Clit () is a village in

Arbore Arbore () is a commune located in Suceava County, Bukovina, northeastern Romania. It is composed of three villages: namely Arbore, Bodnăreni, and Clit. The commune is located in the central-north part of the county, northwest of the county s ...

, Suceava, Bukovina, Romania. The village's name originates from the Ukrainian word , meaning stack or pile, because fugitives from Galicia called their houses that.

History

Before

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was annexed to the

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in 1775, there was a settlement made up of several families located around west of

Solca Solca (; ; ) is a town in Suceava County, northeastern Romania. It is situated in the historical region of Bukovina. Solca is the smallest town in the county and the third-smallest town in Romania, with a population of 2,405 inhabitants, accordin ...

near the Slatina forest. Most of the people in this settlement were

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Romanians from

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, fleeing religious persecution by Roman Catholics. The permanent settlement of Clit began in the 19th century, when Austria brought in German colonists who settled on a nearby hill named in 1835. They named their settlement . The people from Slatina then moved to more favorable areas near the German colonists. In a 1907 report by Austria-Hungary, the total population of Clit, then located in Gurahumora, was given as 1,216, 610 male and 606 female. 598 spoke

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, 497 spoke Ruthenian, 116 spoke

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, and 4 spoke some other language.

Surroundings

The village is surrounded by natural features, such as the plateau and Secului Hill, located opposite the Havriș and Slatina forests. On Secului Hill, there is another forest called Bahna, which the locals take pride in because

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have not yet managed to discover it. Clit is also crossed by three rivers:

Iaslovăț Iaslovăț () is a Commune in Romania, commune located in Suceava County, Romania. It is composed of a single village, Iaslovăț. This became part of the then-commune of Milișăuți in 1968. It remained so until 2002, when it was split off. The ...

, Saca, and Clit, which eventually flow into the Suceava river.

Demographics

According to the 2002 Romanian census, the village had a population of 1,325. 1,115 were

, 142 were Ukrainian, 55 were

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, and 12 were

. 1,167 spoke Romanian, 136 spoke Ukrainian, 11 spoke

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, and 11 spoke German.

References

{{reflist Populated places in Suceava County Localities in Southern Bukovina