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href="https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D9%88%D9%84%D8%AF%D9%88%D9%81%D9%8A%D9%88%D9%86" title="مولدوفيون – Arabic" lang="ar" hreflang="ar" data-title="مولدوفيون" data-language-autonym="العربية" data-language-local-name="Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>العربية</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-an mw-list-item"><a href="https://an.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moldavos" title="Moldavos – Aragonese" lang="an" hreflang="an" data-title="Moldavos" data-language-autonym="Aragonés" data-language-local-name="Aragonese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Aragonés</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-az mw-list-item"><a href="https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moldovanlar" title="Moldovanlar – Azerbaijani" lang="az" hreflang="az" data-title="Moldovanlar" data-language-autonym="Azərbaycanca" data-language-local-name="Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Azərbaycanca</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-azb mw-list-item"><a href="https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D9%88%D9%84%D8%AF%D9%88%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%86%E2%80%8C%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%B1" title="مولدووان‌لار – South Azerbaijani" lang="azb" hreflang="azb" data-title="مولدووان‌لار" data-language-autonym="تۆرکجه" data-language-local-name="South Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>تۆرکجه</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be mw-list-item"><a href="https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%B4%D0%B0%D0%B2%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B5" title="Малдаване – Belarusian" lang="be" hreflang="be" data-title="Малдаване" data-language-autonym="Беларуская" data-language-local-name="Belarusian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Беларуская</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be-x-old mw-list-item"><a href="https://be-tarask.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%B4%D0%B0%D0%B2%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B5" title="Малдаване – Belarusian (Taraškievica orthography)" lang="be-tarask" hreflang="be-tarask" data-title="Малдаване" data-language-autonym="Беларуская (тарашкевіца)" data-language-local-name="Belarusian (Taraškievica orthography)" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Беларуская (тарашкевіца)</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bg mw-list-item"><a href="https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%B4%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B8" title="Молдовани – Bulgarian" lang="bg" hreflang="bg" data-title="Молдовани" data-language-autonym="Български" data-language-local-name="Bulgarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Български</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moldaus" title="Moldaus – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="Moldaus" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Català</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moldavan%C3%A9" title="Moldavané – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Moldavané" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Čeština</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moldauer" title="Moldauer – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Moldauer" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-et mw-list-item"><a href="https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moldovlased" title="Moldovlased – Estonian" lang="et" hreflang="et" data-title="Moldovlased" data-language-autonym="Eesti" data-language-local-name="Estonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Eesti</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-el mw-list-item"><a href="https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%9C%CE%BF%CE%BB%CE%B4%CE%B1%CE%B2%CE%BF%CE%AF" title="Μολδαβοί – Greek" lang="el" hreflang="el" data-title="Μολδαβοί" data-language-autonym="Ελληνικά" data-language-local-name="Greek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ελληνικά</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pueblo_moldavo" title="Pueblo moldavo – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Pueblo moldavo" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moldaviar" title="Moldaviar – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="Moldaviar" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Euskara</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%B1%D8%AF%D9%85_%D9%85%D9%88%D9%84%D8%AF%D9%88%D9%88%D8%A7" title="مردم مولدووا – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="مردم مولدووا" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moldaves" title="Moldaves – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Moldaves" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gag mw-list-item"><a href="https://gag.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moldovannar" title="Moldovannar – Gagauz" lang="gag" hreflang="gag" data-title="Moldovannar" data-language-autonym="Gagauz" data-language-local-name="Gagauz" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Gagauz</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gl mw-list-item"><a href="https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pobo_moldovo" title="Pobo moldovo – Galician" lang="gl" hreflang="gl" data-title="Pobo moldovo" data-language-autonym="Galego" data-language-local-name="Galician" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Galego</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%AA%B0%EB%8F%84%EB%B0%94%EC%9D%B8" title="몰도바인 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="몰도바인" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hy mw-list-item"><a href="https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D5%84%D5%B8%D5%AC%D5%A4%D5%B8%D5%BE%D5%A1%D6%81%D5%AB%D5%B6%D5%A5%D6%80" title="Մոլդովացիներ – Armenian" lang="hy" hreflang="hy" data-title="Մոլդովացիներ" data-language-autonym="Հայերեն" data-language-local-name="Armenian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Հայերեն</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hr mw-list-item"><a href="https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moldavci" title="Moldavci – Croatian" lang="hr" hreflang="hr" data-title="Moldavci" data-language-autonym="Hrvatski" data-language-local-name="Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Hrvatski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orang_Moldova" title="Orang Moldova – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="Orang Moldova" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Indonesia</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-os mw-list-item"><a href="https://os.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%B4%D0%B0%D0%B2%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%BD%D0%B0%D0%B3_%D0%B0%D0%B4%C3%A6%D0%BC" title="Молдавайнаг адæм – Ossetic" lang="os" hreflang="os" data-title="Молдавайнаг адæм" data-language-autonym="Ирон" data-language-local-name="Ossetic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ирон</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moldavi" title="Moldavi – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Moldavi" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ka mw-list-item"><a href="https://ka.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%9B%E1%83%9D%E1%83%9A%E1%83%93%E1%83%9D%E1%83%95%E1%83%94%E1%83%9A%E1%83%94%E1%83%91%E1%83%98" title="მოლდოველები – Georgian" lang="ka" hreflang="ka" data-title="მოლდოველები" data-language-autonym="ქართული" data-language-local-name="Georgian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ქართული</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kk mw-list-item"><a href="https://kk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%B4%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B4%D0%B0%D1%80" title="Молдовандар – Kazakh" lang="kk" hreflang="kk" data-title="Молдовандар" data-language-autonym="Қазақша" data-language-local-name="Kazakh" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Қазақша</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ky mw-list-item"><a href="https://ky.