Moldova. Moldova i/mɔːlˈdoʊvə/,[nb 1][nb 2] officially the Republic of Moldova (Romanian: Republica Moldova pronounced [reˈpublika molˈdova]) is a landlocked[7] country in Eastern Europe located between Romania to its west and Ukraine to its north, east and south. Its capital city is Chișinău. Moldova declared itself an independent state with the same boundaries as the Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic in 1991 as part of the dissolution of the Soviet Union. A new constitution was adopted on July 29, 1994. As a result of a decrease in industrial and agricultural output since the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the relative size of the service sector in Moldova's economy has grown to dominate its GDP and currently stands at over 60%. Moldova is a parliamentary republic with a president as head of state and a prime minister as head of government.
Etymology[edit] History[edit] Prehistory[edit] Antiquity and Middle Ages[edit] In antiquity, Moldova's territory was inhabited by Dacian tribes. Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic. The Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic (Moldovan/Romanian: Република Советикэ Сочиалистэ Молдовеняскэ or Republica Sovietică Socialistă Moldovenească; Russian: Молда́вская Сове́тская Социалисти́ческая Респу́блика Moldavskaya Sovetskaya Sotsialisticheskaya Respublika), commonly abbreviated as the Moldavian SSR or MSSR, was one of the fifteen republics of the Soviet Union. After the Declaration of Sovereignty on June 23, 1990 and until the Declaration of Independence on August 27, 1991, it was officially referred to as the Soviet Socialist Republic of Moldova.
Upon gaining formal independence, it became the Republic of Moldova. The Moldavian SSR was formed on August 2, 1940 from parts of Bessarabia, a region annexed from Romania on June 28 of that year, and MASSR, an autonomous republic within the Ukrainian SSR. History[edit] Creation[edit] Stalinist period: repressions and deportations[edit] Stalinist period: collectivisation[edit] Khrushchev Thaw: 1956-1964[edit] Independence[edit]
Moldovan Declaration of Independence. The Declaration of Independence of the Republic of Moldova (Romanian: Declarația de independență a Republicii Moldova) was a document adopted by the Parliament of the Republic of Moldova following the failure of the August coup attempt. The Republic of Moldova gained official recognition of statehood on 2 March 1992, by becoming a member of the United Nations. The original document was approved and signed by 278 parliament deputies on 27 August 1991 was burned during 2009 Chișinău riots, but an identical document was restored in 2010.[3][4] The Moldovan Declaration of Independence clearly and directly claims Moldovan sovereignty over the territory of Transnistria as it is "a component part of the historical and ethnic territory of our people".
See also[edit] References[edit] External links[edit] Declaration of Independence of the Republic of Moldova. Moldavia; a flourishing orchard : Diorditsa, Aleksandr Filippovich, 1911- Moldova: Arena of International Influences. Stephen the Great and Balkan Nationalism: Moldova and Eastern European History - Jonathan Eagles. The Moldovans: Romania, Russia, and the Politics of Culture - Charles King.