Hagimus – Village That Resisted to Foreign Influences (VIDEO)
By Diana Ungureanu/ Chisinau / Moldova.ORG/ -- A Moldavian village, where more than 90% of residents are Moldovans, has a strange name for our nation. The name of this this locality is the alive testimony of millenary fight between the inhabitants of this nook of land, named Moldova, and all those who coveted and conquered of numberless times our nook of heaven between Prut and Dniester.
Who could know better this fact than those who are considered Romanians on that bank of the Dniester, considered Russian – this is called national verticality. These are the villagers of Hagimus, from Causeni County.
The village houses, spread on the edge of a hill, from which can be admired the Dniester meadow and the lights of city Bender, create the impression of beads on the green carpet of grass and trees.
The history of the village is quite old, there was mentioned officially 1725 as the year of its foundation, with the official name of the village Hagimus. Although this name is used in geographical maps of Moldova, the locals and neighbors from surrounding villages have another name for this village – Agiunsa or Ajunsa (Arrived). The original name of the village would have been changed by Turks who invaded on these lands and who renamed village in Hagimus in 1735.
At the question about the origin of the village name, locals can answer only with a legend of the place, with two young protagonists who arrived here and said: “Am agiuns!” (We arrived!), building here their “nest”.
A place where you can admire the village in its whole splendor is the Hill of Ioan Voda the Terrible, noted by Bogdan Petriceicu Hasdeu in one of his writings as the hillock where would have hided the army of Ioan Voda the Terrible and from where they could see very well the fortress of Tighina.
The village from the slopes of the Dniester meadow can be proud of splendid landscapes, important historical artifacts, including the Turkish cemetery, or old cemetery, and also with people with a great soul that kept the traditions of ancestors in despite of foreign influences.
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