Drochia, Drochia
Encyclopedia
Drochia is a commune in Drochia district, in the north of Moldova
. It is composed of a single village, Drochia (older name Drochia sat). At the 2004 census
, it had a population of 2,843.
At the 1930 census, the locality had a population of 2,269. It was part of Plasa
Climăuţi of Soroca County
.
Moldova
Moldova , officially the Republic of Moldova is a landlocked state in Eastern Europe, located between Romania to the West and Ukraine to the North, East and South. It declared itself an independent state with the same boundaries as the preceding Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic in 1991, as part...
. It is composed of a single village, Drochia (older name Drochia sat). At the 2004 census
2004 Moldovan Census
The 2004 Republic of Moldova Census was carried between October 5 and October 12, 2004. The breakaway Transnistria failed to come into an agreement with the central government in Chişinău, and carried out its own census during between November 11 and November 18, 2004...
, it had a population of 2,843.
At the 1930 census, the locality had a population of 2,269. It was part of Plasa
Plasa
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Climăuţi of Soroca County
Soroca County
Soroca was a county of Moldova. The seat was Soroca....
.
| Ethnic composition | |||
| Ethnic group | 1930 census | 2004 census | |
| Moldovans Moldovans Moldovans or Moldavians are the largest population group of Moldova... (Romanians Romanians The Romanians are an ethnic group native to Romania, who speak Romanian; they are the majority inhabitants of Romania.... ) |
2,174 | 2,792 | |
| Jews Bessarabian Jews -Early history:Jews are mentioned from very early in the Principality of Moldavia, but they did not represent a significant number. Their main activity in Moldavia was commerce, but they could not compete with Greeks and Armenians, who had the knowledge of the Levantine commerce and relationships... |
56 | - | |
| Gypsies | 5 | 33 | |
| Russians Russians The Russian people are an East Slavic ethnic group native to Russia, speaking the Russian language and primarily living in Russia and neighboring countries.... |
29 | 8 | |
| Ruthenians Ruthenians The name Ruthenian |Rus']]) is a culturally loaded term and has different meanings according to the context in which it is used. Initially, it was the ethnonym used for the East Slavic peoples who lived in Rus'. Later it was used predominantly for Ukrainians... (Ukrainians Ukrainians Ukrainians are an East Slavic ethnic group native to Ukraine, which is the sixth-largest nation in Europe. The Constitution of Ukraine applies the term 'Ukrainians' to all its citizens... ) |
- | 7 | |
| Poles Poles thumb|right|180px|The state flag of [[Poland]] as used by Polish government and diplomatic authoritiesThe Polish people, or Poles , are a nation indigenous to Poland. They are united by the Polish language, which belongs to the historical Lechitic subgroup of West Slavic languages of Central Europe... |
5 | - | |
| Gagauzians | - | 1 | |
| others | - | 2 | |
| Total | 2,269 | 2,843 | |
| Native language | ||
| Language | 1930 census | 2004 census |
| Romanian Romanian language Romanian Romanian Romanian (or Daco-Romanian; obsolete spellings Rumanian, Roumanian; self-designation: română, limba română ("the Romanian language") or românește (lit. "in Romanian") is a Romance language spoken by around 24 to 28 million people, primarily in Romania and Moldova... |
2,180 | N/A |
| Yiddish | 56 | N/A |
| Russian Russian language Russian is a Slavic language used primarily in Russia, Belarus, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan. It is an unofficial but widely spoken language in Ukraine, Moldova, Latvia, Turkmenistan and Estonia and, to a lesser extent, the other countries that were once constituent republics... |
33 | N/A |
| Ukrainian Ukrainian language Ukrainian is a language of the East Slavic subgroup of the Slavic languages. It is the official state language of Ukraine. Written Ukrainian uses a variant of the Cyrillic alphabet.... |
- | N/A |
| other | - | N/A |
| Total | 2,269 | 2,843 |