Tara Motilor
The land of the “Moti” is an ethno-geographical area in Romania that resides in the Apuseni Mountains on the superior dock of the Aries and Crisul Alb rivers. Within it guards slices of the current districts of Alba, Arad, Bihor, Cluj and Hunedoara. The “land” term doesn’t imply a political or administrative stance, but is rather the archaic term that refers to a somewhat isolated hollow in the Apuseni Carpathians. Due to the blond hair and blue eyes, the people of those lands have woven a lot of theories about the origin of the “Moti”. What has been, however, unanimously accepted is the fact that the “Moti” are the direct successors of the Dacians.
They live in scattered villages at altitudes of over 1400 meters: taller than any other permanent settlements of Romania. Their primary occupations are woodworking and mining. The extensive and still not deforested woods still offer them the necessary materials that they use to build their famous barrels, their unique furniture and other craftsmanship and the goldmines in the mountains of Abrud (existing since the Roman occupation), everything managed to charm folks who have crossed their history with these courageous people and tried to subdue them. Yet this idea of freedom has never been as deep as here. Throughout its entire unquiet history, the Land of the “Moti” has been and is a paradigm of resistance and fight for political, economic and social rights and rebellions such as the Uprising of Horea, Closca and Crisan in 1795 and the 1848 Revolution have begun in this area.
Tara Motilor
The land of the “Moti” is an ethno-geographical area in Romania that resides in the Apuseni Mountains on the superior dock of the Aries and Crisul Alb rivers. Within it guards slices of the current districts of Alba, Arad, Bihor, Cluj and Hunedoara. The “land” term doesn’t imply a political or administrative stance, but is rather the archaic term that refers to a somewhat isolated hollow in the Apuseni Carpathians. Due to the blond hair and blue eyes, the people of those lands have woven a lot of theories about the origin of the “Moti”. What has been, however, unanimously accepted is the fact that the “Moti” are the direct successors of the Dacians.
They live in scattered villages at altitudes of over 1400 meters: taller than any other permanent settlements of Romania. Their primary occupations are woodworking and mining. The extensive and still not deforested woods still offer them the necessary materials that they use to build their famous barrels, their unique furniture and other craftsmanship and the goldmines in the mountains of Abrud (existing since the Roman occupation), everything managed to charm folks who have crossed their history with these courageous people and tried to subdue them. Yet this idea of freedom has never been as deep as here. Throughout its entire unquiet history, the Land of the “Moti” has been and is a paradigm of resistance and fight for political, economic and social rights and rebellions such as the Uprising of Horea, Closca and Crisan in 1795 and the 1848 Revolution have begun in this area.
