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The name Dniester derives from Sarmatian dānu nazdya "the close river". [7] The Dnieper , also of Sarmatian origin, derives from the opposite meaning, "the river on the far side".) Alternatively, according to Vasily Abaev Dniester would be a blend of Scythian dānu "river" and Thracian Ister , the previous name of the river, literally Dān ...
The name "Transnistria" is Romanian and literally means "beyond the river Dniester". The name has been in use in Romania as early as 1924. [citation needed] In both Russian and Ukrainian, the name has a more literal meaning as it is called "Cisdniestria" which means "On this side of the Dniester", "By-the-Dniester" or "On-the-Dniester" (as ...
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 10 February 2025. Unrecognised state in Eastern Europe This article is about the unrecognized state. For the administrative unit of Moldova, see Administrative-Territorial Units of the Left Bank of the Dniester. For other uses, see Transnistria (disambiguation). Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic Official ...
Dniester→ Dniester Estuary→ Black Sea Bîc (also spelled Bâc , pronunciation: [ b ɨ k ] ) is a river in Moldova , a right tributary of the Dniester . Geography
Pliny the Elder names the Tyragetae, a Getae tribe living on an island of the Dniester (ancient name "Tyras"), the Axiacae living along the Tiligul River (ancient "Axiaces") and the Crobyzi, a Thracian tribe living beyond the Dniester. [1] At the mouth of the river, the Ancient Greeks of Miletus founded around 600 BC a colony named Tyras, which ...
The city is located on the eastern bank of the Dniester River. Tiraspol is a regional hub of culture, economy, tourism, and light industry , such as furniture and electrical goods production. The modern city of Tiraspol was founded by the Russian generalissimo Alexander Suvorov in 1792, although the area had been inhabited for thousands of ...
The Bystrytsia Tysmenytska (Ukrainian: Бистриця Тисменицька [1]) is a river in western Ukraine, and is a part of the Dniester basin. The river is a right tributary of the Dniester, and flows through parts of Lviv Oblast.
The park stretches for 160 km along the Dniester River. The geology of the Dniester Canyon, cut into the surrounding plateau, includes granite and gneisses up to 2,000 million years old, as well as sedimentary and limestone rocks of the more recent Cenozoic (10–12 million years). The karst landscape in places supports numerous caves. [1]