Historical evolution of Chisinau

Chisinau was built in 1436, when it was a monastery town in the Principality of Moldova. /kloc-became the territory of the Ottoman empire in the 0/6th century and was ceded to Russia in 18 12. /kloc-At the beginning of the 9th century, this city has developed into a small village with a population of 7000. After being ceded to Russia, it became the capital of Bissalabia under Russian rule, and its population grew steadily from 92,000 in 1862 to 1900 in 125787.

During the Turkish-Russian war from 1877 to 1878, Chisinau was once regarded as the main base for Russian invasion of Turkey, and its strategic position was important. /kloc-in the 9th century, due to the increasingly fierce anti-semitism in Russia and Poland, many Jews moved to Chisinau one after another, resulting in a population of 43% at the time of the 1900 census.

Like many parts of Russia, there were two large-scale massacres in Chisinau from April 6 to April 7 in 1903, and from June 9 to June 20 in 10, which were called "massacres" in history. At least 47 Jews and 65,438+09 Jews died in these two anti-Semitic riots, which led to a large number of Jews living in Eastern Europe migrating to Western Europe or the United States the next year.

19 17 After the Russian Revolution, Moldova took the opportunity to break away from Russian control and declared the establishment of the Democratic Republic of Moldova on February 2, 18, but it was attacked by Romanian troops a few days later and was annexed by Romania on March 27,19/8, until 65438. During World War II, Moldova, sandwiched between many great powers, became a battlefield. 194 1 On June 22nd, 2000, Chisinau was attacked by air and occupied by Romania, which was then an axis country, but on August 24th, 2004, it was occupied by the Soviet Union attacking from the east. Chisinau became the capital of the newly established Modavia Soviet Socialist Republic after the war and was one of the republics of the Soviet Union.

During the Soviet rule, the population of Chisinau grew rapidly, from about 25,000 in 1944 to 1950134,000, because the central government encouraged people from all over the Soviet Union to move to newly occupied areas like Modavia. 199 1 year, the Soviet Union disintegrated, Moldova became the Republic of Moldova, and Chisinau naturally became the capital of the new country.