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%B4%D0%B0%D0%B2%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B4%D0%B0%D1%80" title="Молдавандар – Kyrgyz" lang="ky" hreflang="ky" data-title="Молдавандар" data-language-autonym="Кыргызча" data-language-local-name="Kyrgyz" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Кыргызча</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lv mw-list-item"><a href="https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mold%C4%81vi" title="Moldāvi – Latvian" lang="lv" hreflang="lv" data-title="Moldāvi" data-language-autonym="Latviešu" data-language-local-name="Latvian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latviešu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lt mw-list-item"><a href="https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moldavai" title="Moldavai – Lithuanian" lang="lt" hreflang="lt" data-title="Moldavai" data-language-autonym="Lietuvių" data-language-local-name="Lithuanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lietuvių</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hu mw-list-item"><a href="https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mold%C3%A1vok" title="Moldávok – Hungarian" lang="hu" hreflang="hu" data-title="Moldávok" data-language-autonym="Magyar" data-language-local-name="Hungarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Magyar</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mk mw-list-item"><a href="https://mk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%B4%D0%B0%D0%B2%D1%86%D0%B8" title="Молдавци – Macedonian" lang="mk" hreflang="mk" data-title="Молдавци" data-language-autonym="Македонски" data-language-local-name="Macedonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Македонски</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mg mw-list-item"><a href="https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%B4ldaviana_(vahoaka)" title="Môldaviana (vahoaka) – Malagasy" lang="mg" hreflang="mg" data-title="Môldaviana (vahoaka)" data-language-autonym="Malagasy" data-language-local-name="Malagasy" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Malagasy</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-arz mw-list-item"><a href="https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D9%88%D9%84%D8%AF%D9%88%D9%81%D9%8A%D9%8A%D9%86" title="مولدوفيين – Egyptian Arabic" lang="arz" hreflang="arz" data-title="مولدوفيين" data-language-autonym="مصرى" data-language-local-name="Egyptian Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>مصرى</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moldavi%C3%ABrs" title="Moldaviërs – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="Moldaviërs" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nederlands</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%A2%E3%83%AB%E3%83%89%E3%83%90%E4%BA%BA" title="モルドバ人 – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="モルドバ人" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>日本語</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ce mw-list-item"><a href="https://ce.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%B4%D0%B0%D0%B2%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%88" title="Молдаванаш – Chechen" lang="ce" hreflang="ce" data-title="Молдаванаш" data-language-autonym="Нохчийн" data-language-local-name="Chechen" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Нохчийн</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-uz mw-list-item"><a href="https://uz.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moldavanlar" title="Moldavanlar – Uzbek" lang="uz" hreflang="uz" data-title="Moldavanlar" data-language-autonym="Oʻzbekcha / ўзбекча" data-language-local-name="Uzbek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Oʻzbekcha / ўзбекча</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pl mw-list-item"><a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mo%C5%82dawianie" title="Mołdawianie – Polish" lang="pl" hreflang="pl" data-title="Mołdawianie" data-language-autonym="Polski" data-language-local-name="Polish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Polski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pt mw-list-item"><a href="https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mold%C3%A1vios" title="Moldávios – Portuguese" lang="pt" hreflang="pt" data-title="Moldávios" data-language-autonym="Português" data-language-local-name="Portuguese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Português</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ro mw-list-item"><a href="https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moldoveni" title="Moldoveni – Romanian" lang="ro" hreflang="ro" data-title="Moldoveni" data-language-autonym="Română" data-language-local-name="Romanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Română</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-rue mw-list-item"><a href="https://rue.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%B4%D0%B0%D0%B2%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B5" title="Молдаване – Rusyn" lang="rue" hreflang="rue" data-title="Молдаване" data-language-autonym="Русиньскый" data-language-local-name="Rusyn" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Русиньскый</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ru mw-list-item"><a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%B4%D0%B0%D0%B2%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B5" title="Молдаване – Russian" lang="ru" hreflang="ru" data-title="Молдаване" data-language-autonym="Русский" data-language-local-name="Russian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Русский</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sq mw-list-item"><a href="https://sq.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moldav%C3%ABt" title="Moldavët – Albanian" lang="sq" hreflang="sq" data-title="Moldavët" data-language-autonym="Shqip" data-language-local-name="Albanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Shqip</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-simple mw-list-item"><a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moldovans" 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.mw-parser-output .infobox-table th,body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table td{padding-left:inherit;padding-right:inherit}}</style><table class="infobox vcard"><caption class="infobox-title fn org">Moldovans</caption><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above nickname" style="font-size:115%; font-weight:normal;"><div lang="ro"><i>Moldoveni</i></div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Map_of_the_Moldavian_Diaspora_in_the_World_(1).svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b1/Map_of_the_Moldavian_Diaspora_in_the_World_%281%29.svg/260px-Map_of_the_Moldavian_Diaspora_in_the_World_%281%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="260" height="117" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b1/Map_of_the_Moldavian_Diaspora_in_the_World_%281%29.svg/390px-Map_of_the_Moldavian_Diaspora_in_the_World_%281%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b1/Map_of_the_Moldavian_Diaspora_in_the_World_%281%29.svg/520px-Map_of_the_Moldavian_Diaspora_in_the_World_%281%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="230" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption">Map of the <a href="/wiki/Moldovan_diaspora" title="Moldovan diaspora">Moldovan diaspora</a></div></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color:#b0c4de; color:inherit;">Total population</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><abbr title="circa">c.</abbr> 2.9 million<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color:#b0c4de; color:inherit;">Regions with significant populations</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/27/Flag_of_Moldova.svg/40px-Flag_of_Moldova.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/27/Flag_of_Moldova.svg/60px-Flag_of_Moldova.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1800" data-file-height="900" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Moldova" title="Moldova">Moldova</a>  2,023,069<br />(including 135,957 in <a href="/wiki/Transnistria" title="Transnistria">Transnistria</a>)<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color:#b0c4de; color:inherit;">Other countries</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/Flag_of_Romania.svg/23px-Flag_of_Romania.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/Flag_of_Romania.svg/35px-Flag_of_Romania.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/Flag_of_Romania.svg/45px-Flag_of_Romania.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="400" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Romania" title="Romania">Romania</a></th><td class="infobox-data">285,000<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Flag_of_Ukraine.svg/23px-Flag_of_Ukraine.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Flag_of_Ukraine.svg/35px-Flag_of_Ukraine.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Flag_of_Ukraine.svg/45px-Flag_of_Ukraine.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="800" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Ukraine" title="Ukraine">Ukraine</a></th><td class="infobox-data">258,619<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/f3/Flag_of_Russia.svg/23px-Flag_of_Russia.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/f3/Flag_of_Russia.svg/35px-Flag_of_Russia.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/f3/Flag_of_Russia.svg/45px-Flag_of_Russia.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Russia" title="Russia">Russia</a></th><td class="infobox-data">77,509<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/03/Flag_of_Italy.svg/40px-Flag_of_Italy.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/03/Flag_of_Italy.svg/60px-Flag_of_Italy.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1500" data-file-height="1000" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Italy" title="Italy">Italy</a></th><td class="infobox-data">188,923<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/Flag_of_Germany.svg/23px-Flag_of_Germany.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/Flag_of_Germany.svg/35px-Flag_of_Germany.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/Flag_of_Germany.svg/46px-Flag_of_Germany.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Germany" title="Germany">Germany</a></th><td class="infobox-data">139,000<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/12/Flag_of_Poland.svg/23px-Flag_of_Poland.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/12/Flag_of_Poland.svg/35px-Flag_of_Poland.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/12/Flag_of_Poland.svg/46px-Flag_of_Poland.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1280" data-file-height="800" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Poland" title="Poland">Poland</a></th><td class="infobox-data">37,338<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/c3/Flag_of_France.svg/40px-Flag_of_France.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/c3/Flag_of_France.svg/60px-Flag_of_France.