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Encyclopedia: Dniester

The Dniester (Ukrainian: Дністер, translit. Dnister; Romanian: Nistru) is a river in Eastern Europe.

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How to say "Dniester" in other languages:

	(Japanese)	ドニエストル川
	(German)	Dnister
	(Spanish)	Nistru
	(French)	Dniestr
	(Italian)	Nistro

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Dniestr

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Podolia

. Podolia lies: south of Volhynia west of the Kyiv region northeast of Moldova, across the Dniester River east of Galicia, across the Zbrucz, or Rodvocha, a tributary of the Dniester It has an area of about 40,000 km², extending for 320 km from N.W. to S.E. on the left bank of the Dniester. In the same...

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Tighina

Tighina , or Tigina , is a city in Moldova. It was formerly known as Bendery (Turkish: Bender ). A settlement has existed at the confluence of the Dniester and Bâc rivers since the 2nd century, subsequently growing and coming under the successive rules of Kiev, Moldavia, Genoa, Turkey, Russia and...

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Ermanaric

Ermanaric (d. between 370 and 376) was a King of the Ostrogoths. As king, he ruled a vast empire in the Ukraine. The exact limits of his territory are obscure, but it seems to have stretched south of the Pripet Marshes between the Don and Dniester rivers. Ermanaric's name in his native Gothic was...

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Latin names of European rivers

Tyras Dniester (Nistru) Viadua, Viadrua, Odera Oder ( Odra ) Vistula Vistula (Wisła, Weichsel...

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Moldavia

Moldavia (Romanian: Moldova ) was a principality of Romania, originally created in the Middle Ages. It was situated between the Carpathian Mountains and the Prut River. At times its authority extended farther eastward to the Dniester River. The more easterly extension now forming the ethnically...

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Red Ruthenia

extended up to Dniester River, with priority gradually transferred to Przemysl. Since the times of...

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Treaty of Nissa

successful raids led by Marshal Munich, the Russians broke the resistance of the Tatars, cross the Dniester...

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Foreign relations of Moldova

Nistru (Dniester) River and Ukraine, has its own de facto government, dominated by Moldovan Slavs...

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Transnistria

from it being the area of Moldava east of the river Nistru (Dniester). Political status It is...

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