The Municipality of Cahul from a Demographic, Urban, Economic and Cultural Point of View (According to the Census Data of December 29, 1930) (I)

Abstract

Based on a wide and varied range of documentary and statistical sources, the present study traces the history of the municipality of Cahul from a demographic, economic, urban and cultural point of view between the two world wars. The study contains a short foray into the history of documentary attestation and the foundation of the city of Cahul, the oldest name being “Șcheia”, a name attested in an official act of ruler Ștefan cel Mare dated July 2, 1502, but also “Frumoasa”, as it appears on the map of Moldova drawn up by Dimitrie Cantemir in 1716. An analysis of the events produced in the locality during the years of the national renaissance from 1917–1918 is carried out, noting the beneficial nature of the great event of the Union of Bessarabia with the Old Kingdom of Romania, including for the population of the city of Cahul. The second part of the study deals with the actual history of the town. Cahul between the two world wars. At a distance of over three decades of free evolution of national historiography, the truth appears as obvious that during the Soviet years, the city of Cahul, like all the localities in the Pruto-Dniester interfluve, had a parallel history, ideologized and falsified, in significant contradiction with the real history of the locality, especially the events and processes produced during the Romanian interwar decades being falsified, distorted and presented according to the patterns of Soviet ideology.

Keywords

• city
• cahul
• residence
• county
• national renaissance
• bugeac
• valul lui traian
• romanian decades
• agrarian reform
• census
• population
• education
• book science