Tarasivtsi

Tarasivtsi Тарасівці Tărăsauți
Village
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Coordinates: 48°12′10″N 26°22′2″E
Country	Ukraine
Oblast	Chernivtsi Oblast
Raion	Chernivtsi Raion
Elevation	127 m (417 ft)
Population  (2012)[1]
• Total	5,000
Time zone	UTC+2 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+3 (CEST)

Tarasivtsi (Romanian: Tărăsăuți; Ukrainian: Тарасівці; Russian: Тарасовцы) is a village in Chernivtsi Raion, Chernivtsi Oblast, Ukraine. It belongs to Vanchykivtsi rural hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine.[2] The population of the village is more than 5,000 people, of which 95% are ethnic Romanians and Moldovans.[3]

Tarasivtsi (Tărăsauți) is located next to the Romanian border. The river Prut flows through the village.[4]

History

Historical affiliations

 Moldavia 1473–1812
 Russian Empire 1812–1917
 Moldavian Democratic Republic 1917–1918
 Kingdom of Romania 1918–1940
 Soviet Union (Ukrainian SSR) 1940–1941
 Kingdom of Romania 1941–1944
 Soviet Union (Ukrainian SSR) 1944–1991
 Ukraine 1991–present

Until 18 July 2020, Tarasivtsi belonged to Novoselytsia Raion. The raion was abolished in July 2020 as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced the number of raions of Chernivtsi Oblast to three. The area of Novoselytsia Raion was split between Chernivtsi and Dnistrovskyi Raions, with Tarasivtsi being transferred to Chernivtsi Raion.[5][6]

Tarasivtsi was notable as the only place in Ukraine where the Romanian language had been designated as a regional language. This occurred after Ukraine permitted regional languages to be designated in August 2012. The Constitutional Court of Ukraine on 28 February 2018 ruled this legislation unconstitutional.[7]

Demographics

At the 2001 Ukrainian census, 97.43% of inhabitants spoke Romanian as their native language, while 1.86% spoke Ukrainian.[8]

Notable people

• Anatoly Tikhai, hieromonk
• Yakov Tikhai, composer

References

1. https://bukportret.info/novoselitskiy-rayon/tarasivtsi/istoriya-tarasivtsi/
2. "Ванчиковецкая громада" (in Russian). Портал об'єднаних громад України.
3. В одному з сіл Буковини румунська стала регіональною^[permanent dead link‍]
4. "Popov: No bilingualism in Kyiv", Kyiv Post, September 19, 2012
5. "Про утворення та ліквідацію районів. Постанова Верховної Ради України № 807-ІХ". Голос України (in Ukrainian). 2020-07-18. Retrieved 2020-10-03.
6. "Нові райони: карти + склад" (in Ukrainian). Міністерство розвитку громад та територій України.
7. "Constitutional Court declares unconstitutional language law of Kivalov-Kolesnichenko". Ukrinform. 28 February 2018. Retrieved 2019-05-04.
8. The Ukrainian census of 2001, language data by cities, at https://socialdata.org.ua/projects/mova-2001/