Un fals istoriografic: Moldoslavia
A historiographical fake: Moldoslavia

Summary/Abstract: The contemporary Ukrainian historiography invokes a name of Moldavia in the 14th century apparently unknown until now to the Romanian historians, Moldoslavia, together with the well-known one, which was used several times by the Patriarchal Chancellery of Constantinople, Rusovlahia, as an argument for issuing theories regarding the ethnic structure of the population at the beginning of the young country. Given the special importance of this new information concerning the East-Carpathian territory during the 14 century, all the references provided by the Ukrainian historians in order to identify the source which mentions this name and to obtain as much information as possible from analysing the context in which it was used. However the interrogation of the Soviet and Russian historiographies proved that the name Moldoslavia is not attested in 14th century or earlier sources neither for the entire territory of the East-Carpathian country nor for only a part of it. This specific name is found in the Ukrainian folklore in a different historical time, during the 18th century, and has a completely different meaning than the one assigned to it by the historians in the neighbouring country.

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