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Bessarabia

Former region in southeastern Europe, bordering on the Black Sea and standing between the Prut and Dniester rivers. Its capital was at Kishinev. The region is now divided between the states of Moldova and Ukraine.

Bessarabia takes its name from the Basarabs, a Moldavian princely dynasty that ruled the territory in the Middle Ages. It came under the control of the Ottoman Empire from 1504. Bessarabia was annexed by Russia after the Russo-Turkish War of 1812, but broke away at the Russian Revolution to join Romania. Russia never recognized this secession in the peace treaties following World War I, and the USSR reoccupied Bessarabia in 1940, dividing it between the Moldavian and Ukrainian Soviet republics.



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