2012 - Stockton Folk Dance Camp

UKRAINE AND MOLDAVIA
Moldavia is a geographic and historical region and
former principality in Eastern Europe, corresponding to the
territory between the Eastern Carpathians and the Dniester
River. An initially independent and later autonomous state, it
existed from the 14th century to 1859, when it united with
Wallachia as the basis of the modern Romanian state. The
western part of Moldavia is now part of Romania and the
eastern part belongs to the Republic of Moldova, while the
northern and southeastern parts are territories of Ukraine.
Ukraine is the second-largest country in Europe. It
borders the Russian Federation to the east and northeast;
Belarus to the northwest; Poland, Slovakia and Hungary to the
west; Romania and Moldova to the southwest; and the Black
Sea and Sea of Azov to the south and southeast, respectively.
Ukraine became one of the founding republics of the Soviet
Union. It gained its independence when the Soviet Union
dissolved in 1991.
Ukrainians are the second-largest ethnicity group in Moldavia after ethnic Moldavians;
approximately 11% of the population. Moldavians are the fourth-largest ethnic minority in Ukraine.
STOCKTON FOLK DANCE CAMP – 2012 – FINAL – 08/07/2012
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