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Moldova Emigration and Immigration (view source)
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Emigration and immigration sources list the names of people leaving (emigrating) or arriving (immigrating) in the country. These sources may be passenger lists, permissions to emigrate, or records of passports issued. The information in these records may include the emigrants’ names, ages, occupations, destinations, and places of origin or birthplaces. Sometimes they also show family groups. | Emigration and immigration sources list the names of people leaving (emigrating) or arriving (immigrating) in the country. These sources may be passenger lists, permissions to emigrate, or records of passports issued. The information in these records may include the emigrants’ names, ages, occupations, destinations, and places of origin or birthplaces. Sometimes they also show family groups. | ||
== | ==Historical Background== | ||
<ref>"Moldova", in Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moldova, accessed August 2021.</ref> | Most of Moldovan territory was a part of the '''Principality of Moldavia''' from the 14th century until 1812, when it was ceded to the '''Russian Empire''' by the Ottoman Empire and became known as '''Bessarabia'''. In 1856, southern Bessarabia was returned to Moldavia, which three years later '''united with Wallachia to form Romania''', but Russian rule was restored over the whole of the region in 1878. | ||
*During the 1917 Russian Revolution, Bessarabia briefly became an autonomous state within the Russian Republic, known as the '''Moldavian Democratic Republic'''. In February 1918, the Moldavian Democratic Republic declared independence and then '''integrated into Romania''' later that year following a vote of its assembly. The decision was disputed by Soviet Russia, which in 1924 established, within the Ukrainian SSR, a Moldavian autonomous republic (MASSR) on partially Moldovan-inhabited territories to the east of Bessarabia. | |||
*In 1940, as a consequence of the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, Romania was compelled to '''cede Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina to the Soviet Union''', leading to the creation of the '''Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic (Moldavian SSR)''', which included the greater part of Bessarabia and the westernmost strip of the former MASSR (east of the Dniester River). | |||
*On 27 August 1991, as the dissolution of the Soviet Union was underway, the Moldavian SSR declared independence and '''took the name Moldova'''.<ref>"Moldova", in Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moldova, accessed August 2021.</ref> | |||
==Emigration From Moldova== | ==Emigration From Moldova== | ||
'''KNOMAD Statistics:''' Emigrants: 859,400. Top destination countries: '''the Russian Federation, Ukraine, Italy, Romania, the United States, Germany, Portugal, Uzbekistan, Spain, Israel''' <ref>"Moldova", at KNOMAD, the Global Knowledge Partnership on Migration and Development, https://www.knomad.org/data/migration/emigration?page=15,accessed August 2021</ref> | '''KNOMAD Statistics:''' Emigrants: 859,400. Top destination countries: '''the Russian Federation, Ukraine, Italy, Romania, the United States, Germany, Portugal, Uzbekistan, Spain, Israel''' <ref>"Moldova", at KNOMAD, the Global Knowledge Partnership on Migration and Development, https://www.knomad.org/data/migration/emigration?page=15,accessed August 2021</ref> | ||