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MOLDOVA

The Republic of Moldova (Moldavia) is a country in eastern Europe. The language is Romanian, Ukrainian and Russian. The area of Moldova was known as Bessarabia from the 10th to the 12 centuries when the area was ruled by the Kiev Rus and from the 15th century when it was a Romanian principality within the Ottoman Empire the area was known as Moldavia. In 1812 the area was ceeded to Russia. In 1917, during the Russian revolution an independent Bessarabian republic was declared, only for the area to be invaded by the Bolsheviks in 1918 and the region to become part of the kingdom of Romania. In 1944 the USSR invaded and took control of the area naming it the Moldavian Soviet Republic. Following the dissolution of the USSR in 1991 the area became independent Moldova..
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