From: ns@csd.cri.dk (Nick Sandru)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.europe,soc.culture.romanian,talk.politics.soviet
Subject: Re: Ismail, Bolgrad, Cahul and Gagauzia
Date: 31 Aug 92 07:05:38 GMT
Organization: Computer Resources International A/S

sommar@enea.se (Erland Sommarskog) writes:

>Still, "Kagul" on my modern map looks suprisingly similar to "Cahul"
>and furthermore this city is called "Kahul" in my Austrian turn-of-
>century map.

Here is a list with the Romanian and Russian names of several cities.
I used the LaTeX notation for the Romanian specific characters.
I hope that this will prevent confusions in the future:

Russian name                       Romanian name
                          (ascii)                 (LaTeX)

Moldova:

Kishinev                  Chisinau                Chisin\u{a}u
Orgeev                    Orhei                   Orhei
Soroki                    Soroca                  Soroca
Kalarash                  Calarasi                C\u{a}l\u{a}ra\c{s}i
Kotovsk                   Hancesti                H\^{a}nce\c{s}ti
Beltzy                    Balti                   B\u{a}l\c{t}i
Ungeny                    Ungheni                 Ungheni
Bendery                   Tighina                 Tighina
Kagul                     Cahul                   Cahul
Bessarabska               Romanesti               Rom\^{a}ne\c{s}ti
Dnestr (river)            Nistru                  Nistru
Transdnestra (region)     Transnistria            Transnistria
Cities in Transnistria:
Dubossary                 Dubasari                Dub\u{a}sari
Tiraspol                  Tiraspol                Tiraspol
Slobodzeja                Slobozia                Slobozia

Ukraine - Odessa region (Southern Bessarabia):

Kilija                    Chilia                  Chilia
Belgorod-Dnestrovski      Cetatea Alba            Cetatea Alb\u{a}
Ismail                    Ismail                  Ismail
Bolgrad                   Bolgrad                 Bolgrad
Kunduk (lake)             Conduc                  Conduc

Ukraine - Chernovtzy region (Northern Bukovina and the Hotin district):

Chernovtzy                Cernauti                Cern\u{a}u\c{t}i
Gertza                    Herta                   Her\c{t}a
Hotin                     Hotin                   Hotin
Storozhinetz              Storojinet              Storojine\c{t}

>In any case, for the issue at hand we have some pieces of might-be
>Roumanian land, given the present-day political realities they fall
>in five parts which each should be regarded separately (although
>they should not be considered atomic), and for practical reasons 
>we need names to denote these areas. I prefer Northern Bukovina, 
>Transdniestra, Moldova proper, Gagauzia for four northernmost of 
>them.

The Northern Bukovina includes also most of the Hotin district
and the Herta area annexed from the Romanian province Moldova.

>For the fifth, which I originally called Southern Bessarabia in 
>lack of anything better, I can very well accept Ismail and Bolgrad. 
>(But many outsiders will not know what we are talking about). But 
>I refuse to bundle Cahul with Ismail and Bolgrad, since Cahul 
>obviously is in Moldova.

There is a tendency to bundle the three districts together due to the
fact that in 1856, after Russia lost the Crimean war, it was forced to
return these three districts to Moldavia, from which they had been
annexed in 1812 together with the rest of Bessarabia. In 1878 Russia
regained them after the 1877 - 1878 war against the Otoman empire. Romania
gained its independence by participating to this war on the Russian side
and got also Dobrogea - the region between the Danube and the Black Sea.

In 1918, after Bessarabia's union with Romania, the former Ismail and
Bolgrad districts were joined and formed the Chilia district. Cahul
was preserved in its former limits.

The present Southern Bessarabia includes the Chilia district, the south-
eastern corner of the Cahul district and most of the Cetatea Alba district.

>-- 
>Erland Sommarskog - ENEA Data, Stockholm - sommar@enea.se
>F|rst till kvarn f}r f|rst vankiva

Long Haired Nick

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