Ukrainians of Romania
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45,835 (2021 census),[1] 51,703 (2011 census)[2] to 200,000 (unofficial estimate)[3] 109,871 Ukrainian-born refugees as of 2023[4] | |
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northern Romania, in areas close to the Ukrainian border | |
Languages | |
mainly Ukrainian and Romanian | |
Religion | |
Ukrainian Orthodox, Pentecostal, Greek-Catholic and very small numbers of Jews[5][6] and Muslims (mostly Tatars)[7] |
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The
Sizable populations of Ukrainians are also found in
A second group of Ukrainians in Romania live in the
During the interwar period, tens thousands of refugees from the
As an officially recognised ethnic minority, Ukrainians have
After 1989, a significant number of Ukrainian citizens (including ethnic Romanians/Moldovans from Ukraine) started immigrating to Romania (students, migrant workers, businesspeople, refugees). As of 2019, there are at least 18,000 Ukrainian-born people living in Romania, most of them living in large cities, such as Bucharest, Cluj-Napoca, or Timișoara.[18]
Around 600,000 Ukrainians have fled to Romania since the start of the Russo-Ukrainian War.[19]
Notable people
- Emil Bodnăraș - politician and army officer
- Ioan Dzițac - professor of mathematics and computer science
- Dmytro Hnatyuk - baritone opera singer
- Vasile Hutopilă - painter
- Mykhailo Mykhailyuk Ilkovych - poet, literary critic
- Simion Ismailciuc - sprint canoeist, won the Summer Olympics, two World Championships and three European Championships
- Olha Kobylianska - writer and feminist
- Anna Lesko - singer
- Ivan Pavlovich Maksimovich - Colonel of the UGA
- Miroslava Șandru - ethnographer and folklorist
See also
- Ukrainian diaspora
- Danubian Sich
- Pokuttia-Bukovina dialect
- Romanians in Ukraine
- Moldovans in Ukraine
- Rusyns of Romania
References
- ^ a b c "Primele date provizorii pentru Recensământul Populației și Locuințelor, runda 2021 (First Provisional Data for the Census of Population and Housing, around 2021)" (PDF) (in Romanian). pp. 11–14. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2022-12-30.
- ^ a b (in Romanian) "Comunicat de presă privind rezultatele provizorii ale Recensământului Populației și Locuințelor – 2011", at the 2011 census site; accessed February 2, 2012.
- ^ "Українська діаспора в Румунії".
- ^ "War in Ukraine: Which European countries host the most refugees?". 20 September 2023.
- ^ ""Mii de israelieni şi evrei ucraineni", evacuaţi din Ucraina prin România".
- ^ ""Acest război e o catastrofă pentru Europa" – DW – 19.08.2022". Deutsche Welle.
- ^ "Oficiali români și turci și refugiați musulmani din Ucraina, invitații Uniunii Democrate Turce din România la iftar". May 2022.
- ISBN 0-8133-3738-0
- ^ "Explore Census Data".
- ^ (in Romanian) Populația după etnie și religie, pe medii, at the 2002 Census official site; accessed January 4, 2010.
- ^ a b "Union of Ukrainians in Romania website". Archived from the original on December 30, 2008.
- ^ Calculated from statistics for the counties of Tulcea and Constanța from "Populația după etnie la recensămintele din perioada 1930–2002, pe judete" (PDF) (in Romanian). Guvernul României — Agenția Națională pentru Romi. pp. 5–6, 13–14. Retrieved 2007-05-02.
- ^ "Dobrudja". Encyclopedia of Ukraine. Retrieved December 21, 2006.
- ^ "Refugiaţi, emigranţi din URSS către România interbelică".
- ^ "Cum a gestionat România criza refugiaţilor din perioada interbelică. 100.000 de evrei, ruşi şi ucraineni s-au refugiat aici la începutul anilor '20". 29 September 2015.
- ^ "Refugiaţii evrei, din Ucraina sovietică în Basarabia română".
- ^ "ALEGERILE PARLAMENTARE din data de 06.12.2020 - Situaţia centralizării datelor din secțiile de votare (PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS of 06.12.2020 - The situation of the centralization of data from the polling stations)" (PDF) (in Romanian).
- ^ "Immigrant and emigrant populations country origin and destination". Migration Policy. 10 February 2014. Retrieved 26 March 2021.
- ^ "The network in Romania to help Ukrainian refugees". NPR.org. Retrieved 2022-04-26.