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/mˌoʊldˈeɪviə/ /mˌoʊldˈɑviə/ Listen

Moldavia

noun

A landlocked republic in eastern Europe; formerly a European soviet but achieved independence in 1991. Synonyms: Moldova, Republic of Moldova.

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"Moldavia" Quotes from Famous Books

... facts because our education is such as to make us ignore such vital issues. But only because we do not know ought we forsake Bessarabia?... Or is it that the national ideal of Rumania is to live at the mercy of Russia, by abandoning old Moldavia? ...

— New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 4, July, 1915 - April-September, 1915 • Various

... which the hordes of invaders, passing from Russia to Asia, were in a sense made one people. The Goths, the Huns, the Lombards, the Bulgars and the Magyars traversed the region, leaving many settlers. It became divided into two provinces, Moldavia and Wallachia, ...

— Kelly Miller's History of the World War for Human Rights • Kelly Miller

... extended to Wallachia and Moldavia, and no other Christian race in the Othoman dominions was exposed to so long a period of unmitigated extortion and cruelty as the Roman population of these principalities. The Treaty of Kainardji which ...

— The World's Greatest Books, Vol XII. - Modern History • Arthur Mee

... Doernberg, Schill, and Luetzow fell resultless on the indifference of the people. Only Turkey remained a faithful ally, and the assurance that the Mussulman would protect Hungary in the rear against an invasion on the part of Moldavia was the only ray of light amid the darkness ...

— The Nameless Castle • Maurus Jokai

Words linked to "Moldavia" : Moldova, CIS, European nation, European country, Europe, Chisinau, Commonwealth of Independent States, Kishinev, Republic of Moldova, capital of Moldova