-01)[1]	1,360
Time zone	EET/EEST (UTC+2/+3)
Vehicle reg.	SV

Breaza (Ukrainian: Бряза) is a commune located in Suceava County, Romania. It is composed of three villages: Breaza, Breaza de Sus and Pârâu Negrei.

The commune shares its name with Breaza, Prahova County, its name being derived from a Slavic word, breza, meaning "birch tree".^[2] Inhabited by a majority of Ukrainians up to the 1930s, the ethnicity and language of all its inhabitants are today reported as Romanian.

Breaza is located at a distance of 359 km north of Bucharest, 69 km west of Suceava.

Population

The commune includes the following villages:

• Breaza (Ukrainian: Бряза) (1159 inhabitants)
• Breaza de Sus (Ukrainian: Бряза-де-Сус) (333 inhabitants)
• Pârâu Negrei (Ukrainian: Пириу-Негрей) (198 inhabitants)

According to the 2002 census,^[3] there were 1,690 people living in the commune, all of them Romanians. According to the 2011 census, 98.88% are Romanians and 0.86% of unknown ethnicity. All the inhabitants of the commune called Romanian their native language. As a result of Romanization, the national composition of the commune changed dramatically compared to 1930 (60.03% of Ruthenians, 5.95% of Jews, 1.08% of Russians, 0.7% of Germans, 0.06% of Poles, and 32.13% of Romanians). In the 1930 census, Ruthenians (Ukrainians) and Russians were counted separately.

As of religion, the composition of the population of the commune today is: 99.1% Orthodox, 0.7% Adventeists, 0.2% Pentecostals.