Moldavia
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- proper noun
- /moʊlˈdeɪviə/
- Moldavia's Supreme Soviet has almost equal numbers of separatist and pro-Moscow deputies.
- Moldavia is Moldova
- republic of Moldavia
- Soviet Moldavia
Examples
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I might add, there are companies other than Colbyco interested in investing in Moldavia.
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A region known as Moldavia remained to the west of the Prut in Romania.
Academic text (2006) -
I had never been to Moldavia.
Fiction book (2002) -
The history of ancient Moldavia is carved in these stones.
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Celts and Thracians engaged in military campaigns against the Scythians in Moldavia and southern Ukraine.
Academic text (2000) -
The three Baltic republics, Moldavia, and Armenia were considered oblast-level units for this study because they contain no oblasts or autonomous ethnic areas.
Academic text (1990) -
The district I am to enter is in the extreme east of the country... ...just on the borders of three states... ...Transylvania, Moldavia and Bukovina... ...in the midst of the Carpathian Mountains... ...one of the wildest and least known portions of Europe.
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The history of ancient Moldavia is carved in these stones.
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A region known as Moldavia remained to the west of the Prut in Romania.
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Ethnically, linguistically, and historically, Moldavia is part of Romania, and some Moldavians now talk of reunification.
Synonyms
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5.0
A landlocked country in eastern Europe between Romania and Ukraine
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5.6
A country in eastern Europe with no sea coast that became independent from the Soviet Union in 1991
Surface Forms
Etymology
Moldavia comes from the name of the Moldova river, which gave its name to the land beside it. A helpful old story even says the river was named after a hunter's dog called 'Moldova', but the main point is simple: Moldavia means the region 'around' the Moldova river, which is why it names the old principality and the modern country.