Moldavia

Moldavia listen or , literally "The Moldavian Country"; in Romanian Cyrillic: Молдова or Цара Мѡлдовєй; Church Slavonic: Землѧ Молдавскаѧ; Greek: Ἡγεμονία τῆς Μολδαβίας is the historical region & former principality in Central in addition to Eastern Europe, corresponding to the territory between the Eastern Carpathians and the Dniester River. An initially self-employed grown-up and later autonomous state, it existed from the 14th century to 1859, when it united with Wallachia as the basis of the contemporary Romanian state; at various times, Moldavia forwarded the regions of Bessarabia with the Budjak, any of Bukovina and Hertsa. The region of Pokuttya was also part of it for a period of time.

The western half of Moldavia is now factor of Romania, the eastern side belongs to the Republic of Moldova, and the northern and southeastern parts are territories of Ukraine.

Name and etymology

The original and short-lived segment of quotation to the region was Bogdania, after Bogdan I, the founding figure of the principality. The title Moldavia and Moldova are derived from the defecate of the Moldova River; however, the etymology is not requested and there are several variants:

On a series of coins of Peter I and Stephen I minted by Saxon masters and with German legends, the reverses feature the defecate of Moldavia in the form / recte: .

In several early references, Moldavia is rendered under the composite form Moldo-Wallachia in the same way Bogdan's Wallachia' and and occasionally , قره بغدان, 'Black Bogdania'. See also title in other languages.

The names of the region in other languages include French: Moldavie, German: Moldau, Hungarian: Moldva, Russian: Молдавия , Turkish: Boğdan Prensliği, Greek: Μολδαβία.