Taraclia district

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Taraclia district
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Basic data
Country Republic of Moldova
Capital Taraclia
surface 834 km²
Residents 37,357 (2014)
density 45 inhabitants per km²
founding 2003
ISO 3166-2 MD-TA
Website raiontaraclia.md (Russian)
politics
president Alexandru Garanovschi
Political party PCRM

Coordinates: 45 ° 55 '  N , 28 ° 35'  E

The Taraclia Rajon ( Bulgarian Тараклийски район / Taraklyjsky raion ; Russian Тараклийский район ) is a Rajon in the Republic of Moldova . The capital of the Rajons is Taraclia .

geography

The Rajon is located in the south of the country on the border with Ukraine . It is divided into a northern and a southern part. The Jalpuch River flows through the southern part from north to south .

The Taraclia Rajon borders within Moldova on the Gagauz Autonomous Region including two of its exclaves and on the Cahul Rajon .

history

The Taraclia Rajon has existed since 2003. Until February 2003, the area belonged to the now dissolved Cahul District (Județul Cahul) together with today's Cahul and Cantemir Rajons . As the center of the Bulgarian minority in Moldova, to which around 66% of the population belong, there are numerous Bulgarian cultural institutions and schools in the Taraclia district. Bulgarian is also one of the languages ​​of instruction at the Taraclia State University .

The regional authorities of Taraclias have been demanding more autonomy rights for their region for a long time. At the beginning of 2014 an association with the autonomous region of Gagauzia was also debated. According to the regional president Taraclias, numerous other, mostly Bulgarian-inhabited localities from other parts of Moldova have asked to join the Taraclia district. Independent of the central government in Moldova, the regional administration of the Rajons maintains separate relations with Russia. Taraclia is considered to be the bastion of pro-Russian political parties in Moldova. Due to dissatisfaction with the government in Chișinău , separatist tendencies have increased in the region in recent years.

population

Population development

In 1959 39,113 inhabitants lived in the area of ​​today's Rajons. The population rose to 43,953 by 1970 and remained almost constant at 43,213 until 1979. After that, the number of inhabitants rose to 47,966 in 1989. By 2004, as in the whole of Moldova, the population of the raion fell, which was 43,154 in that year. In 2014 it was 37,357.

Ethnic groups

Taraclia Rajon is one of the regions of Moldova with the highest proportion of national minorities; ethnic Moldovans make up only 13.9% of the population in the Taraclia Rajon. A special feature of the Rajon is the high proportion of Bulgarians who, according to the 2004 census, represent by far the largest ethnic group with 65.6%. Nationwide, only 1.9% of the population described themselves as Bulgarians. This means that more than half of all Moldovan Bulgarians live in Taraclia Rajon. Their settlement area is particularly concentrated in the northern part of the Rajon. Like the other ethnic group in southern Moldova, the Bulgarians speak predominantly Russian . The proportion of Bulgarians who stated Bulgarian as their mother tongue decreased from 91.5% in 1959 to 78.7% in 1989. Of these, 70% mentioned Russian as a second language and only 7% Romanian .

Other significant minorities in the Rajon are the Gagauz with 8.3%, the Ukrainians with 6.1% and the Russians with 5.0% of the population. The Russian language has a much stronger position in the multicultural Taraclia Rajon than in the rest of the country. Many Bulgarians mainly speak Russian, as do a large proportion of Ukrainians, Gagauz and Moldovans.

Web links

Commons : Taraclia Rajon  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b http://www.statistica.md/public/files/Recensamint/Recensamintul_populatiei/vol_1/1_Toate_recensaminteleRne_ro.xls
  2. ↑ http://gagauzinfo.md/index.php?newsid=11886
  3. ↑ http://gagauzinfo.md/index.php?newsid=12466
  4. ↑ http://www.refworld.org/docid/5301cd5d4.html
  5. ↑ http://www.paginaeuropeana.ro/bulgarii-din-republica-moldova-cer-autonomie-si-ameninta-chisinaul-cu-alipirea-la-gagauzia/
  6. ↑ Noile tendințe separatiste de primăvară: “Autonomia bulgară” in Moldova ( Memento of September 21, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  7. ^ Moldova: administrative structure (districts and municipalities) - population figures, graphics and map. Retrieved May 9, 2018 .
  8. ^ Charles King: The Moldovans. Romania, Russia, and the Politics of Culture. Hoover Institution Press, Stanford University, Stanford (CA) 2000, p. 175
  9. ↑ http://www.statistica.md/public/files/Recensamint/Recensamintul_populatiei/vol_1/6_Nationalitati_de_baza_ro.xls