duminică, 4 mai 2008

hutsul - rusyn zone of north romania


i used official data of the romanian census of 2002 to calculate the number of hutsuls and rusyns in northern romania. there is a compact zone of 23 comune (administrative center of a number of villages) and one town with significant ukrainian population (in romania both hutsuls and rusyns are included to ukrainians in statistics).

keep in mind that i considered only the locations in the ukrainian compact area in which you will find only places historically belonging to the hutsul or rusyn ethnics.
so, i didn't considered other villages, even if they are inhabited by rusyns, because they are surrounded by villages and towns of romanian ethnics.

also keep in mind that these are the official numbers, and not the exact reality on the field. many hutsuls, rusyns and other ethnics declare themselves romanians, even if some of them still speak their language in family or in the community. i will give the most eloquent example: breaza, where they all declared themselves romanians, but actually they are hutsuls. if you'll go to breaza, you'll hear spoken only the hutsul dialect. i won't treat here the reasons of not declaring yourself what you are. it was just an example to show that the number of hutsuls and rusyns has to be much larger in reality; maybe even double.

these are the numbers for what i call the ukrainian compact area of northwest suceava county and north maramureş county:

total population: 139,514
(88,561 romanians; 37,426 ucrainians; 10,286 hungarians...)


the hutsul zone of suceava county
(totally 23,664: 19,352 romanians; 3.939 ucrainians; 280 germans...)

izvoarele sucevei - 2,279 (1,177 ucrainians; 1,102 romanians)

moldova suliţa - 2,084 (1,855 romanians; 164 ucrainians; 63 roma; 1 german; 1 lipovan russian)

breaza - 1,690 (1,690 de romanians)

cîrlibaba - 1,981 (1,690 romanians; 178 germans; 106 ucrainians; 5 hungarians; 1 pole; 1 undeclared)

ulma - 2,289 (1,343 ucrainians; 946 romanians)

brodina - 3,661 (3,219 romanians; 418 ucrainians; 18 germans; 1 hungarian; 1 jew; 1 pole; 1 armenian; 2 undeclared)

moldoviţa - 5,021 (4,763 romanians; 209 ucrainians; 37 germans; 5 poles; 4 slovaks; 1 turk; 1 jew; 1 undeclared)

vatra moldoviţei - 4,659 (4,087 romanians; 522 ucrainians; 46 germans; 1 pole; 3 undeclared)


the hutsul zone of maramureş county
(totally 52,129 - 26,220 romanians; 23,239 ucrainians; 611 hungarians...)

poienile de sub munte - 10,033 (9,696 ucrainians; 256 romanians; 61 hungarians; 5 armenians; 8 germans; 2 lipovan russians; 2 roma; 1 tatar; 1 serbian; 1 jew)

repedea - 4,761 (4,650 ucrainians; 87 romanians; 15 roma; 7 hungarians)

bistra - 4,423 (4,021 ucrainians; 399 romanians; 3 hungarians)

ruscova - 4,854 (4,578 ucrainians; 161 romanians; 109 roma; 3 hungarians; 3 germans)

petrova - 2,693 (2,658 romanians; 24 roma; 7 ucrainians; 4 hungarians)

leordina - 2,593 (2,584 romanians; 7 ucrainians; 1 hungarian; 1 turk)

vişeu de sus - 16,879 (14,878 romanians; 1,114 germans; 530 hungarians; 274 ucrainians; 70 roma; 3 italians; 2 poles; 1 armenian; 1 lipovan russian; 6 undeclared)

vişeu de jos - 5,282 (5,197 romanians; 75 roma; 6 ucrainians; 2 hungarians; 1 german; 1 undeclared)


the rusyn zone of maramureş county
(totally 63,721 - 42,989 romanians; 10,248 ucrainians; 9,669 hungarians...)

rona de sus - 4.698 (4.062 ucrainians; 421 hungarians; 207 romanians; 5 germans; 1 slovak; 2 undeclared)

rona de jos - 2.110 (2.069 romanians; 21 roma; 18 ucrainians; 2 hungarians)

bocicoiu mare - 4.468 (2.639 ucrainians; 1.447 romanians; 371 hungarians; 5 germans; 1 rom; 5 undeclared)

sighetu marmaţiei - 41,220 (32.867 romanians; 6.513 hungarians; 1.226 ucrainians; 448 roma; 105 germans; 20 jews; 8 italians; 3 serbians; 2 turks; 2 lipovan russians; 2 armenians; 1 slovak; 1 czech; 1 greek; 1 pole; 1 csango; 17 undeclared)

cîmpulung la tisa - 2.484 (1.964 hungarians; 425 romanians; 67 roma; 23 ucrainians; 3 germans; 2 lipovan russians)

săpînţa - 3.267 (3.240 romanians; 17 roma; 8 ucrainians; 2 hungarians)

sarasău - 2.416 (2.335 romanians; 52 roma; 14 hungarians; 12 ucrainians; 2 germans; 1 pole)

remeţi - 3.058 (2.260 ucrainians; 399 romanians; 382 hungarians; 14 roma; 3 germans)