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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 17 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). Not to be confused with Transylvania ...
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 ]
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 Atlas of Transnistria, also known as the Atlas of the Dniester Moldavian Republic or the Atlas of Pridnestrovie is to date the most thoroughly researched reference work in existence for Transnistria, a region which declared independence from Moldova in 1990.
Since the Soviet era, Transnistria is home to three major groups: Romanians forming a plurality alongside Russians and Ukrainians. Historically, after one century of russification, the Romanians were no more the majority of population in the areas of the Moldavian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (MASSR) established, in 1924, within the Ukrainian SSR.
Transnistria has three official languages: Russian, "Moldovan" (Romanian in the Moldovan Cyrillic alphabet), and Ukrainian. In each of the three national languages the name reads: Russian: Приднестровская Молдавская Республика (Pridnestrovskaya Moldavskaya Respublika), abbreviated ПМР
It considers the current Transnistria-based PMR government to be illegitimate and not the rightful representative of the region's population, which has a Moldovan plurality (39.9% as of 1989). [37] The Moldovan side insists that Transnistria cannot exist as an independent political entity and must be reintegrated into Moldova. [citation needed]
The geology of Transnistria includes some of the region's rare exposures of rock from before the Neogene along the Dniester River. The area is underlain by East European Platform rocks from the Precambrian , including granite , gneiss and gabbro from the Archean and Paleozoic .