Ștefan Vodă () is a city and the administrative centre of
Ștefan Vodă District
Ștefan Vodă () is a district () in the south-east of Moldova, with the administrative center at Ștefan Vodă.
As of 1 January 2011, its population was 71,900. The district is situated 100 km from Chișinău and 100 km from Odesa, Ukr ...
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Moldova
Moldova, officially the Republic of Moldova, is a Landlocked country, landlocked country in Eastern Europe, with an area of and population of 2.42 million. Moldova is bordered by Romania to the west and Ukraine to the north, east, and south. ...
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History
Ștefan Vodă appeared on a map of the region for the first time in 1884, and was then resettled in 1909 as a small
German colony. The town was formerly called ''Chizil/Kizil'', then ''Suvorovo'' (Суворовo) in Soviet times (until 22 May 1990).
Climate
Demographics
According to the
2014 census, the population of Ștefan Vodă amounted to 7,078 inhabitants, a decrease compared to the previous census in 2004, when 7,768 inhabitants were registered. Of these, 3,269 were men and 3,809 were women.
''Footnotes'':
* ''There is an
ongoing controversy regarding the ethnic identification of Moldovans and Romanians.''
* ''Moldovan language is one of the two local names for the
Romanian language
Romanian (obsolete spelling: Roumanian; , or , ) is the official and main language of Romania and Moldova. Romanian is part of the Eastern Romance languages, Eastern Romance sub-branch of Romance languages, a linguistic group that evolved fr ...
in Moldova. In 2013, the
Constitutional Court of Moldova
The Constitutional Court of the Republic of Moldova () represents the sole body of constitutional jurisdiction in the Moldova, Republic of Moldova, autonomous and independent from the executive, the legislature and the judiciary.
The task of the ...
interpreted that Article 13 of the constitution is superseded by the Declaration of Independence,
thus giving official status to the name ''Romanian''.
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See also
*
Bessarabia Germans
*
Vocea Basarabiei 103.8, a Romanian language radio station
References
External links
Cities and towns in Moldova
Cetatea Albă County
Ștefan Vodă District
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