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/France" title="France">France</a></th><td class="infobox-data">26,300<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-INSEE_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-INSEE-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/9a/Flag_of_Spain.svg/40px-Flag_of_Spain.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/9a/Flag_of_Spain.svg/60px-Flag_of_Spain.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="750" data-file-height="500" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Spain" title="Spain">Spain</a></th><td class="infobox-data">17,426<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d3/Flag_of_Kazakhstan.svg/40px-Flag_of_Kazakhstan.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d3/Flag_of_Kazakhstan.svg/60px-Flag_of_Kazakhstan.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="500" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Kazakhstan" title="Kazakhstan">Kazakhstan</a></th><td class="infobox-data">14,245<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5c/Flag_of_Portugal.svg/23px-Flag_of_Portugal.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5c/Flag_of_Portugal.svg/35px-Flag_of_Portugal.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5c/Flag_of_Portugal.svg/45px-Flag_of_Portugal.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="400" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Portugal" title="Portugal">Portugal</a></th><td class="infobox-data">13,586<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b4/Flag_of_Turkey.svg/23px-Flag_of_Turkey.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b4/Flag_of_Turkey.svg/35px-Flag_of_Turkey.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b4/Flag_of_Turkey.svg/45px-Flag_of_Turkey.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="800" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Turkey" title="Turkey">Turkey</a></th><td class="infobox-data">13,472<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5c/Flag_of_Greece.svg/40px-Flag_of_Greece.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5c/Flag_of_Greece.svg/60px-Flag_of_Greece.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="400" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Greece" title="Greece">Greece</a></th><td class="infobox-data">9,920<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/Flag_of_Canada_%28Pantone%29.svg/23px-Flag_of_Canada_%28Pantone%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/Flag_of_Canada_%28Pantone%29.svg/35px-Flag_of_Canada_%28Pantone%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/Flag_of_Canada_%28Pantone%29.svg/46px-Flag_of_Canada_%28Pantone%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Canada" title="Canada">Canada</a></th><td class="infobox-data">8,050<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a4/Flag_of_the_United_States.svg/23px-Flag_of_the_United_States.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a4/Flag_of_the_United_States.svg/35px-Flag_of_the_United_States.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a4/Flag_of_the_United_States.svg/46px-Flag_of_the_United_States.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1235" data-file-height="650" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">United States</a></th><td class="infobox-data">7,859<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cb/Flag_of_the_Czech_Republic.svg/40px-Flag_of_the_Czech_Republic.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cb/Flag_of_the_Czech_Republic.svg/60px-Flag_of_the_Czech_Republic.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Czech_Republic" title="Czech Republic">Czech Republic</a></th><td class="infobox-data">5,260<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/85/Flag_of_Belarus.svg/40px-Flag_of_Belarus.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/85/Flag_of_Belarus.svg/60px-Flag_of_Belarus.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Belarus" title="Belarus">Belarus</a></th><td class="infobox-data">3,465<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/ae/Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom.svg/23px-Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/ae/Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom.svg/35px-Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/ae/Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom.svg/46px-Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/United_Kingdom" title="United Kingdom">United Kingdom</a></th><td class="infobox-data">3,417<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/84/Flag_of_Latvia.svg/40px-Flag_of_Latvia.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/84/Flag_of_Latvia.svg/60px-Flag_of_Latvia.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Latvia" title="Latvia">Latvia</a></th><td class="infobox-data">2,284<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color:#b0c4de; color:inherit;">Languages</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><a href="/wiki/Romanian_language" title="Romanian language">Romanian</a> (also referred to as "<a href="/wiki/Moldovan_language" title="Moldovan language">Moldovan</a>")</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color:#b0c4de; color:inherit;">Religion</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><a href="/wiki/Eastern_Orthodox_Church" title="Eastern Orthodox Church">Orthodox Christianity</a></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color:#b0c4de; color:inherit;">Related ethnic groups</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><a href="/wiki/Romanians" title="Romanians">Romanians</a> </td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Moldovans</b>, sometimes referred to as <b>Moldavians</b> (<a href="/wiki/Romanian_language" title="Romanian language">Romanian</a>: <i lang="ro">moldoveni</i>, <a href="/wiki/Moldovan_Cyrillic" class="mw-redirect" title="Moldovan Cyrillic">Moldovan Cyrillic</a>: <span lang="ro-Cyrl">молдовень</span>, <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1177148991">.mw-parser-output .IPA-label-small{font-size:85%}.mw-parser-output .references .IPA-label-small,.mw-parser-output .infobox .IPA-label-small,.mw-parser-output .navbox .IPA-label-small{font-size:100%}</style><span class="IPA-label IPA-label-small">pronounced</span> <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="ro-Latn-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/Romanian" title="Help:IPA/Romanian">[moldoˈvenʲ]</a></span>), are the <a href="/wiki/Ethnic_group" class="mw-redirect" title="Ethnic group">ethnic group</a> native to <a href="/wiki/Moldova" title="Moldova">Moldova</a>, who speak the <a href="/wiki/Romanian_language" title="Romanian language">Romanian language</a>, locally referred also as <a href="/wiki/Moldovan_language" title="Moldovan language">Moldovan</a>. 77.18% of the Moldovan population declared Moldovan ethnicity in the <a href="/wiki/2024_Moldovan_census" title="2024 Moldovan census">2024 Moldovan census</a>, and Moldovans form significant communities in <a href="/wiki/Romania" title="Romania">Romania</a>, <a href="/wiki/Italy" title="Italy">Italy</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ukraine" title="Ukraine">Ukraine</a> and <a href="/wiki/Russia" title="Russia">Russia</a>. </p><p><a href="/wiki/Controversy_over_ethnic_and_linguistic_identity_in_Moldova" title="Controversy over ethnic and linguistic identity in Moldova">There is an ongoing controversy</a> over whether the Moldovans constitute an ethnic subgroup of the <a href="/wiki/Romanians" title="Romanians">Romanians</a>. </p><p>The term "Moldavian" can also be used to refer to the inhabitants of the territory of the historical <a href="/wiki/Moldavia" title="Moldavia">Principality of Moldavia</a>, currently divided among <a href="/wiki/Romania" title="Romania">Romania</a> (47.5%), Moldova (30.5%) and Ukraine (22%). In Romania, natives of <a href="/wiki/Western_Moldavia" title="Western Moldavia">Western Moldavia</a> identifying with the term declare Romanian ethnicity,<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> while the natives of the Republic of Moldova are usually called "Bessarabians" (<a href="/wiki/Romanian_language" title="Romanian language">Romanian</a>: <i lang="ro">basarabeni</i>). </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Moldovans&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Moldova_(1483)-en.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/Moldova_%281483%29-en.png/220px-Moldova_%281483%29-en.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="201" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/Moldova_%281483%29-en.png/330px-Moldova_%281483%29-en.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/Moldova_%281483%29-en.png/440px-Moldova_%281483%29-en.png 2x" data-file-width="1769" data-file-height="1614" /></a><figcaption>The Principality of Moldavia in the 15th century</figcaption></figure> <p>According to <a href="/wiki/Miron_Costin" title="Miron Costin">Miron Costin</a>, a prominent chronicler from 17th-century <a href="/wiki/Moldavia" title="Moldavia">Moldavia</a>, the inhabitants of the Principality of <a href="/wiki/Moldavia" title="Moldavia">Moldavia</a> spoke Latin and called themselves "Moldavians", but also "Romans" (with the local form "rumân/râmlean") which, he notes, comes from "<a href="/wiki/Rome" title="Rome">romanus</a>".