{"id":16820,"date":"2020-05-13T20:41:41","date_gmt":"2020-05-13T17:41:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/go-to.rest\/blog\/ethnographic-characteristics-of-the-population-of-transcarpathia\/"},"modified":"2021-04-18T01:23:10","modified_gmt":"2021-04-17T22:23:10","slug":"ethnographic-characteristics-of-the-population-of-transcarpathia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/go-to.rest\/blog\/en\/ethnographic-characteristics-of-the-population-of-transcarpathia\/","title":{"rendered":"Ethnographic characteristics of the population of Transcarpathia"},"content":{"rendered":"
Before you go on vacation in Transcarpathia, any tourist should get acquainted with the ethnographic characteristics of its population. In General, the Transcarpathian region is a multi-ethnic region. It is home to a courageous and hard-working people who have created a precious treasure of spiritual and material culture over the course of a complex historical development.<\/p>\n
Transcarpathia is the youngest region in Ukraine. It became part of the then Ukrainian SSR only after World War II, namely, on January 22, 1946. the Transcarpathian region is located on the South-Western slopes of the Ukrainian mountains Carpathian<\/a> and their foothills, as well as in the North-Eastern part of the middle Danube lowland. Transcarpathia has a unique geographical location. Transcarpathian region borders with Lviv (85 km) and Ivano-Frankivsk (180 km) regions, and then only on mountain ranges. At the same time, the state border of Ukraine with four countries \u2013 Poland (33 km), Slovakia (98 km), Hungary (135 km) and Romania (190 km) – passes through Transcarpathia. The border runs along mountain ranges and on flat territory, and for a significant segment – along the riverYew tree<\/a> and its tributaries.<\/p>\n\n Transcarpathia has long been an important cultural crossroads between East and West. Different peoples and ethnic groups met and mixed here, with different traditions, customs and religions. Since the end of the XI century the gradual incorporation of Transcarpathia into the Hungarians<\/a>, after that, the process of settling the region has become extremely complex. The formation of Transcarpathia into a separate unique ethnographic zone was influenced by a whole complex of factors: natural-geographical, state-political, religious, economic, ethno-cultural and ethnodemographic. Throughout its historical development, the Transcarpathian ethnographic zone has been constantly shrinking. At the end of the XVIII-beginning \u0425\u0406\u0425 the total area of Transcarpathia was 22.3 thousand km2<\/sup>, including at home Maramoroskyi<\/a>,Ugochanskyi, Berezki and Uzhansky<\/a>the counties (of a total area of 17.9 thousand km 2<\/sup>) and about 4.4 thousand km of the Ukrainian ethnic territories of the Zemplinsky, Sharish, spish and Abu-Tornyansky comitates. As a result of ethnopolitical processes the territory of Transcarpathia in 1918-1938 was reduced to 15.6 thousand km2<\/sup>.<\/p>\n Today the total area of the region is 12.8 thousand km2<\/sup>. The population of Transcarpathia is 1 million 244 thousand people. (as of 2010). \u00a0<\/sup>Along with Ukrainians (about 80 %) on the territory of the region live compactly Hungarians<\/a>, Romanians<\/a>, Russians<\/a>, Slovaks<\/a> and many other nationalities.<\/p>\n Ukrainians.<\/u><\/strong> The culture of Ukrainians in Transcarpathia is an integral part of the national Treasury of the Ukrainian people. The peculiarity of historical, economic and cultural development, natural and geographical features, close contacts with other peoples \u2013 all this is characteristic of the Ukrainians of Transcarpathia.<\/p>\n An important role in the formation of ethnographic and local features of the folk culture of Ukrainians in Transcarpathia was played by the penetration of migrants from the North of the Carpathians of various ethnographic groups \u2013Hutsuls<\/a>, firing pin, Lemke<\/a>.<\/p>\n In Transcarpathia\u0425\u0406\u0425 \u2013the beginning of the twentieth century are the following ethnographic groups of the Ukrainian population: dolyniany, Lemko, Boyko, Hutsuls<\/a>.<\/p>\n Dolyniany.<\/u><\/strong> Most of the territory of Transcarpathia (9.75 thousand km2)and 200 km2of Ukrainian ethnic territory in Romania along the. Yew tree<\/a> from m. Sigit to m. Tyachev<\/a> inhabited by Ukrainians-dolinyane. They live on the plain, in the foothills, middle mountains and partly high mountains of Transcarpathia from the town of Shopurki in the East to the border with Slovakia in the West. The Northern boundary of the watershed dolinian pass the half-oninsky ridge from PGT. Mezhgore<\/a> in the village of Yavirnyk on In the Russian Federation<\/a>.In the South, they are bordered by Hungarians who inhabit the outskirts of Transcarpathia, lowlands along the border with Hungary.<\/sup><\/sup><\/p>\n Most researchers believe that dolyniany came from southern Ukraine through Moldova and Transylvania, and Transylvania are the descendants of Slavs.<\/p>\n\n