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href="/wiki/History_of_Maramure%C8%99" title="History of Maramureș">Maramureș</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Moldavia" title="Moldavia">Moldavia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Muntenia" title="Muntenia">Muntenia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oltenia" title="Oltenia">Oltenia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/History_of_Transylvania" title="History of Transylvania">Transylvania</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wallachia" title="Wallachia">Wallachia</a></li></ul> </div></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-below"> <span class="nowrap"><span class="mw-image-border noviewer" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="flag" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/Flag_of_Romania.svg/16px-Flag_of_Romania.svg.png" decoding="async" width="16" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/Flag_of_Romania.svg/24px-Flag_of_Romania.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/Flag_of_Romania.svg/32px-Flag_of_Romania.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="400" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Portal:Romania" title="Portal:Romania">Romania portal</a></td></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-navbar"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239400231"><div class="navbar plainlinks hlist navbar-mini"><ul><li class="nv-view"><a href="/wiki/Template:History_of_Romania" title="Template:History of Romania"><abbr title="View this template">v</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-talk"><a href="/wiki/Template_talk:History_of_Romania" title="Template talk:History of Romania"><abbr title="Discuss this template">t</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-edit"><a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Template:History_of_Romania" title="Special:EditPage/Template:History of Romania"><abbr title="Edit this template">e</abbr></a></li></ul></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>The <b>union of Bessarabia with Romania</b> was proclaimed on April 9 [<a href="/wiki/Old_Style_and_New_Style_dates" title="Old Style and New Style dates">O.S.</a> March 27] 1918 by <a href="/wiki/Sfatul_%C8%9A%C4%83rii" title="Sfatul Țării">Sfatul Țării</a>, the legislative body of the <a href="/wiki/Moldavian_Democratic_Republic" title="Moldavian Democratic Republic">Moldavian Democratic Republic</a>. This state had the same borders of the region of <a href="/wiki/Bessarabia" title="Bessarabia">Bessarabia</a>, which was annexed by the <a href="/wiki/Russian_Empire" title="Russian Empire">Russian Empire</a> following the <a href="/wiki/Treaty_of_Bucharest_(1812)" title="Treaty of Bucharest (1812)">Treaty of Bucharest</a> of 1812 and organized first as an <i><a href="/wiki/Oblast" title="Oblast">Oblast</a></i> (autonomous until 1828) and later as a <a href="/wiki/Bessarabia_Governorate" title="Bessarabia Governorate">Governorate</a>. Under Russian rule, many of the native <a href="/wiki/Tatars" title="Tatars">Tatars</a> were expelled from parts of Bessarabia and replaced with <a href="/wiki/Moldavia" title="Moldavia">Moldavians</a>, <a href="/wiki/Wallachia" title="Wallachia">Wallachians</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bulgarians" title="Bulgarians">Bulgarians</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ukrainians" title="Ukrainians">Ukrainians</a>, <a href="/wiki/Greeks" title="Greeks">Greeks</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Russians" title="Russians">Russians</a>, <a href="/wiki/Lipovans" title="Lipovans">Lipovans</a>, <a href="/wiki/Cossacks" title="Cossacks">Cossacks</a>, <a href="/wiki/Gagauzes" class="mw-redirect" title="Gagauzes">Gagauzes</a> and other peoples, although colonization was not limited to formerly Tatar-inhabited lands. Russia also tried to integrate the region by imposing the Russian language in administration and restricting education in other languages, notably by later banning the use of Romanian in schools and print.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The beginning of <a href="/wiki/World_War_I" title="World War I">World War I</a> saw an increase in national awareness among the Bessarabians, and, following the beginning of the <a href="/wiki/Russian_Revolution" title="Russian Revolution">Russian Revolution</a> in 1917, Bessarabia proclaimed its own parliament, the <i><a href="/wiki/Sfatul_%C8%9A%C4%83rii" title="Sfatul Țării">Sfatul Țării</a></i>, which declared the <a href="/wiki/Moldavian_Democratic_Republic" title="Moldavian Democratic Republic">Moldavian Democratic Republic</a>. Following a <a href="/wiki/Romanian_military_intervention_in_Bessarabia" title="Romanian military intervention in Bessarabia">Romanian military intervention</a>, with the Romanian Army firmly in control of the region, the <i>Sfatul Țării</i> voted for independence and later proclaimed, on April 9 [<a href="/wiki/Old_Style_and_New_Style_dates" title="Old Style and New Style dates">O.S.</a> March 27] 1918, its union with the <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Romania" title="Kingdom of Romania">Kingdom of Romania</a>. Although the unification was made under various conditions, all of these except the promise of an <a href="/wiki/Agrarian_reform" title="Agrarian reform">agrarian reform</a>, which was carried out, were later abandoned by a minority of the Sfatul. Later, the Romanian administration swiftly dissolved the assembly and rejected the protests of the former deputies. In the peace talks after World War I, the European powers awarded Bessarabia to Romania, although the newly formed <a href="/wiki/Russian_SSR" class="mw-redirect" title="Russian SSR">Russian SSR</a>, and the <a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">United States</a> never recognized this. </p><p>However, the situation in Bessarabia would change after the signing of the <a href="/wiki/Molotov%E2%80%93Ribbentrop_Pact" title="Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact">Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact</a> between the <a href="/wiki/Soviet_Union" title="Soviet Union">Soviet Union</a> (USSR) and <a href="/wiki/Nazi_Germany" title="Nazi Germany">Nazi Germany</a>, in which the latter expressed its disinterest in the region. This allowed the USSR to send an <a href="/wiki/Ultimatum" title="Ultimatum">ultimatum</a> to Romania, which was now diplomatically isolated following the capitulation of France, the guarantor of its borders, on 26 June 1940 in