<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Also, the <a href="/wiki/Slavs" title="Slavs">Slavic</a> neighbours called Moldovans "<a href="/wiki/Vlachs" title="Vlachs">Vlachs</a>" or "Volokhs", a term also used to refer to all native Romance speakers from <a href="/wiki/Eastern_Europe" title="Eastern Europe">Eastern Europe</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Balkan_peninsula" class="mw-redirect" title="Balkan peninsula">Balkan peninsula</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1812, the <a href="/wiki/Russian_Empire" title="Russian Empire">Russian Empire</a> received the eastern half of Moldavia from the Ottoman Empire and named it <a href="/wiki/Bessarabia" title="Bessarabia">Bessarabia</a>. As the ethnonym "Romanian" was gaining more and more popularity throughout the remaining territory of Moldavia and <a href="/wiki/Bukovina" title="Bukovina">Bukovina</a> during the 19th century, its dissemination in Bessarabia, a more backward and rural province of the Russian Empire at the time, was welcomed mostly by the Romanian-oriented intellectuals, while the majority of the rural population continued to use the old self-identification "Moldovans".<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Some authors observe that the Russian officials also initially preferred to refer to the native inhabitants of Bessarabia as "Romanians" (or "Volochi"), but after the 1859 <a href="/wiki/Unification_of_Moldavia_and_Wallachia" title="Unification of Moldavia and Wallachia">unification of Moldavia and Wallachia</a> they gradually began using the term "Moldavians" for them, to justify the idea of <a href="/wiki/Russification" title="Russification">Russifiers</a> and <a href="/wiki/Pan-Slavists" class="mw-redirect" title="Pan-Slavists">Pan-Slavists</a> to create an identity different from that of the Romanians of <a href="/wiki/Western_Moldavia" title="Western Moldavia">Western Moldavia</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEvan_Meurs1994110–111_29-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEvan_Meurs1994110–111-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Historian van Meurs however indicates that some Russian official documents and scholarly studies in the 19th century actually continued to use both "Romanians" and "Moldavians" when referring to the local population, noting that the Russian policy which restricted the use of the Romanian language in Bessarabia was rather part of the general tendency of Russification and of promotion of a tsarist nationality policy as such. </p><p>Van Meurs concludes that before the <a href="/wiki/October_Revolution" title="October Revolution">October Revolution</a> the inhabitants of Bessarabia probably considered themselves "Moldavians" in a "natural, primarily local-territorial sense", and there had been no consistent government-sponsored effort to influence the local nation-building process by promoting a Moldavian identity.<sup id="cite_ref-Meurs1998_30-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Meurs1998-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Likewise, historian <a href="/wiki/Charles_King_(professor_of_international_affairs)" title="Charles King (professor of international affairs)">Charles King</a> notes that the Moldovan peasant's view of his own national identity was not the product of Russian assimilationist policies but had instead remained virtually frozen since 1812.<sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Romanian researcher <a href="/wiki/Irina_Livezeanu" title="Irina Livezeanu">Irina Livezeanu</a> further notes that the Russification policies did not greatly affect the identity of the Moldavians, as their overwhelming majority were illiterate peasants.<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Until the 1920s, Romanian historians generally considered Moldovans as a subgroup of the Romanian ethnos.<sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> After 1924, within the newly created <a href="/wiki/Moldavian_Autonomous_Soviet_Socialist_Republic" title="Moldavian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic">Moldavian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic</a>, Soviet authorities supported the creation of the <a href="/wiki/Moldovan_language" title="Moldovan language">Moldovan language</a> standards allegedly in order to prove that Moldovans form a separate ethnic group.<sup id="cite_ref-page3_34-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-page3-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Sprachatlas_Weigand_65.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2c/Sprachatlas_Weigand_65.JPG/250px-Sprachatlas_Weigand_65.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="192" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2c/Sprachatlas_Weigand_65.JPG/330px-Sprachatlas_Weigand_65.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2c/Sprachatlas_Weigand_65.JPG/500px-Sprachatlas_Weigand_65.JPG 2x" data-file-width="3424" data-file-height="2988" /></a><figcaption>A 1908 map of Romanian dialects (Banat, Moldovan, Muntenian) by <a href="/wiki/Gustav_Weigand" title="Gustav Weigand">Gustav Weigand</a></figcaption></figure> <p>In the past, the terms "Moldovan" or "Moldavian" have been used to refer to the population of the historical Principality of Moldavia. However, for the inhabitants of Bessarabia living under the Russian rule, the term gained an ethnic connotation by the beginning of the 20th century: in May 1917, at a congress of Bessarabian teachers, a dispute arose over the identification of the native population; a group protested against being called "Romanians", affirming they were "Moldovans",<sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> while another group, led by poet <a href="/wiki/Alexei_Mateevici" title="Alexei Mateevici">Alexei Mateevici</a>, supported the view that the Moldovans are also Romanians.<sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In March 1918, Bessarabia (the Moldovan Democratic Republic) <a href="/wiki/Union_of_Bessarabia_with_Romania" title="Union of Bessarabia with Romania">joined</a> the <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Romania" title="Kingdom of Romania">Kingdom of Romania</a>, following a vote of <a href="/wiki/Sfatul_%C8%9A%C4%83rii" title="Sfatul Țării">Sfatul Țării</a>. The circumstances surrounding the vote were themselves complex, since, at the request of the <a href="/wiki/Sfatul_%C8%9A%C4%83rii" title="Sfatul Țării">Sfatul Țării</a>, <a href="/wiki/Romanian_military_intervention_in_Bessarabia" title="Romanian military intervention in Bessarabia">Romanian troops were present in Bessarabia</a>, as it was facing external threats and anarchy within.<sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Romania_MASSR_1924.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/75/Romania_MASSR_1924.png/250px-Romania_MASSR_1924.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="161" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/75/Romania_MASSR_1924.png/330px-Romania_MASSR_1924.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/75/Romania_MASSR_1924.png/500px-Romania_MASSR_1924.png 2x" data-file-width="585" data-file-height="428" /></a><figcaption>Map depicting the borders of the <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Romania" title="Kingdom of Romania">Kingdom of Romania</a> (1918–1940) and the M.A.S.S.R. to the east</figcaption></figure> <p>By the time of the union, the peasants of Bessarabia, who constituted the majority of Romanian speakers in the region, clung to a Moldavian identity and did not undergo the same nation-building as the ones in Romania. Moreover, during the interwar, peasants in all regions of historical Moldavia (Bessarabia, <a href="/wiki/Bukovina" title="Bukovina">Bukovina</a> and <a href="/wiki/Western_Moldavia" title="Western Moldavia">Western Moldavia</a>) where more likely to identify themselves as Moldavians than city-dwellers. Several researchers who visited the area around World War I, including the Romanian historian <a href="/wiki/Ion_Nistor" title="Ion Nistor">Ion Nistor</a> and French geographer <a href="/wiki/Emmanuel_de_Martonne" title="Emmanuel de Martonne">Emmanuel de Martonne</a> testified that most Bessarabian peasants called themselves Moldavians. On the other hand, the small Moldavian urban elite was Russified to a large degree.<sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Pan-Romanian nationalism was "almost wholly" imported into the region around World War I by propagandists from <a href="/wiki/Transylvania" title="Transylvania">Transylvania</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bukovina" title="Bukovina">Bukovina</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Old_Kingdom_(Romania)" class="mw-redirect" title="Old Kingdom (Romania)">Old Kingdom</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The Romanian state promoted a common identity for all its inhabitants. Owing partly to its relative underdevelopment compared to other regions of <a href="/wiki/Greater_Romania" title="Greater Romania">Greater Romania</a>, as well as to the low competence and corruption of the new Romanian administration in this province, the integration process of Bessarabia in the unified Romanian state was less successful than in other regions and was soon to be disrupted by the Soviet occupation.<sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-43" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-44" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1940, during <a href="/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a>, Romania agreed to an <a href="/wiki/Soviet_occupation_of_Bessarabia_and_Northern_Bukovina" title="Soviet occupation of Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina">ultimatum</a> and returned the region to the <a href="/wiki/Soviet_Union" title="Soviet Union">Soviet Union</a>, which organized it into the <a href="/wiki/Moldavian_SSR" class="mw-redirect" title="Moldavian SSR">Moldavian SSR</a>. The Soviets began a campaign to return the Moldovan identity overt that of the rest of <a href="/wiki/Romanian_language" title="Romanian language">Romanian</a> speakers, taking advantage of the incomplete integration of Bessarabia into the interwar Romania (see also <a href="/wiki/Moldovenism" title="Moldovenism">Moldovenism</a>).