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Moldova, [ d] officially the Republic of Moldova, [ e] is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe, on the northeastern corner of the Balkans. [ 16] The country spans a total of 33,483 km 2 (12,928 sq mi) and has a population of approximately 2.42 million as of January 2024. [ 17] Moldova is bordered by Romania to the west and Ukraine to the ...
Moldovan or Moldavian ( Latin alphabet: limba moldovenească, Moldovan Cyrillic alphabet: лимба молдовеняскэ) is one of the two local names for the Romanian language in Moldova. [ 1][ 2] Moldovan was declared the official language of Moldova in Article 13 of the constitution adopted in 1994, [ 3] while the 1991 Declaration of ...
The official state language of Moldova is Romanian, which is the native language of 78.6% of the population (as of the 2014 Census); it is also spoken as a primary language by other ethnic minorities. Gagauz, Russian, and Ukrainian languages are granted official regional status in Gagauzia and/or Transnistria .
Moldavia (Romanian: Moldova, pronounced ⓘ or Țara Moldovei, literally "The Country of Moldavia"; in Romanian Cyrillic: Молдова or Цара Мѡлдовєй) is a historical region and former principality in Central and Eastern Europe, [8] [9] [10] corresponding to the territory between the Eastern Carpathians and the Dniester River.
The history of Moldova can be traced to the 1350s, when the Principality of Moldavia, the medieval precursor of modern Moldova and Romania, was founded. The principality was a vassal of the Ottoman Empire from 1538 until the 19th century. In 1812, following one of several Russian–Turkish wars, the eastern half of the principality, Bessarabia ...
Moldovans, sometimes referred to as Moldavians ( Romanian: moldoveni [moldoˈvenʲ], Moldovan Cyrillic: молдовень ), are a Romanian-speaking ethnic group and the largest ethnic group of the Republic of Moldova (75.1% of the population as of 2014) and a significant minority in Romania, Italy, Ukraine and Russia. There is an ongoing ...
In the Soviet census of 1989, 62% of the total population claimed Moldovan as their native language. Only 4% of the entire population claimed Moldovan as a second language. In 1979, Russian was claimed as a native language by a large proportion of Jews (66%) and Belarusians (62%), and by a significant proportion of Ukrainians (30%).
The Moldova Portal. Moldova ( / mɒlˈdoʊvə / ⓘ mol-DOH-və, sometimes UK: / ˈmɒldəvə / MOL-də-və; Romanian pronunciation: [molˈdova] ), officially the Republic of Moldova ( Romanian: Republica Moldova ), is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe, on the northeastern corner of the Balkans. The country spans a total of 33,483 km 2 ...