which it demanded Bessarabia and also <a href="/wiki/Northern_Bukovina" class="mw-redirect" title="Northern Bukovina">Northern Bukovina</a> (which had not been agreed upon with Germany). After Romania accepted it, the USSR <a href="/wiki/Soviet_occupation_of_Bessarabia_and_Northern_Bukovina" title="Soviet occupation of Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina">invaded</a> these territories, ending Romanian administration of the zone (excepting a brief interruption from 1941-1944, when Romania reacquired these territories). Bessarabia was organized and split between the <a href="/wiki/Ukrainian_SSR" class="mw-redirect" title="Ukrainian SSR">Ukrainian SSR</a> and the new <a href="/wiki/Moldavian_SSR" class="mw-redirect" title="Moldavian SSR">Moldavian SSR</a>, which gained independence in 1991 as Moldova. Ever since, there has been a growing <a href="/wiki/Unification_of_Moldova_and_Romania" title="Unification of Moldova and Romania">movement to reunite the region with Romania</a>, with supporters in <a href="/wiki/Romania" title="Romania">Romania</a> and Moldova commemorating the day of the union, 27 March, on the <a href="/wiki/Day_of_the_Union_of_Bessarabia_with_Romania" title="Day of the Union of Bessarabia with Romania">Day of the Union of Bessarabia with Romania</a>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Governorate_of_Bessarabia">Governorate of Bessarabia</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Union_of_Bessarabia_with_Romania&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Governorate of Bessarabia"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Bessarabia_Governorate" title="Bessarabia Governorate">Bessarabia Governorate</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Rumania%27s_sacrifice;_her_past,_present,_and_future_(1918)_(14782042505).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e5/Rumania%27s_sacrifice%3B_her_past%2C_present%2C_and_future_%281918%29_%2814782042505%29.jpg/220px-Rumania%27s_sacrifice%3B_her_past%2C_present%2C_and_future_%281918%29_%2814782042505%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="160" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e5/Rumania%27s_sacrifice%3B_her_past%2C_present%2C_and_future_%281918%29_%2814782042505%29.jpg/330px-Rumania%27s_sacrifice%3B_her_past%2C_present%2C_and_future_%281918%29_%2814782042505%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e5/Rumania%27s_sacrifice%3B_her_past%2C_present%2C_and_future_%281918%29_%2814782042505%29.jpg/440px-Rumania%27s_sacrifice%3B_her_past%2C_present%2C_and_future_%281918%29_%2814782042505%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2228" data-file-height="1624" /></a><figcaption>1918 map of the region</figcaption></figure> <p>The <a href="/wiki/Treaty_of_Bucharest_(1812)" title="Treaty of Bucharest (1812)">1812 Treaty of Bucharest</a> between the <a href="/wiki/Ottoman_Empire" title="Ottoman Empire">Ottoman Empire</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Russian_Empire" title="Russian Empire">Russian Empires</a> provided for Russian <a href="/wiki/Annexation" title="Annexation">annexation</a> of the eastern part of the territory of the <a href="/wiki/Principality_of_Moldavia" class="mw-redirect" title="Principality of Moldavia">Principality of Moldavia</a>, as well as the Turkish-ruled regions of <a href="/wiki/Khotyn" title="Khotyn">Khotyn</a> and Budjak (Southern Bessarabia). At first, the Russians used the name "<a href="/wiki/Oblast" title="Oblast">Oblast</a> of Moldova and Bessarabia", allowing a large degree of autonomy, but in 1828 Russia suspended the self-administration and called it the <a href="/wiki/Governorate_(Russia)" title="Governorate (Russia)">Governorate</a> of Bessarabia, or simply Bessarabia. While the northeastern part of Moldavia, called <a href="/wiki/Bukovina" title="Bukovina">Bukovina</a>, was similarly annexed by the <a href="/wiki/Austrian_Empire" title="Austrian Empire">Austrian Empire</a>, the western part of Moldavia remained an autonomous principality, and in 1859, <a href="/wiki/Unification_of_Moldavia_and_Wallachia" title="Unification of Moldavia and Wallachia">united</a> with <a href="/wiki/Wallachia" title="Wallachia">Wallachia</a> to form the <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Romania" title="Kingdom of Romania">Kingdom of Romania</a>. In 1856, the Treaty of Paris returned the south of Bessarabia to Moldavia, but in 1878, the Kingdom of Romania returned them to the Russian Empire as a result of the <a href="/wiki/Treaty_of_Berlin_(1878)" title="Treaty of Berlin (1878)">Treaty of Berlin</a>. </p><p>At the time of annexation, Moldavian<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> population predominated in Bessarabia.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <a href="/wiki/Colonization" title="Colonization">colonization</a> of the region in the 19th century led to a large increase in the <a href="/wiki/Russians" title="Russians">Russian</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ukrainians" title="Ukrainians">Ukrainian</a>, <a href="/wiki/Lipovans" title="Lipovans">Lipovan</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Cossacks" title="Cossacks">Cossack</a> population in the region; this together with a large influx of <a href="/wiki/Bulgarians" title="Bulgarians">Bulgarian</a> immigrants increased the <a href="/wiki/Slavic_peoples" class="mw-redirect" title="Slavic peoples">Slavic</a> population to more than a fifth of the total population by 1920.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Other groups, such as <a href="/wiki/Gagauz_people" title="Gagauz people">Gagauz</a>, <a href="/wiki/Jew" class="mw-redirect" title="Jew">Jews</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Bessarabia_Germans" title="Bessarabia Germans">Germans</a> also settled in the region during the Russian rule. </p><p>The Tsarist policy in Bessarabia was in part aimed at <a href="/wiki/Denationalization" class="mw-redirect" title="Denationalization">denationalization</a> of the Moldavian element by forbidding after the 1860s education and <a href="/wiki/Divine_Liturgy" title="Divine Liturgy">Liturgy</a> in Romanian. However, the effect was an extremely low literacy rate (in 1897, 18% for males and 4% for females) rather than denationalization.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Some Romanian historians claimed that a strong sentiment of frustration and resentment to the Russian control had started to appear before the beginning of World War I.