PART 3
According to my research, my father's ancestor from Transylvania was most likely a Mocan (sheep owner) from Făgăraș or Mărginimea Sibiului who migrated to Oltenia due to the worsening economic conditions in Transylvania at that time. It remains to be found how D. Muntian's paternal ancestor arrived in Crimea.
The answer lies in a book written by the historian Ștefan Meteș, dedicated to the emigration from Transylvania in the 13th-20th centuries. There is a chapter called "Emigration of Romanians from Transylvania to Russia, Serbia, Bulgaria and America", from which I will quote some fragments.
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{automatic translation from Rumanian}
In Russia, [the Transylvanians] began to emigrate especially in the 18th century because of religious persecution, Austria with its rulers wanting to forcefully convert them to Catholicism. However, they did not want to leave the law [faith] of their parents at any cost, but rather left for foreign, but orthodox lands, in order to save their faith. [...] We know that Romanian sheep from Transylvania roamed the rich plains of the Romanian principalities [Wallachia and Moldavia] from ancient times, and even crossed their borders. Of course, the provision in the Turkish-Polish peace treaty of 1577 refers to them as well, by which Romanian shepherds are allowed to cross the Dniester with their flocks for grazing. [...] Transylvanian shepherds, skilled and clever, made good profits through their flocks even on lands so far from their homes. After 1812, part of these shepherds went to Dobrogea, and others remained under the new Russian domination.
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Throughout the 19th century, and especially after the customs war [with Austria-Hungary] of 1885, a lot of shepherds from around Sibiu: Cacova, Sibiel, Săcel, Vale, Săliște, Galeș, Tilișca, Rod, Poiana and Rășinari and from other villages Poiana Sărată, etc., crept into southern Russia. The places where these shepherds brought their flocks were: Crimea on the borders of the cities of Evpatoria, Karassubasar [Belogorsk], Simferopol, Yalta, Livada and Sevastopol on the shore of the Black Sea, then in the land of Molojna at Yekaterinodar, Melitopol and Mariupol on the shore of the Sea of Azov, in the Caucasus at Krasnodar and in Kuban, on the valley of the Terek River with the cities of Vladikavkaz and Malcik and on the valley of the Kuma and Manych [Маныч] rivers leading to the Caspian Sea and in numerous villages of the land and down to Baku, Batumi and Tbilisi. We find them in Cherkasy, Taganrog, and Rostov-on-Don, then on the Volga and Tsaritsyn (Volgograd), Astrakhan and Zimonovnik, in which city the shepherd Oprea Lupaş was the owner of 2 rows of houses. The Romanian [Transylvanian] prisoners from the First World War discovered on the middle and lower reaches of the Volga river many shepherds and Romanian [estate] owners from Transylvania, so in the Samara Governorate lived a big [estate] owner, who had been a shepherd in 1877, in the town of Buguruslan: Petru Smoală from Săliștea Sibiului. In Dubăsari, many rich shepherds from Mărginimea Sibiului settled in a leading role in this market on the left side of the Dniester [river]. In Siberia, in Omsk, the shepherds N. Oancea from Săliște and I. Rîbu from Rod had estates, [and] two other shepherds from Mărginimea Sibiului were buried there: Dumitru Miclauș from Tilișca and Gh. D. Taban from Cacova.
Ștefan Meteș: Emigrări Românești din Transilvania în Secolele XIII-XX (Editura Științifică, București, 1971) - pages 82-87
[Romanian Emigrations from Transylvania in the XIII-XX Centuries]
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In conclusion, it is very likely that D. Muntian's ancestor was a shepherd from southern Transylvania who migrated to Crimea. I have said in the past that it is possible that haplogroup I-FGC22045 is also found in Russia. This can be confirmed if the Muntian family from Crimea turns out to have haplogroup I-PH3895, which obviously needs to be proven with a Big Y or WGS test.
Тема: Haplogroup I-FGC22045, a Balkan branch of I-P109 (Прочитано 52880 раз)