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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 the deputy and member of the Popular Front of Moldova Leonida Lari: [36] [37] [38]
This is the history of Transnistria, officially the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic (PMR), an unrecognised breakaway state that is internationally recognised as part of Moldova. Transnistria controls most of the narrow strip of land between the Dniester river and the Moldovan–Ukrainian border , as well as some land on the other side of the ...
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]
The territory of Transnistria is under the Diocese of Chișinău and All Moldova [] of the Russian Orthodox Old Believer Church. As of 2016, there are three Old Believer churches in Transnistria; the Church of the Intercession of the Most Holy Theotokos in Tiraspol, the Church of the Great Martyr George the Victorious in the village of Bîcioc, and the Church of the Intercession of the Most ...
English name Greek name Description The Twelve Titans Coeus: Κοῖος (Koîos) God of intellect and the axis of heaven around which the constellations revolved. Crius: Κρεῖος (Kreîos) The least individualized of the Twelve Titans, he is the father of Astraeus, Pallas, and Perses. Implied to be the god of constellations. Cronus ...
Early accounts gave her a primal origin, said to be the eldest daughter of Gaia (Earth) and Uranus (Sky). [4] She is thus the sister of the Titans (Oceanus, Crius, Hyperion, Iapetus, Coeus, Themis, Rhea, Phoebe, Tethys, Mnemosyne, Cronus, and sometimes of Dione), the Cyclopes, the Hecatoncheires, the Giants, the Meliae, the Erinyes, and is the half-sister of Aphrodite (in some versions ...
Pliny the Elder names the Tyragetae, a Getae tribe living on an island of the Dniester (ancient name "Tyras"), the Axiacae living along the Tyligul 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.
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 ...