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Moldavian_Democratic_Republic">Moldavian Democratic Republic</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Union_of_Bessarabia_with_Romania&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Moldavian Democratic Republic"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main articles: <a href="/wiki/Sfatul_%C8%9A%C4%83rii" title="Sfatul Țării">Sfatul Țării</a> and <a href="/wiki/Moldavian_Democratic_Republic" title="Moldavian Democratic Republic">Moldavian Democratic Republic</a></div> <p>World War I brought a rise in political, cultural and national awareness in the population, as 300,000 Bessarabians enrolled in the Russian Army formed in 1917, within bigger units several "Moldavian Soldiers' Committees". Following the <a href="/wiki/Russian_Revolution_of_1917" class="mw-redirect" title="Russian Revolution of 1917">Russian Revolution of 1917</a>, Bessarabia elected its own parliament, <i><a href="/wiki/Sfatul_%C8%9A%C4%83rii" title="Sfatul Țării">Sfatul Țării</a></i> (October–November 1917), which opened on December 3 [<a href="/wiki/Old_Style_and_New_Style_dates" title="Old Style and New Style dates">O.S.</a> November 21] 1917, proclaimed the <a href="/wiki/Moldavian_Democratic_Republic" title="Moldavian Democratic Republic">Moldavian Democratic Republic</a> (December 15 [<a href="/wiki/Old_Style_and_New_Style_dates" title="Old Style and New Style dates">O.S.</a> December 2] 1917), formed its government (December 21 [<a href="/wiki/Old_Style_and_New_Style_dates" title="Old Style and New Style dates">O.S.</a> December 8] 1917), proclaimed independence from Russia (February 6 [<a href="/wiki/Old_Style_and_New_Style_dates" title="Old Style and New Style dates">O.S.</a> January 24] 1918). </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="The_Union_Act">The Union Act</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Union_of_Bessarabia_with_Romania&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: The Union Act"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:1918.4.9REGAT.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1d/1918.4.9REGAT.png/220px-1918.4.9REGAT.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="124" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1d/1918.4.9REGAT.png/330px-1918.4.9REGAT.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1d/1918.4.9REGAT.png/440px-1918.4.9REGAT.png 2x" data-file-width="3445" data-file-height="1937" /></a><figcaption>The Carpatho-Danubian-Pontic Space on 9 April 1918, after the Sfatul Tarii of the Moldovan Democratic Republic voted to unite with Romania.</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Unification_of_Romania_%26_Bessarabia.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/24/Unification_of_Romania_%26_Bessarabia.jpg/220px-Unification_of_Romania_%26_Bessarabia.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="385" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/24/Unification_of_Romania_%26_Bessarabia.jpg/330px-Unification_of_Romania_%26_Bessarabia.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/24/Unification_of_Romania_%26_Bessarabia.jpg/440px-Unification_of_Romania_%26_Bessarabia.jpg 2x" data-file-width="488" data-file-height="854" /></a><figcaption>The Union Act of 1918.</figcaption></figure> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Ethnological_map_by_Kiepert_1876.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/23/Ethnological_map_by_Kiepert_1876.jpg/300px-Ethnological_map_by_Kiepert_1876.jpg" decoding="async" width="300" height="236" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/23/Ethnological_map_by_Kiepert_1876.jpg/450px-Ethnological_map_by_Kiepert_1876.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/23/Ethnological_map_by_Kiepert_1876.jpg/600px-Ethnological_map_by_Kiepert_1876.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1122" data-file-height="881" /></a><figcaption>The ethnological map of the Romanian population by <a href="/wiki/Heinrich_Kiepert" title="Heinrich Kiepert">Heinrich Kiepert</a>, 1876.</figcaption></figure> <p>On April 9 [<a href="/wiki/Old_Style_and_New_Style_dates" title="Old Style and New Style dates">O.S.</a> March 27] 1918, Sfatul Țării decided with 86 votes for, 3 against and 36 abstaining (mostly non-Romanians), for union with the Kingdom of Romania, conditional upon the fulfillment of agrarian reform, local autonomy, and respect for universal human rights.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This was in spite of the fact that the national referendum necessary under the law had not taken place. </p><p>Fearing a radical land reform, the county councils of Bălți, Soroca and Orhei, dominated by large landowners, were the earliest to ask for unification with the Kingdom of Romania, deeming the royal government preferable to the Sfatul Țării, dominated by left-wing populists. On April 9 [O.S. March 27] 1918, Sfatul Țării voted in favour of the union, with the following conditions: </p> <ol><li>Sfatul Țării would undertake an agrarian reform, which would be accepted by the Romanian Government.</li> <li>Bessarabia would remain autonomous, with its own diet, Sfatul Țării, elected democratically</li> <li>Sfatul Țării would vote for local budgets, control the councils of zemstvos and cities, and name the local administration</li> <li>Conscription would be done on a territorial basis</li> <li>Local laws and the form of administration could be changed only with the approval of local representatives</li> <li>The rights of minorities had to be respected</li> <li>Two Bessarabian representatives would be part of the Romanian government</li> <li>Bessarabia would send to the Romanian Parliament a number of representatives equal to the proportion of its population</li> <li>All elections must involve a direct, equal, secret, and universal vote</li> <li>Freedom of speech and of belief must be guaranteed in the constitution</li> <li>All individuals who had committed felonies for political reasons during the revolution would be amnestied.</li></ol> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Greater_Romania">Greater Romania</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Union_of_Bessarabia_with_Romania&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Greater Romania"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Greater_Romania" title="Greater Romania">Greater Romania</a></div> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Bessarabia_region.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e7/Bessarabia_region.png/300px-Bessarabia_region.png" decoding="async" width="300" height="227" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e7/Bessarabia_region.png/450px-Bessarabia_region.