Moldavia is a historical region that encompasses Moldova (Romania) and Southern Bukovina (northeast of Romania), Republic of Moldova and Northern Bukovina from Ukraine. Moldova was a Romanian state in the Middle Ages and after it: Principality of Moldova.
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Currently, the area of the region is divided between Romania, Republic of Moldova and Ukraine. The cumulative surface of these territories (within the current administrative limits) is 86,783 km², of which 35,806 km² in Romania (the 8 counties of Western Moldova including Bucovina South), 29,680 km² in the Republic of Moldova (right side Nistru also known as Bessarabia) and 21,297 km² in Ukraine (Chernivtsi region including Northern Bukovina, the land Herței and the land Hotinului, and the 9 districts of Bugeac). Clockwise, Moldova borders on the west with Transylvania and Maramures, northwest with Galicia, north and northeast with Podolia, the east with The edisan, southeast with Black Sea, and to the south with Dobrogea and Muntenia.
Moldovan
The name of Moldovan has different meanings depending on:
- International law, according to which "Moldovans" are all citizens Republic of Moldova regardless of their ethnicity;
- Romanian law, according to which "Moldovans" are part of Romanian people (defined by speech Daco-Romanian language), namely the part originating from the territories of the former Principality of Moldova, on both banks of Prut;
- The law of the former union republics Soviet[1] including the Republic of Moldova, according to which only speakers Daco-Romanian language citizens of these states are “Moldovans”, they constitute a “ethnicity different from Romanians », Including by the Romanians from Moldavia Romanian.[2]
Geography
From a geographical and historical point of view, the word «Moldovan »Designates the inhabitants of the lands that belonged to the former principality in Moldova[3], regardless of their nationality, namely:
- residents Moldova, a historical region in the east romania (46% of the former Principality): 4,700,000 people in the geographical and historical sense of the word, 98% of Moldovan origin[4] ;
- conformable earthly law, all citizens of the Republic of Moldova (36% of the former Principality): 4,324,500 persons, of Moldovan origin in proportion of 69%, ie 2,983,905 Moldovan citizens;
- conformable ancestral law, only persons of Moldovan origin from the Republic of Moldova: 3,288,500 persons (from the linguistic point of view Romanian-speaking speakers ai the Moldovan dialect[5]), who at the census can declare themselves, at their choice, either “Moldovans” (Moldovan nationality) or "Romanians" (Romanian Nationality)[6] ;
- people of Moldovan origin from the regions ukraine who belonged in the past to Moldova (18% of the former Principality): 372,000 people, ie 11% of the population of these regions (Bucovina north and Budjak) or 0.8% of the population of Ukraine[7][8].
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- ↑Except for the three Baltic countries.
- ↑The academic sphere considers, entirely in Romania and mostly in the Republic of Moldova and in the western countries, the second understood as the one according to the scientific data (historical, geographical and linguistic); a minority in the Republic of Moldova and in the western countries, but a majority in the former Soviet countries (except the Baltic countries), however, supports the third meaning (see the sources of the article «Identity controversy in the Republic of Moldova »).
- ↑Definition of Moldovans conformable The Explanatory Dictionary in Romanian
- ↑The 2002 census - Evenimentul.ro - 25.02.2009
- ↑Identity controversy in the Republic of Moldova
- ↑2004 Population Census
- ↑The World Factbook, CIA (2006)
- ↑UN (2004)