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Musaitu
Мусайту | |
|---|---|
 Musaitu house of culture | |
  Musaitu Location of Musaitu in Moldova | |
| Coordinates: 45°49′N 28°29′E / 45.817°N 28.483°E | |
| Country |  Moldova |
| District |  Taraclia District |
| Founded | 1770 |
| Government | |
| • Mayor | Zakhariy Fedorovich |
| Area | |
• Total | 9.77 km2 (3.77 sq mi) |
| Population | |
• Total | 554 |
| • Density | 56.7/km2 (147/sq mi) |
| Ethnicity (2024 census) | |
| • Ukrainians | 59.7% |
| • Moldovans | 17% |
| • other | 6.6% |
| Time zone | UTC+2 (EET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+3 (EEST) |
| Climate | Cfb |
Musaitu (Bulgarian: Мусайту) is a village in Taraclia District, Moldova.[2] According to the 2024 Moldovan census the village has 554 people, 331 (59.7%) of them being Ukrainians, 94 (17%) Moldovans and 45 (8.1%) Russians.[3] In the village, the Musaitu ravine is located, a geological and paleontological natural monument where fossils have been discovered.
History
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The village was first mentioned in 1529, initially called Tomot. The modern village was formed by veterans of the Russo-Turkish wars in 1770, each veteran was awarded with 15 decares of land in the village. In 1825 a church was built, located in the northwest corner of the village. By the end of the 19th century, construction of a parish school was completed and was opened in 1890.[4]
On the northwestern part of the village was the German colony of Paruşeni (German: Paruschowka) established in 1921 as a protestant daughter colony part of the Albota evangelical parish with 220 hectares of land. By 1939 the colony had a population of 180.[5][6]
In 1940 the village had around 1110 inhabitants. During World War II, an underground group of partisans was active in the village; they were part of a central group located in the city of Cahul[7]
References
[edit]- ↑ Results of Population and Housing Census in the Republic of Moldova in 2014: "Characteristics - Population (population by communes, religion, citizenship)" (XLS). National Bureau of Statistics of the Republic of Moldova. 2017. Retrieved 2017-05-01.
- ↑ Clasificatorul unităților administrativ-teritoriale al Republicii Moldova (CUATM) Archived 2019-05-08 at the Wayback Machine (in Romanian)
- ↑ https://statistica.gov.md/en/statistic_indicator_details/60 Final Results of the Population and Housing Census 2024 - Population and Housing Census 2024: Ethno-cultural Characteristics (in Romanian)
- ↑ https://ibn.idsi.md/sites/default/files/imag_file/p-145-155.pdf ИСТОРИЯ СЕЛА МУСАИТ - Мороз Людмила
- ↑ Mertens, Ulrich (2010). German-Russian handbook : a reference book for Russian German and German Russian history and culture with place listings of former German settlement areas. Germans from Russia Heritage Collection. p. 600. ISBN 978-1-891193-63-7.
- ↑ "Paruschowka". gov.genealogy.net. Retrieved 2026-06-05.
- ↑ "Мусаиту, района Тараклия". www.moldovenii.md. Retrieved 2026-06-04.
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