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e7/Bessarabia_region.png/600px-Bessarabia_region.png 2x" data-file-width="622" data-file-height="470" /></a><figcaption>Bessarabia in yellow and Northern Bukovina in grey, as a parts of <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Romania" title="Kingdom of Romania">Kingdom of Romania</a>. <i>Note: the region past the <a href="/wiki/Dniester_river" class="mw-redirect" title="Dniester river">Dniester river</a> was a part of <a href="/wiki/Romania" title="Romania">Romania</a> only briefly, during World War II</i></figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Unirea_Basarabiei_1918-1928.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/18/Unirea_Basarabiei_1918-1928.jpg/220px-Unirea_Basarabiei_1918-1928.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="136" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/18/Unirea_Basarabiei_1918-1928.jpg/330px-Unirea_Basarabiei_1918-1928.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/18/Unirea_Basarabiei_1918-1928.jpg 2x" data-file-width="405" data-file-height="250" /></a><figcaption>Romanian stamp commemorating 10 years of the Union</figcaption></figure> <p>There were 86 votes for, 3 votes against and 36 deputies abstained. The first condition for agrarian reform was debated and approved in November 1918, and following this, Sfatul Țării voted a motion which removed all the other conditions, trusting that Romania would be a democratic country. The vote, which renounced Bessarabia's autonomy, has been judged illegitimate, since there was no quorum: only 44 of the 125 members took part in it (all voted "for").<sup id="cite_ref-:1_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The historian <a href="/wiki/Bernard_Newman_(author)" class="mw-redirect" title="Bernard Newman (author)">Bernard Newman</a>, who traveled by bicycle through the whole of <a href="/wiki/Greater_Romania" title="Greater Romania">Greater Romania</a>, claimed there is little doubt that the vote represented the prevailing wish in Bessarabia and that the events leading to the unification indicate there was no question of a "seizure", but a voluntary act on the part of its people.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The Romanian prime-minister at the time, <a href="/wiki/Alexandru_Marghiloman" title="Alexandru Marghiloman">Alexandru Marghiloman</a>, was to admit however that the unification was decided in Romania, as the Moldavian leaders <a href="/wiki/Daniel_Ciugureanu" title="Daniel Ciugureanu">Daniel Ciugureanu</a> and <a href="/wiki/Ion_Incule%C8%9B" title="Ion Inculeț">Ion Inculeț</a>, aware of the widespread distrust of Romanian rule, feared an overt annexation would lead to a revolutionary situation.<sup id="cite_ref-Meurs68-69_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Meurs68-69-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In the autumn of 1919, general elections were held in Bessarabia to elect 90 deputies and 35 senators to the Romanian parliament – the Constituent Assembly. On 20 December 1919, the elected representatives ratified, along with their colleagues from the other historic provinces, the unification acts that had been approved by <a href="/wiki/Sfatul_%C8%9A%C4%83rii" title="Sfatul Țării">Sfatul Țării</a> and the National Congresses in <a href="/wiki/Transylvania" title="Transylvania">Transylvania</a> and <a href="/wiki/Bukovina" title="Bukovina">Bukovina</a>. </p><p>During the peace talks between the Great Powers and Romania, on 1 February 1919, British Prime Minister <a href="/wiki/David_Lloyd_George" title="David Lloyd George">David Lloyd George</a> talked with <a href="/wiki/Ion_I._C._Br%C4%83tianu" title="Ion I. C. Brătianu">Ion I. C. Brătianu</a> and, after the withdrawal of the Romanian government's delegation, Lloyd George proposed that Romania's claims be analyzed by a territorial commission that would examine historical, ethnographic, geographic, strategic, but not political facts.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Territorial Commission on Romanian Affairs was formed, by which the representatives of the Big Four Powers presented their proposals and decided Romanian's territorial future. The commission was formed by <a href="/wiki/Clive_Day" title="Clive Day">Clive Day</a> and <a href="/wiki/Charles_Seymour" title="Charles Seymour">Charles Seymour</a> (USA), <a href="/wiki/Eyre_Crowe" title="Eyre Crowe">Sir Eyre Crowe</a> and <a href="/w/index.php?title=Alan_Leeper&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Alan Leeper (page does not exist)">Alan Leeper</a> (United Kingdom), <a href="/wiki/Andr%C3%A9_Tardieu" title="André Tardieu">André Tardieu</a> and Guy Laroche (France), and <a href="/wiki/Giacomo_De_Martino" title="Giacomo De Martino">Giacomo De Martino</a> and <a href="/wiki/Luigi_Vannutelli-Rey" class="mw-redirect" title="Luigi Vannutelli-Rey">Count Luigi Vannutelli-Rey</a> (Italy). During the debates the only issue related to Romania on which the representatives agreed was that Bessarabia should belong to Romania.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, the United States refused to sign the Treaty on the grounds that Russia was not represented at the conference.<sup id="cite_ref-Wayne_S_Vucinich_1967_p._103_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Wayne_S_Vucinich_1967_p._103-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The newly communist Russia did not recognize Romanian rule over Bessarabia,<sup id="cite_ref-Wayne_S_Vucinich_1967_p._103_17-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Wayne_S_Vucinich_1967_p._103-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> a stand that was tacitly accepted by many other countries such as the United States. </p><p>The union was recognized by the United Kingdom, France and Italy in the <a href="/wiki/Treaty_of_Paris_(1920)" title="Treaty of Paris (1920)">Treaty of Paris (1920)</a>. The treaty did not, however, come into force as Japan, one of the signatories, failed to ratify it. Soviet Russia was not represented as a party at the treaty conference.