Ethno-demographic changes that occurred in Dobruja as a result of the colonization policies implemented between 1878 and 1940 (I)
Ethno-demographic changes that occurred in Dobruja as a result of the colonization policies implemented between 1878 and 1940 (I)

Summary/Abstract: Known in antiquity as Schytia Minor, and later, after the fifteenth century as Dobruja (Ciorbea 2008), the region is characterized by a highly complex demographic evolution which was in part determined by the various states that ruled the land and colonized on its territory various groups (Neagu 2004). As a result of the various historical variables, Dobruja became subjected to a series of colonization policies that were imposed by the Romanian administration after 1878. During the centuries when the region was under Ottoman rule, the demographic landscape became increasingly Ottomanized, which in fact proved to be reversible, as we can notice in the present. The name Dobruja came into use after 1420, as it is stipulated the historical sources, before that the territory was known as Podunavia or Terrarum Dobrotich, as it is stated by Anca Popescu. As with some other cases, the region’s name is given by that one of its former rulers.

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