Molodiia (, ) is a village in
Chernivtsi Raion
Chernivtsi Raion () is a raion (district) of Chernivtsi Oblast, Ukraine. It was created on 18 July 2020 as part of the reform of administrative divisions of Ukraine. Most of its territory is located in the historical region of Bukovina, while the ...
,
Chernivtsi Oblast
Chernivtsi Oblast (), also referred to as Chernivechchyna (), is an oblast (province) in western Ukraine, consisting of the northern parts of the historical regions of Bukovina and Bessarabia. It has an international border with Romania and Moldo ...
(
province
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) of western
Ukraine
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. It is composed of a single village, Molodiia. This was first officially attested in a document dated 1486. It belongs to
Chahor rural hromada
Chahor (; ) is a village in Chernivtsi Raion, Chernivtsi Oblast, Ukraine. It hosts the administration of Chahor rural hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine.
Until 18 July 2020, Chahor belonged to Hlyboka Raion. The raion was abolished in July 2 ...
, one of the
hromada
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s of Ukraine.
History
Until 18 July 2020, Molodiia belonged to
Hlyboka Raion
Hlyboka Raion (, ) is a former administrative district of Chernivtsi Oblast located in the historical regions of Bukovina and Hertsa, in western Ukraine. The administrative center was the urban-type settlement of Hlyboka. There were 37 village ...
. The raion was abolished in July 2020 as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced the number of raions of Chernivtsi Oblast to three. The area of Hlyboka Raion was merged into Chernivtsi Raion. In 2001, 55.52% of the 3,822 inhabitants of Molodiia spoke Romanian, or 2,122 people (48.06%, or 1,837 people, self-identified it as Moldovan and 7.46%, or 285 people, as Romanian) as their native language, while 43.54% (or 1,664 people) spoke Ukrainian. In 1992-1993, the school students at the local Ukrainian-language school, the only one in the locality, included 22.96% Ukrainians, 58.5% Romanians, and 17.35% Moldovans. In 1989, the population was 30.74% ethnically Ukrainian, 5.72% self-identified ethnically Romanian, and 61.96% self-identified ethnically Moldovan. The data suggests that the increase in the proportion of self-identified ethnic Romanians and self-identified Romanian speakers at the expense of the self-identified Moldovans and self-identified Moldovan-speakers was more common among the younger generation.
[Ion Popescu and Constantin Ungureanu, ''Romanii din Ucraina - intre trecut si viitor'', vol. 1 (''Romanii din Regiunea Cernauti''), Cernauti, 2005, p. 257. The village is listed by the two authors as one of the localities in which this process has occurred.]
Population
*1930 — 3960
*1989 — 3741
*2007 — 3847
References
External links
Official web-site of Molodiya's secondary school
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Villages in Chernivtsi Raion
Historic Jewish communities in Ukraine