<sup id="cite_ref-Wayne_S_Vucinich_1967_p._103_17-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Wayne_S_Vucinich_1967_p._103-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A mutual treaty between the Soviets and Romania was not signed due to the former's claims over Bessarabia. In the <a href="/wiki/Kellogg-Briand_Treaty" class="mw-redirect" title="Kellogg-Briand Treaty">Kellogg-Briand Treaty</a> of 1928 and the <a href="/wiki/War_of_aggression#The_Convention_for_the_Definition_of_Aggression" title="War of aggression">Treaty of London</a> of July 1933, the Soviet Union and Romania subscribed to the principle of non-violent resolution of territorial disputes. <a href="/wiki/Transnistria" title="Transnistria">Transnistria</a>, at the time part of the <a href="/wiki/Ukrainian_SSR" class="mw-redirect" title="Ukrainian SSR">Ukrainian SSR</a>, itself part of the <a href="/wiki/Soviet_Union" title="Soviet Union">Soviet Union</a>, was formed into the <a href="/wiki/Moldavian_ASSR" class="mw-redirect" title="Moldavian ASSR">Moldavian ASSR</a> (1924–1940) after the failure of the <a href="/wiki/Tatarbunary_Uprising" title="Tatarbunary Uprising">Tatarbunar uprising</a>. </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Land_reform_in_Romania" title="Land reform in Romania">land reform</a> legislated by <i>Sfatul Țării</i> in 1918–1919 resulted in the redistribution of land among the rural population of the region, which constituted 80%. The actual process dragged out until the early 1930s, with the average allotted land falling short of the prescribed 6 hectares per eligible individual. The law was notable among Romanian controlled territories as it expropriated land not only from the large landowners, but also from the peasants who gained land by <i>ad-hoc</i> divisions of the agricultural lands during the <a href="/wiki/Russian_Revolution" title="Russian Revolution">Russian Revolution</a>. The reform was further marred by corruption and preferential allotment to Romanian state functionaries and officers, as well as to the deputies who voted for union with Romania in 1918 (the latter were allotted 50 hectares each). Under pressure from the large landowners in the original territories of Romania, the land reform required compensations to the former owners, in contrast with the earlier declarations of the <i>Sfatul Țării</i> which proposed <a href="/wiki/Confiscation" title="Confiscation">expropriation</a> of property or even <a href="/wiki/Socialization_(economics)" class="mw-redirect" title="Socialization (economics)">socialization</a>. In a bid to gain legal recognition of the union, Romanian also concluded inter-governmental accords which offered preferential compensations to deposed owners of <a href="/wiki/United_Kingdom" title="United Kingdom">British</a>, <a href="/wiki/France" title="France">French</a> and <a href="/wiki/Italy" title="Italy">Italian</a> citizenship. The literacy rate grew to over 40% by 1930; however, the region continued to lag educationally. </p><p>In 1924, <a href="/wiki/Pan_Halippa" title="Pan Halippa">Pan Halippa</a>, a strong supporter of the Union in 1918, criticized the Romanian government for transforming Bessarabia into an "<a href="/wiki/Hell" title="Hell">inferno</a>", where the "Moldavian people suffers and bleeds more than under the <a href="/wiki/Tsarist_regime" class="mw-redirect" title="Tsarist regime">Tsarist regime</a>".<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Soviet_occupation">Soviet occupation</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Union_of_Bessarabia_with_Romania&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Soviet occupation"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Soviet_occupation_of_Bessarabia_and_Northern_Bukovina" title="Soviet occupation of Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina">Soviet occupation of Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina</a></div> <p>The <i>status quo</i> was changed 22 years later, when, as a result of the <a href="/wiki/Molotov%E2%80%93Ribbentrop_Pact" title="Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact">Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact</a> (Article 4 of the <a href="/wiki/Secret_treaty" title="Secret treaty">Secret Annex</a> to the Treaty), <a href="/wiki/Nazi_Germany" title="Nazi Germany">Nazi Germany</a> agreed that it had no interest in Bessarabia, effectively yielding it to the Soviet Union. On June 26, 1940, after the <a href="/wiki/Fall_of_France" class="mw-redirect" title="Fall of France">Fall of France</a>, Romania's ally, Romania received an ultimatum from the Soviet Union demanding the evacuation of the Romanian military and administration from Bessarabia and from the northern part of Bukovina, with an implied threat of invasion in the event of noncompliance.<sup id="cite_ref-ultimatum_19-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ultimatum-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Under pressure from Moscow and Berlin, the Romanian administration and the army were forced to retreat from Bessarabia and from <a href="/wiki/Northern_Bukovina" class="mw-redirect" title="Northern Bukovina">Northern Bukovina</a> to avoid war.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On June 28, 1940, these territories were occupied by the Soviet Union. During the retreat, the Romanian Army was attacked by the Soviet Army, which entered Bessarabia before the Romanian administration finished retreating. Some 48,888 Romanian soldiers and officers were unaccounted for after the retreat, including 53 casualties. In the case of several army divisions, more than half of the personnel had deserted, choosing to remain in Bessarabia.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The southern and northern parts, whose population was just over half ethnic minorities (Ukrainians, <a href="/wiki/Bessarabian_Bulgarians" title="Bessarabian Bulgarians">Bessarabian Bulgarians</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bessarabian_Germans" class="mw-redirect" title="Bessarabian Germans">Bessarabian Germans</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Lipovans" title="Lipovans">Lipovans</a>), were transferred to the Ukrainian SSR as <a href="/wiki/Budjak" title="Budjak">Izmail Oblast</a> and as part of <a href="/wiki/Chernivtsi_Oblast" title="Chernivtsi Oblast">Chernivtsi Oblast</a>. At the same time, the Moldavian ASSR, where ethnic <a href="/wiki/Romanians" title="Romanians">Romanians</a> were a <a href="/wiki/Plurality_(voting)" title="Plurality (voting)">plurality</a>, was disbanded, and just under half of its territory was joined with the remaining territory of Bessarabia to form the <a href="/wiki/Moldavian_Soviet_Socialist_Republic" title="Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic">Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic</a>, coterminous with the present-day <a href="/wiki/Moldova" title="Moldova">Moldova</a>. Although Soviet troops were forced out in 1941 by the <a href="/wiki/Operation_Barbarossa" title="Operation Barbarossa">invasion of Axis forces</a>, and Romania re-established its administration, the Soviet Union reconquered and reannexed the area in February–August 1944. </p><p>The official Soviet policy (1940–1941, 1944–1989) also stated that <a href="/wiki/Romanian_language" title="Romanian language">Romanian</a> and <a href="/wiki/Moldovan_language" title="Moldovan language">Moldovan</a> were two different languages and, to emphasize the distinction, Moldovan was written using a special Cyrillic alphabet (the <a href="/wiki/Moldovan_Cyrillic_alphabet" title="Moldovan Cyrillic alphabet">Moldovan Cyrillic alphabet</a>) – unlike Romanian, in which <a href="/wiki/Romanian_Cyrillic_alphabet" title="Romanian Cyrillic alphabet">Romanian Cyrillic alphabet</a> was replaced by <a href="/wiki/Romanian_alphabet" title="Romanian alphabet">Romanian Latin alphabet</a> in 1860s.