CONTINUITY AND DEMOGRAPHIC CYCLING IN THE ROMANIAN CARPATHIAN SPACE IN THE PERIOD 1930-2011

Abstract

Through this article we wanted to conduct a research on the demographic component in the Romanian Carpathians by dividing the Carpathian Oicumenical into the Internal Carpathian Oicumena and External Carpathian Oicumena. We also wanted to identify cycles of demographic evolution and involutivity in the Romanian Carpathian space, and in parallel to identify several causes of different orgini that underwent the continuity and the demographic cyclical. The studied Period is 1930-2011, with statistical data taken from four censused: 1930, 1977, 1992 and 2011. Their processing was done using the Microsoft Excel 2013 program, calculating demographic increases. Then, the resulting increases served in the implementation of the database, and their processing was done through geographic information systems (ArcGis 10.3), making maps representative of the intended purpose. In 1930, the urban environment was little represented in the Romanian Carpathians, but after the establishment of socialism, the number of cities increased greatly. Instead, the rural environment began to be gradually disintegrated by the communist regime, with the population having to migrate to urban centres. On the whole, the population of the Romanian Carpathians rose from 1930 to 1977 and 1992, with the beginning of the demographic decline, with the establishment of capitalism. In the period 1977-1992, the Carpathian population increased by 5%, and from 1992 to 2011, decreased by 16%.

Keywords

• continuity
• cyclical
• demography
• carpathian space
• romania