<sup id="cite_ref-45" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The official Soviet policy also stated that Romanian and Moldovan were two different languages and, to emphasize this distinction, Moldovan had to be written in a new Cyrillic alphabet (the <a href="/wiki/Moldovan_Cyrillic_alphabet" title="Moldovan Cyrillic alphabet">Moldovan Cyrillic alphabet</a>) based on the Russian Cyrillic, rather than the older Romanian Cyrillic that ceased to be used in the 19th century in the <a href="/wiki/Romanian_Old_Kingdom" title="Romanian Old Kingdom">Romanian Old Kingdom</a> and in 1917 in Bessarabia.<sup id="cite_ref-46" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Identity_politics_in_the_Republic_of_Moldova">Identity politics in the Republic of Moldova</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Moldovans&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Identity politics in the Republic of Moldova"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951" /><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Controversy_over_ethnic_and_linguistic_identity_in_Moldova" title="Controversy over ethnic and linguistic identity in Moldova">Controversy over ethnic and linguistic identity in Moldova</a></div> <p>A survey carried out in the Republic of Moldova in 1992 showed that 87% of the Romanian (then known as Moldovan) speakers identified themselves as "Moldovans", rather than "Romanians".<sup id="cite_ref-47" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>According to a study conducted in the Republic of Moldova in May 1998, when the self-declared Moldovans were asked to characterize the relationship of the Romanian and Moldovan identities, 55% considered them somewhat different, 26% very different and less than 5% identical.<sup id="cite_ref-48" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Ziua_Independen%C8%9Bei_2016_01.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a6/Ziua_Independen%C8%9Bei_2016_01.jpg/250px-Ziua_Independen%C8%9Bei_2016_01.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a6/Ziua_Independen%C8%9Bei_2016_01.jpg/330px-Ziua_Independen%C8%9Bei_2016_01.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a6/Ziua_Independen%C8%9Bei_2016_01.jpg/500px-Ziua_Independen%C8%9Bei_2016_01.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2000" data-file-height="1333" /></a><figcaption>People wearing traditional Moldovan costumes in <a href="/wiki/Chi%C8%99in%C4%83u" title="Chișinău">Chișinău</a></figcaption></figure> <p>A poll conducted in the Republic of Moldova by IMAS-Inc <a href="/wiki/Chi%C8%99in%C4%83u" title="Chișinău">Chișinău</a> in October 2009 presented a more detailed picture. The respondents were asked to rate the relationship between the Romanian and Moldovan identities on a scale between 1 (<i>entirely the same</i>) to 5 (<i>completely different</i>). The poll showed that 26% of the entire sample, which included all ethnic groups, claimed the two identities were the same or very similar, whereas 47% claimed they were different or entirely different. </p><p>The results varied significantly among different categories of subjects. For instance, while 33% of the young respondents (ages from 18 to 29 years) chose the same or very similar and 44% different or very different, among the senior respondents (aged over 60 years) the corresponding figures were 18.5% and 53%. The proportion of those who chose the same or very similar identity was higher than the average among the native speakers of Romanian/Moldovan (30%), among the urban dwellers (30%), among those with higher education (36%), and among the residents of the capital city (42%).<sup id="cite_ref-49" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>According to a 2020 <a href="/wiki/OSCE" class="mw-redirect" title="OSCE">OSCE</a>-sponsored study, among the population of Moldova, 20% of ethnic Moldovans secondarily identified as Romanians, while 68% of ethnic Romanians secondarily identified as Moldovans. When asked about their mother tongue, among ethnic Moldovans 69% identified it as Moldovan, 34% as Romanian, and 7% as Russian (multiple answers were allowed). The study indicated ethnic Moldovans are highly endogamous, with 87% reporting a spouse of the same ethnic groups; in contrast, 50% of the Romanians indicated a Moldovan spouse. While 91% of the ethnic Moldovans reported having Moldavian parents of either sex, among ethnic Romanians 52% indicated having a Moldovan mother (as opposed to 45% having a Romanian one), while 49% indicated having a Moldovan father (as opposed to 50% having a Romanian one).<sup id="cite_ref-50" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Also the major Moldovan political forces have diverging opinions regarding the identity of Moldovans. This contradiction is reflected in their stance towards the national history that should be taught in schools. Governing forces such as the <a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_(Moldova)" title="Liberal Party (Moldova)">Liberal Party</a>, <a href="/wiki/Liberal_Democratic_Party_of_Moldova" title="Liberal Democratic Party of Moldova">Liberal Democratic Party</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Our_Moldova_Alliance" title="Our Moldova Alliance">Our Moldova Alliance</a> support the teaching of the history of Romanians. Others, such as the <a href="/wiki/Democratic_Party_(Moldova)" class="mw-redirect" title="Democratic Party (Moldova)">Democratic Party</a> and the Party of Communists support the history of the Republic of Moldova.<sup id="cite_ref-51" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-52" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-53" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-53"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-54" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-54"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The diverging opinions are also reflected in the official state documents issued in successive legislatures. The Declaration of Independence of 1991 calls the official language "Romanian",<sup id="cite_ref-55" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-55"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>55<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and the first anthem adopted by the independent Republic of Moldova was "<a href="/wiki/De%C5%9Fteapt%C4%83-te,_rom%C3%A2ne" class="mw-redirect" title="Deşteaptă-te, române">Deşteaptă-te, române</a>" ("Awaken thee, Romanian!"), the same as the anthem of <a href="/wiki/Romania" title="Romania">Romania</a>. </p><p>Mirroring different political configurations of the later <a href="/wiki/Moldovan_Parliament" class="mw-redirect" title="Moldovan Parliament">Moldovan Parliament</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Constitution_of_Moldova_(1994)" title="Constitution of Moldova (1994)">Constitution of Moldova (1994)</a> calls the official language "Moldovan",<sup id="cite_ref-56" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-56"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>56<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> while the "Concept of the National Policy of the Republic of Moldova" (2003)<sup id="cite_ref-57" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-57"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>57<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-58" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-58"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>58<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> adopted by the Communist-dominated Parliament distinguishes explicitly Moldovans and Romanians as ethnic groups, and so does the <a href="/wiki/Moldovan_Census_(2004)" class="mw-redirect" title="Moldovan Census (2004)">census of 2004</a>. </p><p>On December 5, 2013, the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Moldova ruled that the Romanian language is the official language of this country, in agreement with the Declaration of Independence of 1991.<sup id="cite_ref-59" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-59"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>59<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-60" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-60"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>60<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Intellectuals_of_Bessarabia_and_the_Romanian_identity">Intellectuals of Bessarabia and the Romanian identity</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Moldovans&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Intellectuals of Bessarabia and the Romanian identity"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>A significant number of intellectuals from Bessarabia considered themselves part of the Romanian nation in the passing of time. Amongst these prominent figures, there are the following ones: </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Alexei_Mateevici" title="Alexei Mateevici">Alexei Mateevici</a> (1888–1917), author of the Moldovan national anthem <i><a href="/wiki/Limba_noastr%C4%83" title="Limba noastră">Limba noastră</a></i> said at a congress of Bessarabian teachers in 1917: "Yes, we are Moldovans, sons of the old Moldavia, but we belong to the large body of the Romanian nation, that lives in Romania, Bukovina and Transylvania. Our brothers from Bukovina, Transylvania and Macedonia don't call themselves after the places they live in, but call themselves Romanians. That is what we should do as well!".