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  2. Controversy over ethnic and linguistic identity in Moldova

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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 ...

  3. 2018 unification declarations in Moldova and Romania

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    Between 6 and 9 August, the Congress of Teachers of Romania and Teachers of Romanian Ethnicity was held in Alba Iulia. On it participated hundreds of teachers from Moldova and Romania but also from the oblasts of Chernivtsi and Odesa in Ukraine and the Timok Valley in Serbia, which have substantial ethnic Romanian minorities. During the ...

  4. Unification of Moldova and Romania - Wikipedia

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    If Moldova decided to unite with Romania, the status of Gagauzia, a "national-territorial autonomous unit" of Moldova with three official languages (Romanian, Gagauz, and Russian), would be unclear. While the autonomy of Gagauzia is guaranteed by the Moldovan constitution and regulated by the 1994 Gagauz Autonomy Act, the laws of Romania do not ...

  5. Moldovans - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  6. Languages of Moldova - Wikipedia

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    The law speaks of a common Moldovan-Romanian linguistic identity. Until 1989 Moldova used the Cyrillic alphabet for writing a language that was, by that time, no different from standard Bucharest Romanian; in part of Moldova, the independent Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic, the old script is still used in schools and on street signs. Even ...

  7. Moldovenism - Wikipedia

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    Electoral speech by Mihail Garbuz [Wikidata] affirming Moldovan identity. Moldovenism is a term used to describe the political support and promotion of a Moldovan identity and culture, including a Moldovan language, independent from those of any other ethnic group, the Romanians in particular.

  8. Romani people in Moldova - Wikipedia

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    Romani people in Moldova are a minority ethnic group of Indo-Aryan origin. The Romani (/ ˈ r oʊ m ə n i / ROH-mə-nee or / ˈ r ɒ m ə n i / ROM-ə-nee; colloquially known as the Roma (sg.: Rom), traditionally lived a nomadic, itinerant lifestyle. Those resident in Moldova, now sedentary, are divided into ten ethnic subgroups. [1]

  9. Moldova–Romania relations - Wikipedia

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    The MoldovaRomania border is a fluvial boundary, following the course of the Prut and Danube. This is also part of the eastern border of the European Union, running from Criva in the North to Giurgiulești in the South. Moldova has access to the Danube for less than 500 metres, and Giurgiulești is the Moldovan port on the Danube river.