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Legacy">Legacy</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Union_of_Bessarabia_with_Romania&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Legacy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Unification_of_Moldova_and_Romania" title="Unification of Moldova and Romania">Unification of Moldova and Romania</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Stamp_of_Moldova_227.gif" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Stamp_of_Moldova_227.gif/220px-Stamp_of_Moldova_227.gif" decoding="async" width="220" height="135" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Stamp_of_Moldova_227.gif/330px-Stamp_of_Moldova_227.gif 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Stamp_of_Moldova_227.gif/440px-Stamp_of_Moldova_227.gif 2x" data-file-width="526" data-file-height="322" /></a><figcaption>1998 Moldovan stamp commemorating 80 years of the Union</figcaption></figure> <p>Moldova became independent from the Soviet Union in 1991. Since then, there has been <a href="/wiki/Unification_of_Moldova_and_Romania" title="Unification of Moldova and Romania">a movement to unite again the region with Romania</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-:1_12-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Furthermore, the union of Bessarabia with Romania is now commemorated on the <a href="/wiki/Day_of_the_Union_of_Bessarabia_with_Romania" title="Day of the Union of Bessarabia with Romania">Day of the Union of Bessarabia with Romania</a>, celebrated every 27 March. In Romania, this holiday is official since 2017.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It is not official in Moldova despite attempts at doing so,<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> but some Moldovan unionists celebrate it anyway.<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The same situation occurs in Transnistria.<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Union_of_Bessarabia_with_Romania&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bessarabian_question" title="Bessarabian question">Bessarabian question</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Great_Union" title="Great Union">Great Union</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Union_of_Transylvania_with_Romania" title="Union of Transylvania with Romania">Union of Transylvania with Romania</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Union_of_Bukovina_with_Romania" title="Union of Bukovina with Romania">Union of Bukovina with Romania</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Greater_Romania" title="Greater Romania">Greater Romania</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Unification_of_Moldova_and_Romania" title="Unification of Moldova and Romania">Unification of Moldova and Romania</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Moldova%E2%80%93Romania_relations" title="Moldova–Romania relations">Moldova–Romania relations</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Union_of_Bessarabia_with_Romania&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns 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a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite id="CITEREFFiges2011" class="citation book cs1">Figes, Orlando (2011). <i>The Crimean War: A History</i>. Macmillan. p. 18. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9781429997249" title="Special:BookSources/9781429997249"><bdi>9781429997249</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Crimean+War%3A+A+History&rft.pages=18&rft.pub=Macmillan&rft.date=2011&rft.isbn=9781429997249&rft.aulast=Figes&rft.aufirst=Orlando&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AUnion+of+Bessarabia+with+Romania" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.nationalmuseum.md/en/press_releases/journal_tyragetia/petitions_of_the_bessarabian_nobility_for_the_teaching_of_romanian_language_in_schools_of_the_province/">"Petitions of the Bessarabian nobility for the teaching of Romanian language in schools of the province :: Journal "Tyragetia" :: Publications :: National Museum of History of Moldova"</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Petitions+of+the+Bessarabian+nobility+for+the+teaching+of+Romanian+language+in+schools+of+the+province+%3A%3A+Journal+%22Tyragetia%22+%3A%3A+Publications+%3A%3A+National+Museum+of+History+of+Moldova&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nationalmuseum.md%2Fen%2Fpress_releases%2Fjournal_tyragetia%2Fpetitions_of_the_bessarabian_nobility_for_the_teaching_of_romanian_language_in_schools_of_the_province%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AUnion+of+Bessarabia+with+Romania" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-3">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">regarded as Romanian by some authors</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-4">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://depts.washington.edu/cartah/text_archive/clark/bc_8.shtml#bc_8">"The first Russian census after the annexation (1816) revealed a province almost solidly Roumanian – of a population of about half a million, 92.5% Moldavian and Ukrainian, 1.5% Lipovans (Russian heterodox), 4.5% Jews, 1.6% other races"</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-5">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://depts.washington.edu/cartah/text_archive/clark/bc_8.shtml#bc_8">text from a 1927 source:</a> "Today, the <a href="/w/index.php?title=Bessarabian_Bulgars&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Bessarabian Bulgars (page does not exist)">Bulgarians</a> form one of the most solid elements in Southern Bessarabia, numbering (with the Gagaoutzi, Turkish-speaking Christians also from the Dobrudja) nearly 150,000. Colonization brought in numerous Great Russian peasants, and the Russian bureaucracy imported Russian office-holders and professional men; according to the Roumanian estimate of 1920, the Great Russians were about 75,000 in number (2.9%), and the Lipovans and Cossacks 59,000 (2.2%); the Little Russians (Ukrainians) came to 254,000 (9.6%). That, plus about 10,000 Poles, brings the total number of Slavs to 545,000 in a population of 2,631,000, or about one-fifth"</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-6">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://depts.washington.edu/cartah/text_archive/clark/bc_10.shtml#bc_10">Naturally, this system resulted not in acquisition of Russian by the Moldavians, but in their almost complete illiteracy in any language</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-7">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFCazacu1912" class="citation web cs1">Cazacu (1912). