![]() ![]() During the 1917 Russian Revolution, Bessarabia briefly became an autonomous state within the Russian Republic, known as the Moldavian Democratic Republic. In 1856, southern Bessarabia was returned to Moldavia, which three years later united with Wallachia to form Romania, but Russian rule was restored over the whole of the region in 1878. ![]() Most of Moldovan territory was a part of the Principality of Moldavia from the 14th century until 1812, when it was ceded to the Russian Empire by the Ottoman Empire (to which Moldavia was a vassal state) and became known as Bessarabia. The capital and largest city is Chișinău. The unrecognised, breakaway region of Transnistria lies across the Dniester on the country's eastern border with Ukraine. It is bordered by Romania to the west and Ukraine to the north, east, and south with which a deal was struck in 2005 for access to the Black Sea, ending Moldova's landlocked status. Moldova ( / m ɒ l ˈ d oʊ v ə/ ( listen), sometimes UK: / ˈ m ɒ l d ə v ə/ Romanian pronunciation: ), officially the Republic of Moldova ( Romanian: Republica Moldova) is a sovereign state in Eastern Europe. Independence subsequently finalized with the dissolution of the USSR in December 1991.
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