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US
/ˌmoʊɫˈdɑviə, ˌmoʊɫˈdeɪviə/
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NOUN
- a landlocked republic in eastern Europe; formerly a European soviet but achieved independence in 1991
How To Use Moldavia In A Sentence
- The play attracted a great deal of interest: the leading members of the State Yiddish Theater in Moscow (known by the acronym GOSET) came to see it, and the work was the first of several plays to tour other performance halls throughout the Moldavian Republic, including Tiraspol and Chernovtsy. Romanian Yiddish Theater.
- Moldavia refused to hold the referendum on the grounds that it would worsen ethnic tensions in the republic.
- He was forthwith joined by Stephen, waiwode of Moldavia, with great part of the Moldavian and Wallachian troops, who unexpectedly deserted the standards of the crescent; and, after several partial encounters, a general engagement took place, November 11, 1673, between the Polish army and the advanced divisions of the Ottomans under the serasker Hussein, pasha of Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843
- Gorbachev threatened to declare a state of emergency throughout Moldavia.
- June 25: Moldavia's President Snegur announced that the republic would hold a referendum on independence in the autumn.
- In October he was seized with what he called Moldavian fever, a disease which came, he said, from the swamps of the Danube, and ravaged the Odessa district and the steppes; and again he became dangerously ill. Honore de Balzac, His Life and Writings
- Moldavia, by the so-called Phanariote governors or farmers-general of the Porte. Roumania Past and Present
- Moldavia and Wallachia contain the descendants of the Roman colonists who speak a perverted Latin. Roumania Past and Present
- Watson racked up a total of $77,147 during competition after wagering $17,973 that "Who is Bram Stoker?" was the correct question to the clue: "William Wilkinson's 'An Account of the Principalities of Wallachia and Moldavia' inspired this author's most famous novel. On 'Jeopardy!,' rise of the machine: Computer competitor rakes in ratings
- Wallachia and Moldavia became tributaries of the Ottoman Empire from the fifteenth to the nineteenth centuries, but kept their own princes.
