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Between 1821 and 1862, various systems combining election and appointment were put in practice. Moldavian monarchs, like Wallachian and other Eastern European monarchs, bore the titles of Voivode or/and Hospodar (when writing in Romanian, the term Domn (from the Latin dominus) was used).
Early history. Moldova. Bessarabia —the name often given to the region of historical Moldavia between the Dniester and Prut rivers—has a long and stormy history. Part of Scythia in the 1st millennium bce, Bessarabia later came marginally under the control of the Roman Empire as part of Dacia.
Moldavia. Moldavia (Romanian: Moldova, pronounced [molˈdova] ⓘ or Țara Moldovei lit. 'The country of Moldova'; in Romanian Cyrillic: Молдова or Цара Мѡлдовєй) is a historical region and former principality in Central and Eastern Europe, corresponding to the territory between the Eastern Carpathians and the Dniester River.
At that time voevod (thus were called the rulers of the country at the time) Bogdan and Moldovan ancestors, called vlachs, settled at Eastern Subcarpathia. In 1365 he gained recognition for Moldova as an independent state with the capital called Siret.
In 1859, when Romania (basically Wallachia) obtained nominal independence from the Ottoman empire, Russia occupied Bessarabia, and claimed Moldova. In 1878, during the Congress of Berlin Romania ceded Moldova to Russia in exchange for access to the Black Sea (the northern Dobruja region).
Jul 15, 2019 · This name is rooted back to the time of the reign of Bogdan I (or Bogdan the Founder) which spanned the years 1359 to 1367. Moldova was also once called Bogdania, again in connection with the Romanian founder of the region. Moldova was also once known as Bessarabia.
4 days ago · On July 11 the districts of central Bessarabia inhabited predominantly by Moldavians were joined to part of the autonomous Moldavian republic across the Dniester to form, in August, a Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic (S.S.R.), with Chișinău as its capital.
