Crossword clues for moldavia
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Latinized form of Moldova.
Wikipedia
Moldavia ( or , Romanian Cyrillic alphabet: ) is a historical region, and former principality in Eastern Europe, corresponding to the territory between the Eastern Carpathians and the Dniester river. An initially independent and later autonomous state, it existed from the 14th century to 1859, when it united with Wallachia as the basis of the modern Romanian state; at various times, Moldavia included the regions of Bessarabia (with the Budjak) and all of Bukovina.
The western half of Moldavia is now part of Romania, the eastern side belongs to the Republic of Moldova, while the northern and southeastern parts are territories of Ukraine.
Usage examples of "moldavia".
Soviets took eastern Poland, Moldavia, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, and Albania.
Sure, there were little telltale signs like the Soviets marching through Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Mongolia, Turkmenia, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kirgizia, Poland, Moldavia, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Albania, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, East Germany, Yugoslavia, North Korea, Cuba, South Yemen, Congo-Brazzaville, North Vietnam, Guinea-Bissau, Cambodia, Laos, South Vietnam, Ethiopia, Angola, Mozambique, Nicaragua, the Seychelles, Grenada, and Afghanistan.
I find that the district he named is in the extreme east of the country, just on the borders of three states, Transylvania, Moldavia, and Bukovina, in the midst of the Carpathian mountains.
In the peace settlement that followed World War I , Romania reclaimed not only Bessarabia , but also a northern fragment of Moldavia from the dismembered Austro-Hungarian Empire.
The first outbreak was in Moldavia, the ancient Roman province of Dacia which had been cut off from the Empire in the third century.