<sup id="cite_ref-61" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-61"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>61<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Emanoil_Catelli" title="Emanoil Catelli">Emanoil Catelli</a> (1883–1943), a politician of the <a href="/wiki/Moldavian_Democratic_Republic" title="Moldavian Democratic Republic">Moldavian Democratic Republic</a>, and later of <a href="/wiki/Romania" title="Romania">Romania</a>, said in 1917: "The Moldovans who remained silent for 106 years, should speak louder today [...] because they are Romanians, and only the Russians demoted them to the role of 'Moldovans' ".<sup id="cite_ref-62" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-62"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>62<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maria_Cebotari" title="Maria Cebotari">Maria Cebotari</a> (1910–1949), one of the most famous sopranos born in <a href="/wiki/Bessarabia" title="Bessarabia">Bessarabia</a> said: "Never and in no circumstance has it crossed my mind to say that I am anything else than a Romanian from Bessarabia, or, simply, a Romanian".<sup id="cite_ref-63" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-63"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>63<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Grigore_Vieru" title="Grigore Vieru">Grigore Vieru</a> (1935–2009), prominent Moldovan poet, a staunch supporter of Pan-Romanianism, wrote: "Moldovans hurt me too/Inhumanly/But I'm happy that Romanianness/Still lives in them" (Bessarabia with Sorrow).<sup id="cite_ref-64" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-64"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>64<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eugen_Doga" title="Eugen Doga">Eugen Doga</a> (born 1937), a famous Moldovan composer, explained in an interview his visit to <a href="/wiki/Alba-Iulia" class="mw-redirect" title="Alba-Iulia">Alba-Iulia</a>, Romania: "This is the capital of the union, a real Mecca [...]. I think people come here not forced, but freely, for a return to their brothers".<sup id="cite_ref-65" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-65"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>65<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-66" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-66"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>66<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gheorghe_Duca" title="Gheorghe Duca">Gheorghe Duca</a> (born 1952), president of the <a href="/wiki/Moldovan_Academy_of_Sciences" class="mw-redirect" title="Moldovan Academy of Sciences">Moldovan Academy of Sciences</a> said: "Just like the whole Romanian nation, that Grigore Vieru praised, I cannot believe the Poet left home forever".<sup id="cite_ref-67" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-67"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>67<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Constantin_T%C4%83nase_(journalist)" title="Constantin Tănase (journalist)">Constantin Tănase</a> (born 1949), director of the Moldovan newspaper <i><a href="/wiki/Timpul_de_diminea%C8%9B%C4%83" title="Timpul de dimineață">Timpul de dimineață</a></i>, one of the most influential opinion leaders from Moldova<sup id="cite_ref-68" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-68"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>68<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-69" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-69"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>69<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> stated: "The academia, the political and cultural elite has to show that Romanianness in the Republic of Moldova is not an extremist whim, but a reality and a condition of the existence of this state".<sup id="cite_ref-70" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-70"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>70<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <p>The resolution of the "<a href="/w/index.php?title=Association_of_Historians_from_the_Republic_of_Moldova&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Association of Historians from the Republic of Moldova (page does not exist)">Association of Historians from the Republic of Moldova</a>" (AIRM) from October 28, 2009 in favor of teaching the history of Romanians in Moldovan schools reads "The people of the Moldovan SSR were subjected to the Communist ideology, with the aim of replacing the Romanian identity of the native population, with one newly created".<sup id="cite_ref-71" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-71"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>71<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The welcome message of the <a href="/wiki/Union_of_Writers_from_Moldova" class="mw-redirect" title="Union of Writers from Moldova">Union of Writers from Moldova</a> is a quote from <a href="/wiki/Mircea_Eliade" title="Mircea Eliade">Mircea Eliade</a>: "We invite you to become initiated in the literary life of Bessarabia, border Romanian land subjected to a long, too long terror of history".<sup id="cite_ref-72" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-72"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>72<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The national poet of Moldova and Romania, <a href="/wiki/Mihai_Eminescu" title="Mihai Eminescu">Mihai Eminescu</a> was born and lived outside of the territory of the current Republic of Moldova and considered himself Romanian. He is often quoted as saying <i>We are Romanians, period. (Suntem români şi punct)</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-73" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-73"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>73<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Demographics">Demographics</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Moldovans&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Demographics"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The <a href="/wiki/2014_Moldovan_Census" class="mw-redirect" title="2014 Moldovan Census">2014 census</a> reported an estimated 2,998,235 people (without <a href="/wiki/Transnistria" title="Transnistria">Transnistria</a>), out of which 2,804,801 were actually covered by the census. Among them, 2,068,068 or 73.7% declared themselves Moldovans and 192,800 or 6.9% Romanians.<sup id="cite_ref-74" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-74"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>74<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Some organisations like the <a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_(Moldova)" title="Liberal Party (Moldova)">Liberal party of Moldova</a> have criticised the census results, claiming Romanians comprise 85% of the population and that census officials have pressured respondents to declare themselves Moldovans instead of Romanians and have purposefully failed to cover urban respondents who are more likely to declare themselves Romanians as opposed to Moldovans.<sup id="cite_ref-75" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-75"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>75<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/2004_Moldovan_Census" class="mw-redirect" title="2004 Moldovan Census">previous 2004 census</a> results reported that out of the 3,383,332 people living in Moldova (without <a href="/wiki/Transnistria" title="Transnistria">Transnistria</a>), 2,564,849 or 75.81% declared themselves Moldovans and only 73,276 or 2.17% Romanians.<sup id="cite_ref-mold-census_76-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-mold-census-76"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>76<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A group of international observers considered the census was generally conducted in a professional manner, although they reported several cases when enumerators encouraged respondents to declare themselves Moldovans rather than Romanians.<sup id="cite_ref-77" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-77"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>77<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-78" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-78"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>78<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Ukrainian_Census_(2001)" class="mw-redirect" title="Ukrainian Census (2001)">2001 census in Ukraine</a> counted 258,600 Moldovans and 150,989 Romanians. The self-identified Moldovans live mostly in the southern and northern areas of historical Bessarabia (specifically in the <a href="/wiki/Budjak" title="Budjak">Budjak</a> region of <a href="/wiki/Odesa_Oblast" title="Odesa Oblast">Odesa Oblast</a> and in <a href="/wiki/Novoselytsia_Raion" title="Novoselytsia Raion">Novoselytsia Raion</a> of <a href="/wiki/Chernivtsi_Oblast" title="Chernivtsi Oblast">Chernivtsi Oblast</a>), whereas the self-identified Romanians live mostly in Northern Bukovina and <a href="/wiki/Hertsa_region" title="Hertsa region">Hertsa region</a> of <a href="/wiki/Chernivtsi_Oblast" title="Chernivtsi Oblast">Chernivtsi Oblast</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-ukr-census_79-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ukr-census-79"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>79<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In <a href="/wiki/Russia" title="Russia">Russia</a>, 156,400 Moldovans have been counted in the <a href="/wiki/Russian_Census_(2010)" class="mw-redirect" title="Russian Census (2010)">2010 Russian census</a>. They are concentrated mostly in <a href="/wiki/Moscow" title="Moscow">Moscow</a>, but also in some rural areas in <a href="/wiki/Kuban" title="Kuban">Kuban</a>, southern <a href="/wiki/Siberia" title="Siberia">Siberia</a>, and the <a href="/wiki/Russian_Far_East" title="Russian Far East">Russian Far East</a>, where they migrated or were deported generations ago. Around 14,000 Moldovans live in <a href="/wiki/Kazakhstan" title="Kazakhstan">Kazakhstan</a>, mostly in the former capital <a href="/wiki/Almaty" title="Almaty">Almaty</a>, but also in some rural areas in the northern parts of the country. </p> <ul class="gallery mw-gallery-traditional center"> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Russia_ethnic.JPG" class="mw-file-description" title="Late 19th century French ethnic map of European Russia, highlighting the Romanians of Bessarabia Governorate in green"><img alt="Late 19th century French ethnic map of European Russia, highlighting the Romanians of Bessarabia Governorate in green" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7e/Russia_ethnic.JPG/97px-Russia_ethnic.JPG" decoding="async" width="97" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7e/Russia_ethnic.JPG/146px-Russia_ethnic.