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Transnistria was an early crossroads of people and cultures, including the South Slavs, who reached it in the 6th century.Some East Slavic tribes (Ulichs and Tivertsy) may have lived in it, but they were pushed further north by Turkic nomads such as Pechenegs and the Cumans. [7]
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 30 January 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 ...
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 ...
The location of Transnistria An enlargeable map of Transnistria. The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to Transnistria: Transnistria is a breakaway state located mostly on a strip of land between the River Dniester and the eastern Moldovan border with Ukraine. Since its declaration of independence in 1990, and ...
The Government of Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic is the political leadership of the unrecognized, but de facto independent, Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic (PMR), commonly known in English as Transnistria.
After a short war in the early 1990s, Transnistria declared independence from Moldova, where today’s pro-Western government has firmly opposed Russian President Vladimir Putin’s war with Ukraine.
Note: "-" means the official census data does not identify that group in that year, i.e. counts it within other groups, not that the group is not present. In the years of the latter half of the 20th century, the ethnic proportions have changed in large measure due to industrialization and the immigration of Russian and Ukrainian workers.
Actual distinctiveness demonstrates that Transnistria has few things in common with Moldova. The majority (61.2% as of 2005 [1]) in Transnistria are Slavs who speak Russian and Ukrainian in contrast to Moldova where most of the population are ethnic Moldovans and speak Moldovan. The two also differ in alphabets, religions, economies, etc.