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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]
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 ...
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 ...
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[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]
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.
Tiraspol (Russian: Тирасполь, pronounced [tʲɪˈraspəlʲ]; Romanian: Tiraspol, [tɪˈrɑspol], Moldovan Cyrillic: Тираспол, also Tirișpolea; [4] [5] Ukrainian: Тирасполь, romanized: Tyraspol') is the capital and largest city of Transnistria, a breakaway state of Moldova, where it is the third-largest city.
The Ancient Greek name of Dniester, Tyras (Τύρας), is from Scythian tūra, meaning "rapid". [citation needed] The names of the Don and Danube are also from the same Iranian word *dānu "river". Classical authors have also referred to it as Danaster. These early forms, without -i- but with -a-, contradict Abaev's hypothesis.