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7e/Russia_ethnic.JPG/195px-Russia_ethnic.JPG 2x" data-file-width="1017" data-file-height="1253" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Late 19th century French ethnic map of European Russia, highlighting the Romanians of <a href="/wiki/Bessarabia_Governorate" title="Bessarabia Governorate">Bessarabia Governorate</a> in green</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Major_ethnics_groups_in_Moldova_1989.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Major ethnic groups in MSSR in 1989"><img alt="Major ethnic groups in MSSR in 1989" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bb/Major_ethnics_groups_in_Moldova_1989.jpg/120px-Major_ethnics_groups_in_Moldova_1989.jpg" decoding="async" width="97" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bb/Major_ethnics_groups_in_Moldova_1989.jpg/250px-Major_ethnics_groups_in_Moldova_1989.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="1035" data-file-height="1276" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Major ethnic groups in MSSR in 1989</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Harta_etnica_a_Rep._Moldova_-_2004.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Ethnic composition of the Republic of Moldova according to the 2004 census; self-reported Moldovans in blue/purple"><img alt="Ethnic composition of the Republic of Moldova according to the 2004 census; self-reported Moldovans in blue/purple" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a7/Harta_etnica_a_Rep._Moldova_-_2004.jpg/120px-Harta_etnica_a_Rep._Moldova_-_2004.jpg" decoding="async" width="103" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a7/Harta_etnica_a_Rep._Moldova_-_2004.jpg/250px-Harta_etnica_a_Rep._Moldova_-_2004.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="4383" data-file-height="5098" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Ethnic composition of the Republic of Moldova according to the 2004 census; self-reported Moldovans in blue/purple</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Ethnic_map_of_Chernivtsi_region_1980.png" class="mw-file-description" title="Ethnic divisions in Chernivtsi Oblast (Ukraine) with self-declared Moldovans in green and self-declared Romanians in blue (1980)"><img alt="Ethnic divisions in Chernivtsi Oblast (Ukraine) with self-declared Moldovans in green and self-declared Romanians in blue (1980)" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/eb/Ethnic_map_of_Chernivtsi_region_1980.png/120px-Ethnic_map_of_Chernivtsi_region_1980.png" decoding="async" width="120" height="58" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/eb/Ethnic_map_of_Chernivtsi_region_1980.png/180px-Ethnic_map_of_Chernivtsi_region_1980.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/eb/Ethnic_map_of_Chernivtsi_region_1980.png/240px-Ethnic_map_of_Chernivtsi_region_1980.png 2x" data-file-width="596" data-file-height="289" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Ethnic divisions in Chernivtsi Oblast (Ukraine) with self-declared Moldovans in green and self-declared Romanians in blue (1980)</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Bugeac-etnic.png" class="mw-file-description" title="Ethnic division of Budjak (Ukraine) with self-declared Moldovans in green (1989)"><img alt="Ethnic division of Budjak (Ukraine) with self-declared Moldovans in green (1989)" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c6/Bugeac-etnic.png/120px-Bugeac-etnic.png" decoding="async" width="120" height="103" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c6/Bugeac-etnic.png/250px-Bugeac-etnic.png 1.5x" data-file-width="571" data-file-height="490" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Ethnic division of Budjak (Ukraine) with self-declared Moldovans in green (1989)</div> </li> </ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Regional_identity_in_Romania">Regional identity in Romania</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Moldovans&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Regional identity in Romania"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The largest share (47.5%) of the territory of the historical <a href="/wiki/Moldavia" title="Moldavia">Principality of Moldavia</a> together with all its formal capitals (<a href="/wiki/Baia" title="Baia">Târgul Moldovei</a>, <a href="/wiki/Suceava" title="Suceava">Suceava</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Ia%C5%9Fi" class="mw-redirect" title="Iaşi">Iaşi</a>) and the famous <a href="/wiki/Painted_churches_of_northern_Moldavia" class="mw-redirect" title="Painted churches of northern Moldavia">painted churches</a> are located in Romania. The <a href="/wiki/Moldova_(river)" title="Moldova (river)">river Moldova</a> (possibly, the origin of the name of the Principality, see <i><a href="/wiki/Etymology_of_Moldova" class="mw-redirect" title="Etymology of Moldova">Etymology of Moldova</a></i>) now flows entirely through Romania. After the Russian annexation of <a href="/wiki/Bessarabia" title="Bessarabia">Bessarabia</a> in 1812, and Austrian annexation of <a href="/wiki/Bukovina" title="Bukovina">Bukovina</a> in 1775, the rest of Moldavia <a href="/wiki/Unification_of_Moldavia_and_Wallachia" title="Unification of Moldavia and Wallachia">united</a> in 1859 with <a href="/wiki/Wallachia" title="Wallachia">Wallachia</a> and formed the modern Romania. </p><p>According to the Romanian census of 2002, there are 4.7 million Romanian speakers in the eight counties that were once part of the Principality of Moldavia.<sup id="cite_ref-80" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-80"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>80<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The number of people, if any, who possibly declared themselves as Moldavians in this census is impossible to know, since "Moldavian" is officially considered a regional identity in Romania and respondents were recorded as "Romanians".<sup id="cite_ref-censushandbook_81-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-censushandbook-81"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>81<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Romanian-speaking inhabitants of these counties generally refer to themselves as "Moldavians", but declare Romanian ethnicity.<sup id="cite_ref-82" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-82"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>82<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1998, <a href="/wiki/Constantin_Simirad" title="Constantin Simirad">Constantin Simirad</a>, the former mayor of <a href="/wiki/Ia%C5%9Fi" class="mw-redirect" title="Iaşi">Iaşi</a> founded the Party of the Moldavians <i>(Partidul Moldovenilor)</i> which later joined the <a href="/wiki/Social_Democratic_Party_(Romania)" title="Social Democratic Party (Romania)">Social Democratic Party</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-83" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-83"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>83<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, the party's declared objective was to represent the interests of the <a href="/wiki/Western_Moldavia" title="Western Moldavia">Moldavia region</a> in Romania rather than any ethnic identification.<sup id="cite_ref-84" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-84"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>84<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In February 2007, a small group of Romanian citizens who created the "Moldovan/Moldavian Community in Romania" (Comunitatea moldovenilor din România) attempted unsuccessfully to gain recognition of the minority status for Moldovans from Romania. The organization was initially registered legally, but the decision was soon reverted. Around the same time, during a visit to <a href="/wiki/Moldova" title="Moldova">Moldova</a>, three delegates met with President <a href="/wiki/Vladimir_Voronin" title="Vladimir Voronin">Vladimir Voronin</a>, who promised them his support. Being denied legal recognition, the Community eventually dissolved.