Moldva (distinct from
the post-Soviet country of Moldova): a region at the foot of the Eastern Carpathians,
the last transitional home of the conquering Magyars on their
way to the Carpathian Basin. Later, it became the Cumans' temporary
home, later still a Romanian voivodeship and then principality.
Today, it is a part of Romania. The Csángós, or
Moldavian Magyars, comprise its Hungarian-speaking population.
The Csángó community has retained a great many archaic
cultural features, but its language and lifestyle (e.g., peasant
wear) has been much influenced by its (Orthodox) Romanian neighbors.