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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]
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]
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 ...
Transnistria, a small, breakaway region of Moldova, is sandwiched between Moldova and Ukraine along its southwestern border. Three explosions were reported on April 25 and 26, 2022, in Transn.
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 ...
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. [40] The talks proved to be a failure.
Transnistria is an unrecognised state that unilaterally split from Moldova after the dissolution of the USSR and mostly consists of a narrow strip of land between the river Dniester and the territory of Ukraine. In English, Transnistria refers to itself as Pridnestrovie, a Russian-language equivalent of
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.