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://depts.washington.edu/cartah/text_archive/clark/bc_24.shtml">"A Century of Serfdom"</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=A+Century+of+Serfdom&rft.date=1912&rft.au=Cazacu&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fdepts.washington.edu%2Fcartah%2Ftext_archive%2Fclark%2Fbc_24.shtml&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AUnion+of+Bessarabia+with+Romania" class="Z3988"></span> text: "The Russians are now holding their celebration of a century of material possession of Bessarabia. But her spirit they do not possess, nor shall they ever possess it. In the celebration of the Russians, the Moldavians have no share except that of deep and painful silence. The whole Roumanian people feels this pain, and does not lose hope that Bessarabia, and with her the Roumanian people, will have a chance to celebrate in her turn the day of salvation. It will come. History repeats itself so often, and the historical maxim remains: Babylon was, the Empire of Alexander of Macedon was, the Roman Empire was, the Byzantine Empire was, and the time will come to say of other empires also-they were. Not so long ago was 1855 with the Crimea, and not so long ago was Port Arthur and Tzushima, and-Great is the Lord God of Hosts!-it will be again, surely it will be again!"</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-8">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.prm.md/search.php?id=2332&lang=rom"><i>Sfatul Tarii</i> ... proclamate Moldavian Democratic Republic</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20071204070133/http://www.prm.md/search.php?id=2332&lang=rom">Archived</a> 2007-12-04 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-9">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFCharles_Upson_Clark1927" class="citation book cs1">Charles Upson Clark (1927). "24:The Decay of Russian Sentiment". <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://depts.washington.edu/cartah/text_archive/clark/bc_17.shtml#bc_17"><i>Bessarabia: Russia and Roumania on the Black Sea – View Across Dniester From Hotin Castle</i></a>. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=24%3AThe+Decay+of+Russian+Sentiment&rft.btitle=Bessarabia%3A+Russia+and+Roumania+on+the+Black+Sea+%E2%80%93+View+Across+Dniester+From+Hotin+Castle&rft.place=New+York&rft.pub=Dodd%2C+Mead+%26+Company&rft.date=1927&rft.au=Charles+Upson+Clark&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fdepts.washington.edu%2Fcartah%2Ftext_archive%2Fclark%2Fbc_17.shtml%23bc_17&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AUnion+of+Bessarabia+with+Romania" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-10"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-10">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Pelivan (<i>Chronology</i>)</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-11"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-11">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Cazacu (<i>Moldova</i>, pp. 240–245).</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-:1-12"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-:1_12-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-:1_12-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFKing2013" class="citation book cs1">King, Charles (2013). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=IVV9pZKrP2sC"><i>The Moldovans: Romania, Russia, and the Politics of Culture</i></a>. Hoover Press. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780817997939" title="Special:BookSources/9780817997939"><bdi>9780817997939</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Moldovans%3A+Romania%2C+Russia%2C+and+the+Politics+of+Culture&rft.pub=Hoover+Press&rft.date=2013&rft.isbn=9780817997939&rft.aulast=King&rft.aufirst=Charles&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DIVV9pZKrP2sC&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AUnion+of+Bessarabia+with+Romania" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-13"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-13">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Bernard Newman, "The new Europe", p. 245</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Meurs68-69-14"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Meurs68-69_14-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">van Meurs, Wim, <i>The Bessarabian question in communist historiography</i>, East European Monographs, 1994, pp. 68–69</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-15"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-15">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><i>Istoria Romanilor</i>, vol. VIII,, pp. 6–7, Editura Enciclopedica, Bucuresti, 2003</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-16"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-16">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Marcel Mitrasca, <i>Moldova: A Romanian Province under Russian Rule. Diplomatic History from the Archives of the Great Powers</i>, p. 67</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Wayne_S_Vucinich_1967_p._103-17"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Wayne_S_Vucinich_1967_p._103_17-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Wayne_S_Vucinich_1967_p._103_17-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Wayne_S_Vucinich_1967_p._103_17-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Wayne S Vucinich, "Bessarabia" in: <i><a href="/wiki/Collier%27s_Encyclopedia" title="Collier's Encyclopedia">Collier's Encyclopedia</a></i> (Crowell Collier and MacMillan Inc., 1967) vol. 4, p. 103</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-18"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-18">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFHalippa1924" class="citation book cs1">Halippa, Pantelimon (1924). <i>O cuvântare ținută în Parlamentul Țării. Discuția la Mesaj, Ședința din 28 noiembrie</i>. București. p. 71.