Eastern Moldova
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[[Image:Transnistria-map.png|thumb|200px|The Republic of [[Moldova]], with [[Transnistria]] shaded in ocre.]]{{clearright}}[[Image:Romania counties.png|thumb|200px|This map shows (in shades of pink) the [[Romania]]n province of Moldavia (called, by some, "western Moldova") adjoining the present-day Republic.]]
The name '''''eastern Moldova''''' (usually with either a lowercase "e") refers—usually in a historical context—to the eastern territory of the old [[Moldavia|Principality of Moldova]], roughly equal in territory to the present-day Republic of [[Moldova]], minus [[Transnistria]]. This territory was annexed in [[1812]] by the [[Russian Empire]] together with [[Ottoman Bessarabia]], a region that had at that time been part of the [[Ottoman Empire]] for 328 years.
While Ottoman Bessarabia corresponded mainly to what now is known as [[Budjak]] and is part of [[Ukraine]] (along the [[Black Sea]] south of [[Moldova]]), the Russians applied the name ''[[Bessarabia]]'' to the entire annexed territory. Although this usage was ahistorical when first adopted, ''Bessarabia'' has come to refer more commonly to the so-named portion of the Russian Empire than to the older Ottoman Bessarabia. Thus one sees usages such as "1812... [[Treaty of Bucharest, 1812|Treaty of Bucharest]] grants Russia control of eastern Moldova or Bessarabia, the area between the River [[Prut]] and the west bank of the [[Dniester]]," {{ref|BBC}} or "In 1940, Romania was forced to cede eastern Moldova to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (U.S.S.R.)…" {{ref|globalEDGE}}
''Eastern Moldova'' (often with an uppercase "E") is also used at times to refer to the entire Republic of Moldova, in order to differentiate it from Western Moldova which is a [[Romania]]n region, as in "Moldovans are Romanians, they speak [[Romanian language|Romanian]], and the republic is in fact just Eastern Moldova, or Bessarabia, which was once annexed by Russia." {{ref|Kullberg}}
The expression ''eastern Moldova'' can also refer to the eastern portion of the present-day Republic of Moldova. It may refer precisely to Transnistria, or the use may be less specific. {{ref|thinkquest}} {{ref|encarta}}
==Notes==
*{{note|BBC}} {{cite web | author=— | title= Timeline: Moldova | date=[[12 June]] [[2005]] | publisher=BBC | work=Country Profiles | url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/country_profiles/1113586.stm | accessdaymonth=8 July | accessyear=2005 }}
*{{note|globalEDGE}} {{cite web | author=— | title= Timeline: Moldova | year= 2004 (?) | publisher=globalEDGE | work=Country Insights | url= http://globaledge.msu.edu/countryInsights/history.asp?countryID=64®ionID=2| accessdaymonth=8 July | accessyear=2005 }}
*{{note|Kullberg}} {{cite web | author=Anssi Kullberg | title=Georgia and Moldova: the Struggle for Free Europe again goes on | date=[[1 December]] [[2003]] | publisher=The Eurasian Politician | work=The Eurasian Politician - December 2003 | url=http://www.cc.jyu.fi/~aphamala/pe/2003/geormold.htm | accessdaymonth=7 July | accessyear=2005 }}
*{{note|thinkquest}} [http://library.thinkquest.org/10775/moldova.htm Moldova], from a series of articles on former Soviet republics on ThinkQuest.
*{{note|encarta}} {{cite web | author=— | title="Moldova (III – The People of Moldova) | year=2005 | publisher=Microsoft | work=Encarta | url=http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761566942/Moldova.html#s4 | accessdaymonth=7 July | accessyear=2005 }}
==See also==
* [[Republic of Moldova]]
* [[Principality of Moldova]]
* [[Budjak]]
* [[Ottoman Bessarabia]]
* [[Transnistria]]
[[Category:Geography of Moldova]]
[[Category:History of Moldova]]