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The campaign to promote Romanian identity in Moldova was unsuccessful, and led to tensions amongst the Slavic and Gaugauz minorities in Moldova. The resistance from the Moldovan population was so large that Romanian authorities instated a "state of siege" in Moldova between 1918 and 1928, restricting civil rights, giving law enforcements ...
Moldovans, sometimes referred to as Moldavians (Romanian: moldoveni, Moldovan Cyrillic: молдовень, pronounced [moldoˈvenʲ]), are the ethnic group native to the Moldova, who mostly speak the Romanian language, locally referred also as Moldovan. 75.1% of the Moldovan population declared Moldovan ethnicity in the 2014 Moldovan census, and Moldovans form significant communities in ...
The eighteen villages in the Hlyboka Raion, the Novoselytsia Raion and the Hertsa Raion of historical Bukovina and the Hertsa area in 1989 with a significant Romanian-speaking populations, most of which declared a Moldovan ethnic identity in 1989, had 15,412 individuals who overwhelmingly declared their language to be Romanian in 2001 (55.91% ...
Moldova's opposition challenger to President Maia Sandu's re-election bid came under fire on Tuesday for holding duel citizenship with neighbouring Romania -- a criticism that has also been ...
Independent studies found a Moldovan linguistic identity asserted in particular by the rural population and post-Soviet political class. [69] In a survey conducted in four villages near the border with Romania, when asked about their native language the interviewees identified the following: Moldovan 53%, Romanian 44%, and Russian 3%. [70]
The Soviets strongly promoted the Moldovan ethnic identity, against other opinions that viewed all speakers of the Romanian language as part of a single ethnic group, taking advantage of the incomplete integration of Bessarabia into the interwar Romania.
Pages in category "Controversy over ethnic and linguistic identity in Moldova" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
In addition, as previously stated, the Liberal Party of Moldova sent a bill on the unification of Moldova with Romania to the Moldovan parliament [102] and later tried to achieve unification with Romania by collecting signatures. [103] The Moldovan diaspora too started making declarations of unification between the two countries. [235] [236] [237]