Moldova is a nation living in 5 countries. 2,742,000 people live in Moldova. 250,000 - in Ukraine. 175,000 - on transnistria. 160,000 people reside in the Russian Federation. 15,000 - Romania.
"Moldova" is a national name derived from the water name Molda (or "Moldova").
The moldovan formation area is the Moldova basin and the middle section of the Prutt-Transnistrian confluence zone.
1. The mountainous and hilly area of the Molda Basin, slowly turning into a valley between it and the Transnistrian River, was first inhabited by large humans about 1,000,000 years ago. Only 43,000 years ago, the Crognons appeared. The first Paleolithic culture associated with it was the Cellet complex. These sites were found in caves in the Carpathian Mountains. Descendants are recorded in the Mesolithic age (there are more C1 people).
2. The Neolithic (6–5,000 BC) of northeastern Carpathians is known for the Bug-Dniester culture: distant descendants of the Cro-Magnon tribe that initially dominated northern Europe came from the northeast. We're talking about the tall and massive Cro-Manoids (the first Nordids)...
3. Part of the "Bug-Transnistrian" transcends the Dnieper, where assimilators formed in 5000 BC by their remnants (who lived with the oldest indigenous peoples) met with guests from the West. Europe. Mediterranean-looking farmers of the mitochondrial group N1a. Scientists combined their material traditions into a linear belt pottery culture (elsewhere, people with this gene were destroyed by the invader R1b).
Artifacts found in a monument to the Bugodniestrian culture.
4. In the same year 5000 BC. Primitive people born from marriages in the aforementioned plots accepted another group of experienced peasants - from the Danube (Bojan culture). This is how the local version of the Neolithic Trypillia complex eventually formed.
5. The genes of ethnic communities formed as a result of such complex origins can be traced back to today's Romanians and Moldovans. Because the Indo-Europeans, the "Thracians", have been associated with the Bronze Age, although they brought with them traditions and languages (the so-called Cuban dialect), but in small numbers.
Not all identified Indo-Europeans are Thracians. Scientists believe that the carriers of the Budzak complex were independent hominids who joined the Scythians in the middle of the Iron Age (the same Herodotus "agathyrs"?). ）。
According to ancient chronicles, the Thracians in the northeastern Carpathians were the least similar to their relatives. Historians conditionally call them getto-Dacians, because in the future (during the period of Roman expansion into the lower Transnistria) they were already independent peoples.
Transylvania and the Molda Valley are known as Dacia Libera. Romanization did not reach here, and the Germanic tribes were already colonizers. It's about the Eastern Goths. The land of Moldova is located in the western part of Oum. Some Roksolans also live here (they will be called "yassy")...
Oium's warriors and their leader Germanic Narique. Reconstruction of one of the artists. From the author's archives
6. The country was defeated by the Huns, revived 200 years later (Gepid Kingdom), and then defeated by the Lombards. Finally, Vlachs began to live here. These were the Romanized Dacians and other indigenous peoples of the Carpathians ("carp").
7. But! Those who live in the Molda Basin and further afield in Transnistria still feel like an independent people. From the east, Rusyns are approaching them - Slavs, whose speech later became the main reason for the current difference in vocabulary between Romanian and Moldavian ...
This is what Getae and the "carp" look like– the direct ancestors of the Moldavians.
8. In the 12th and 14th centuries, moldavian lands referred both to the modern Romanian province of Moldavia and to moldova, which now borders it from the east. Behind the Transnistria River, the descendants of the Tivertsy Slavs have lived here since the 7th century.
Indigenous peoples realized themselves as a political unit, and in an era of strong leaders among them, they urged against identifying themselves with "provinces": Galicia-Warren, Vlaška and the Kingdom of Hungary. And do not become part of the tribes or Gagauzes living in the south (descendants of Yasses and assimilated their original Bulgarians). His name was Dragos. He was the Governor-General of the King of Hungary. He is a native (the concept of "Moldovan" also includes his hometown of Maramures).
These were the Rusyns (along with Getae, Carps, Vlachs of Molda, who "gave birth" to moldavians).
9. As a loyal military leader, he was granted the special status of king of the multinational Mazaria. furthermore. In the 15th century in Moldova, the ruler was the main hero of the country, the ruler Stefan Sermar. Without him, there would be no Moldavians.