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Moldova

11 periods and events, 1346 – 1994.

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Periods and events

When	Period or event	Kind	Source
1346 – 1859	Principality of Moldavia摩尔达维亚公国 A Romanian principality between the Carpathians and the Dniester.	Dynasty or era	Source
1457 – 1504	Stephen the Great斯特凡大公 The prince resists the Ottomans for decades and builds painted monasteries.	Dynasty or era	Source
1538 – 1812	Ottoman suzerainty奥斯曼宗主统治 Moldavia keeps its princes but pays tribute to the sultan.	Colonial	Source
1812 – 1917	Russian Bessarabia俄属比萨拉比亚 Russia annexes the land between the Prut and Dniester.	Colonial	Source
1918 – 1940	Union with Romania与罗马尼亚合并 Bessarabia votes to join Romania.	Politics	Source
1940 – 1991	Moldavian SSR摩尔达维亚苏维埃社会主义共和国 The USSR annexes Bessarabia and forms a Soviet republic.	Politics	Source
1946 – 1947	Postwar famine战后饥荒 Drought and Soviet grain requisitions cause a deadly famine.	Other	Source
1989	Latin script restored恢复拉丁字母 The local language, written in Cyrillic under Soviet rule, returns to the Latin script.	Literature	Source
1991	Independence独立 Moldova declares independence from the USSR.	Politics	Source
1992	Transnistria War德涅斯特河沿岸战争 Russian-backed separatists take the east bank of the Dniester, a frozen conflict ever since.	War	Source
1994	Gagauzia autonomy加告兹自治 The Turkic Gagauz people receive an autonomous region.	Politics	Source

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