Complex sentence: Historically, Bessarabia contained a very large minority of non-Romanians, about 44 percent even in 1930, but its Romanian speakers clung to a "Moldavian" identity.
Split into simpler sentences: Historically, Bessarabia contained a very large minority of non-Romanians, about 44 percent even in 1930. Its Romanian-language speakers clung to a "Moldavian" identity.