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All of the names cited above have their root in the name of the river Dniester. In Romanian, the river is known as Nistru. 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]
Village name during the kingdoms of Israel, Judah until the Siege of Jerusalem (930 BC to 587 BC): Paleo-Hebrew: ๐ค๐ค๐ค๐ค๐ค๐ค [1] [2] Pronunciation: Bayawt Lahawm Meaning: House of Bread Village name from 587 BC through the time of Christ: Aramaic: ืืืช ืืื Pronunciation: Beit Lekhem Meaning: House of Bread Beth Shemesh: Village
These names are adaptations of the Romanian colloquial name of the region, Transnistria, meaning "beyond the Dniester". The term Transnistria was used in relation to eastern Moldova for the first time in the year 1989, [ 33 ] [ 34 ] [ 35 ] in the election slogan of Leonida Lari , the deputy and member of the Popular Front of Moldova formed ...
Many place names in the Land of Israel, Holy Land and Palestine are Arabised forms of ancient Hebrew and Canaanite place-names used during biblical times [1] [2] [3] or later Aramaic or Greek formations. [4] [5] Most of these names have been handed down for thousands of years though their meaning was understood by only a few.
[2] [full citation needed] But the colonization was to a larger scale after 1792, to Transnistria and beyond, when the Russian government declared that the region between the Dniester and the Bug was to become a new principality named "New Moldavia", under Russian suzerainty. [3] [full citation needed]
The Ancient Greek name of Dniester, Tyras (Τฯρας), is from Scythian tลซra, meaning "rapid". [citation needed] The names of the Don and Danube are also from the same Iranian word *dฤnu "river". Classical authors have also referred to it as Danaster. These early forms, without -i- but with -a-, contradict Abaev's hypothesis.
Beginning in 2005, multilateral talks were held on the subject of Transnistria. The 5+2 in the name refer to Moldova, Transnistria, Ukraine, Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe and Russia, plus the European Union and the United States as external observers. [41] The talks proved to be a failure.
The Pridnestrovian Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic [a] (PMSSR), also commonly known as Soviet Transnistria or simply as Transnistria, was created on the eastern periphery of the Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic (MSSR) in 1990 by pro-Soviet separatists who hoped to remain within the Soviet Union when it became clear that the MSSR would achieve independence from the USSR and possibly ...