- Hotin County
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Geography
Hotin County covered 3,782 km2 and was located in northeast part of
Greater Romania , in the northern part ofBessarabia on the border with theSoviet Union . Currently, the territory that comprised Hotin County is divided between theUkraine andMoldova . In theinterwar period , its borders were as follows: theUkrainian SSR ofSoviet Union andStanislawow Voivodship ofPoland to the north,Soroca County andBălţi County to the east and southeast,Dorohoi County to the south, andCernăuţi County to the west.Administrative organization
Administratively, Hotin County was divided into six parts ("plăşi", singular "plasa"): I. Plasa Chelmenţi , II. Plasa
Hotin (Plasa name wasClişcăuţi ), III. Plasa Ion Gh. Duca (Briceni ), IV. PlasaLipcani , V. Plasa Secureni, VI. Plasa Suliţa.Population
According to the Romanian census of 1930 the population of Hotin County was 392,430, of which 41.6% were ethnic
Ukrainians , 35.0% ethnicRomanians , 13.6% ethnicRussians , 9.2%Jews , 0.3% ethnicPoles . Classified by mother tongue: 45.1% spoke Ukrainian, 33.4% spoke Romanian, 12.0% spoke Russian, 9.2% spokeYiddish . Classified by religion: 87.0% were Orthodox Christian, 9.2% Jewish, 1.9%Baptist , 1.0%Old Believers , and 0.3%Roman Catholic .According to Russian census of 1897, Ukrainians (Little Russians) represented the majority of population of Khotin
Uyezd .There were 160,000 Ukrainians (55%) in rural areas, or 164,000 (53%) including urban areas. [ [http://dacoromania.org/index.php?nma=catalog&fla=stat&cat_id=10&nums=24 История Румынии и Молдовы: Бессарабия в составе Российской империи Берг Л.С. Бессарабия: страна, люди, хозяйство ] ]Urbanization
In 1930 the urban population of Hotin County was 15,334, which included 37.7% Jews, 36.6% Russians, 14.8% Ukrainians, 8.8% Romanians, and 1.5% Poles by ethnicity. The major mother tongues among the urban population were: Yiddish (37.6%), Russian (37.5%), Ukrainian (14.7%), Romanian (8.6%), and Polish (1.2%) The religious mix of the urban population was 57.6% Eastern Orthodox, 37.7% Jewish, 2.1% Old Believers, and 1.6% Roman Catholic.
References
External links
* [http://romaniainterbelica.memoria.ro/judete/hotin/index.html Hotin website (in Romanian)]
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