<sup id="cite_ref-85" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-85"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>85<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-86" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-86"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>86<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Religion_in_Moldova">Religion in Moldova</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Moldovans&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Religion in Moldova"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951" /><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main articles: <a href="/wiki/Metropolis_of_Chi%C8%99in%C4%83u_and_All_Moldova" title="Metropolis of Chișinău and All Moldova">Metropolis of Chișinău and All Moldova</a> and <a href="/wiki/Metropolis_of_Bessarabia" title="Metropolis of Bessarabia">Metropolis of Bessarabia</a></div> <p>The major <a href="/wiki/Christian_denomination" title="Christian denomination">denomination</a> in Moldova is <a href="/wiki/Eastern_Orthodox_Church" title="Eastern Orthodox Church">Eastern Orthodox Christianity</a>. The majority of Moldovan Orthodox Christians belong to the <a href="/wiki/Metropolis_of_Chi%C8%99in%C4%83u_and_All_Moldova" title="Metropolis of Chișinău and All Moldova">Moldovan Orthodox Church</a>, a branch of the <a href="/wiki/Russian_Orthodox_Church" title="Russian Orthodox Church">Russian Orthodox Church</a>, while a minority belongs to the <a href="/wiki/Metropolis_of_Bessarabia" title="Metropolis of Bessarabia">Metropolis of Bessarabia</a>, a branch of the <a href="/wiki/Romanian_Orthodox_Church" title="Romanian Orthodox Church">Romanian Orthodox Church</a>. Both bodies are in <a href="/wiki/Full_communion" title="Full communion">full communion</a>, the dispute between them being purely territorial and revolves around the legitimate succession of the interwar Metropolitan <a href="/wiki/Episcopal_see" title="Episcopal see">See</a> of Bessarabia. As of 2007, the Moldovan Orthodox Church has 1,255 parishes, while the Metropolis of Bessarabia has 219.<sup id="cite_ref-87" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-87"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>87<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Moldovans&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1266661725">.mw-parser-output .portalbox{padding:0;margin:0.5em 0;display:table;box-sizing:border-box;max-width:175px;list-style:none}.mw-parser-output .portalborder{border:1px solid var(--border-color-base,#a2a9b1);padding:0.1em;background:var(--background-color-neutral-subtle,#f8f9fa)}.mw-parser-output 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Editura <a href="/wiki/Polirom" title="Polirom">Polirom</a>, 2001. As Sorin Alexandrescu suggests, taking into account the situation at that time, the chaos in Russia and the undecided balance in the war, it is reasonable to suppose that the presence of Romanian troops in Bessarabia created a situation in which the majority in the Sfatul Tãrii decided to rally the faction that was advocating the union with Romania as a solution for overcoming of the triple threat of Bolshevism, Ukrainian expansionism and general anarchy.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-40"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-40">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Irina Livezeanu, <i>Cultural Politics in Greater Romania: Regionalism, Nation Building, and Ethnic Struggle, 1918–1930</i>. <a href="/wiki/Cornell_University_Press" title="Cornell University Press">Cornell University Press</a>, 2000, pp. 92-93.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-41"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-41">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Irina Livezeanu, <i>Cultural Politics in Greater Romania: Regionalism, Nation Building, and Ethnic Struggle, 1918–1930</i>. <a href="/wiki/Cornell_University_Press" title="Cornell University Press">Cornell University Press</a>, 2000, pp. 96-97.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-42"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-42">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Charles King, <i>The Moldovans: Romania, Russia, and the politics of culture</i>, Hoover Institution Press, Stanford 2000.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-43"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-43">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Cristina Petrescu, "Contrasting/Conflicting Identities: Bessarabians, Romanians, Moldovans", in: <i>Nation-Building and Contested identities: Romanian & Hungarian Case Studies</i>. Editura <a href="/wiki/Polirom" title="Polirom">Polirom</a>, 2001, p. 157: "The members of this overwhelmingly rural, mostly illiterate and quasi-immobile peasant population, who had no sense of national identification with the Romanians, but had idealized memories from the Tsarist period, found themselves overnight citizens of Romania. It was the transition from the Tsarist-type of local government to the Romanian-type of centralized modern state with a corrupt administration that alienated the Bessarabians, many of whom felt, as the interviewed persons bear witness, that they were rather occupied by their alleged brothers than united with them."</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-44"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-44">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Cristina Petrescu, "Contrasting/Conflicting Identities: Bessarabians, Romanians, Moldovans", in: <i>Nation-Building and Contested identities: Romanian & Hungarian Case Studies</i>, p. 154: "The stories told by a group of Bessarabians coming from several villages of Bălți county, who, it should be noted, chose to come to Romania instead of living under the Soviet regime, seems to suggest that their native region was the only province acquired after World War I where the Romanian central authorities did not succeed in integrating their own coethnics, among whom some even felt nostalgia for the Tsarist period. 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Aşa trebuie să facem şi noi!" Alexei Mateevici, Opere, vol. I, Chişinău, Ştiinţa, 1993, p. 463, după „Şcoala moldovenească”, an. 1, nr. 2 - 4, iulie-septembrie, 1917, p. 55 - 57.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-62"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-62">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20110722171755/http://www.literaturasiarta.md/pressview.php?l=ro&idc=115&id=730&zidc=1">"Literatura şi Arta"</a>. <i>Literaturasiarta.md</i>. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.literaturasiarta.md/pressview.php?l=ro&idc=115&id=730&zidc=1">the original</a> on 22 July 2011<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">2 August</span> 2017</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=Literaturasiarta.md&rft.atitle=Literatura+%C5%9Fi+Arta&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.literaturasiarta.md%2Fpressview.php%3Fl%3Dro%26idc%3D115%26id%3D730%26zidc%3D1&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMoldovans" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-63"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-63">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">(Romanian) „Niciodata si in nici o imprejurare nu mi-a trecut prin cap sa spun altceva decit ca sunt românca din Basarabia sau, pur si simplu, - românca.“ <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20110722171341/http://punkt.md/revista/citeste/articol/in_hac_habitasse_platea_dictumst///nb/1/nc/3.html">"Aria care a suparat-o pe Maria Biesu"</a>. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://punkt.md/revista/citeste/articol/in_hac_habitasse_platea_dictumst/">the original</a> on 2011-07-22<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">2010-04-14</span></span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Aria+care+a+suparat-o+pe+Maria+Biesu&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fpunkt.md%2Frevista%2Fciteste%2Farticol%2Fin_hac_habitasse_platea_dictumst%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMoldovans" class="Z3988"></span>//nb/1/nc/3.html</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-64"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-64">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">"In mine-au dat si moldovenii/Necrestineste/Ci-s fericit ca-n ei romanul/Tot mai traieste" (Basarabie cu jale).</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-65"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-65">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20110722151921/http://social.moldova.org/news/eugen-doga-alba-iulia-e-capitala-unirii-i-o-adevrat-mecca-205133-rom.html">"Eugen Doga: Alba Iulia e capitala unirii şi o adevărată Mecca"</a>. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://social.moldova.org/news/eugen-doga-alba-iulia-e-capitala-unirii-i-o-adevrat-mecca-205133-rom.html">the original</a> on 2011-07-22<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">2010-04-14</span></span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Eugen+Doga%3A+Alba+Iulia+e+capitala+unirii+%C5%9Fi+o+adev%C4%83rat%C4%83+Mecca&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fsocial.moldova.org%2Fnews%2Feugen-doga-alba-iulia-e-capitala-unirii-i-o-adevrat-mecca-205133-rom.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMoldovans" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-66"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-66">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Aici e capitala unirii şi o adevărată Mecca [...] Cred că lumea nu vine aici cu forţa ci din propria iniţiativă, pentru o întoarcere la fraţi.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-67"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-67">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20110722151814/http://social.moldova.org/news/gheorghe-duca-nu-exista-loc-de-targ-privind-limba-romana-206104-rom.html">"La fel ca şi întreaga românime, pe care Grigore Vieru a glorificat-o, nu pot să cred nici eu că Poetul a plecat pentru totdeauna de-acasă"</a>. <i>Social.moldova.org</i>. 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