FEATURES OF TRADITIONAL LIVING ENVIRONMENT ON THE SLAVIC-ROMANESQUE BORDER IN SOUTHERN BESSARABIA: THE INFLUENCE OF HISTORICAL AND GEOGRAPHICAL COMPONENTS
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This article analyses the influence of historical and geographical components on the features of the traditional living environment on the Slavic-Romanesque border in Southern Bessarabia (Budjak). The Slavic-Romanesque border in Budjak is a region bordering ethnic Ukrainian and Moldavian territories; it is a historical and geographical region where representatives of different national groups have lived for many centuries. Given the polyethnic nature of the region, its history is dealt with a very extensive Ukrainian, Romanian, Moldavian, Bulgarian, Turkish, Russian historiography, which differently interprets the cultural dominants of Budjak.
There was a Budjak multiculturalism in Southern Bessarabia, that is, the region acted as a “melting pot” when its status as a polyethnic frontier was accompanied by positive cultural, ethno- and socio-psychological processes of mutual enrichment in the field of daily life, spiritual culture, ethnopsychology and assertion of tolerant coexistence.
Having received state support from the governments of Ukraine, Moldova, Romania and Bulgaria, representatives of relevant national cultures in the region can count on the reproduction of historical customs, traditions and household items in well-organized cultural institutions (museums, festivals, ethnocultural art groups, reconstruction groups, etc.), as well as on reflection in relevant professional research.
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