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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 ...
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 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 ...
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 ...
The culture of Moldova is unique and influenced by the Romanian origins of its majority population, as well as the Slavic and minority Gagauz populations. [ 1] The traditional Latin origins of Romanian culture reach back to the 2nd century, the period of Roman colonization in Dacia . During the centuries following the Roman withdrawal in 271 ...
Bessarabia, Moldavia and Moldova. Before 1812 the territory of the modern Republic of Moldova was usually called Eastern Moldova, Eastern Lowlands, Dniester - Prut, Bendery (for the largest town) or Orhei (for the largest town in the centre). After the entire eastern part of the region, between the Pruth and the Dniester, was ceded by the ...
Geography of Moldova. / 47°N 29°E / 47; 29. Located in Eastern Europe, Moldova is bordered on the west and southwest by Romania and on the north, south, and east by Ukraine. Most of its territory lies in Bessarabia region, between the area's two main rivers, the Nistru and the Prut. The Nistru forms a small part of Moldova's border ...
Western Moldavia. Western Moldavia ( Romanian: Moldova Occidentală, Moldova de Apus, Moldova de Vest), also called Romanian Moldavia, or simply just Moldova is the core historic and geographical part of the former Principality of Moldavia situated in eastern and north-eastern Romania. Until its union with Wallachia in 1859, the Principality of ...