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=O+cuv%C3%A2ntare+%C8%9Binut%C4%83+%C3%AEn+Parlamentul+%C8%9A%C4%83rii.+Discu%C8%9Bia+la+Mesaj%2C+%C8%98edin%C8%9Ba+din+28+noiembrie&rft.place=Bucure%C8%99ti&rft.pages=71&rft.date=1924&rft.aulast=Halippa&rft.aufirst=Pantelimon&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AUnion+of+Bessarabia+with+Romania" class="Z3988"></span><span class="cs1-maint citation-comment"><code class="cs1-code">{{<a href="/wiki/Template:Cite_book" title="Template:Cite book">cite book</a>}}</code>: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (<a href="/wiki/Category:CS1_maint:_location_missing_publisher" title="Category:CS1 maint: location missing publisher">link</a>)</span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-ultimatum-19"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-ultimatum_19-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.unibuc.ro/eBooks/istorie/istorie1918-1940/13-4.htm">Soviet Ultimata and Replies of the Romanian Government</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20071113170140/http://www.unibuc.ro/eBooks/istorie/istorie1918-1940/13-4.htm">Archived</a> November 13, 2007, at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a> in Ioan Scurtu, Theodora Stănescu-Stanciu, Georgiana Margareta Scurtu, <i>Istoria Românilor între anii 1918–1940</i> (in Romanian), <a href="/wiki/University_of_Bucharest" title="University of Bucharest">University of Bucharest</a>, 2002</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-20"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-20">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFNagy-Talavera1970" class="citation book cs1">Nagy-Talavera, Nicolas M. 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Brătianu</a> (<a href="/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_Romania" title="Prime Minister of Romania">Prime Minister</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alexandru_Averescu" title="Alexandru Averescu">Alexandru Averescu</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Iancu_Flondor" title="Iancu Flondor">Iancu Flondor</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pan_Halippa" title="Pan Halippa">Pan Halippa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Iuliu_Maniu" title="Iuliu Maniu">Iuliu Maniu</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Accomplishment</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Romania_in_World_War_I" title="Romania in World War I">Romania in<br />World War I</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Hypothesis_Z" title="Hypothesis Z">First Romanian war plan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Romanian_campaign_(1916)" title="Romanian campaign (1916)">1916 Romanian Campaign</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Transylvania" title="Battle of Transylvania">Battle of Transylvania</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Romanian_Debacle" title="The Romanian Debacle">The Romanian Debacle</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Bucharest" title="Battle of Bucharest">Battle of Bucharest</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Central_Powers_occupation_of_Romania&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Central Powers occupation of Romania (page does not exist)">Central Powers occupation of Romania</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Romanian_Campaign_(1917)" class="mw-redirect" title="Romanian Campaign (1917)">1917 Romanian Campaign</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_M%C4%83r%C4%83%C8%99ti" title="Battle of Mărăști">Battle of Mărăști</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_M%C4%83r%C4%83%C8%99e%C8%99ti" title="Battle of Mărășești">Battle of Mărășești</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Third_Battle_of_Oituz" title="Third Battle of Oituz">Third Battle of Oituz</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Romanian_military_intervention_in_Bessarabia" title="Romanian military intervention in Bessarabia">Romanian military intervention in Bessarabia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Second_Romanian_campaign_of_World_War_I" title="Second Romanian campaign of World War I">Second Romanian campaign</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hungarian%E2%80%93Romanian_War" title="Hungarian–Romanian War">Hungarian–Romanian War</a> <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Romanian_occupation_of_Hungary&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Romanian occupation of Hungary (page does not exist)">Romanian occupation of Hungary</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Romanian_occupation_of_Pokuttia" title="Romanian occupation of Pokuttia">Romanian occupation of Pokuttia</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Institutions and<br />documents</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Sfatul_%C8%9A%C4%83rii" title="Sfatul Țării">Sfatul Țării</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/General_Congress_of_Bukovina" title="General Congress of Bukovina">General Congress of Bukovina</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Great_Romanian_National_Council&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Great Romanian National Council (page does not exist)">Great Romanian National Council</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Great_National_Assembly_of_Alba_Iulia" title="Great National Assembly of Alba Iulia">Great National Assembly of Alba Iulia</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Declaration_of_Alba_Iulia&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Declaration of Alba Iulia (page does not exist)">Declaration of Alba Iulia</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Directing_Council_of_Transylvania,_Banat_and_the_Romanian_Lands_in_Hungary&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Directing Council of Transylvania, Banat and the Romanian Lands in Hungary (page does not exist)">Directing Council</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Treaty_of_Saint-Germain-en-Laye_(1919)" title="Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye (1919)">Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Treaty_of_Trianon" title="Treaty of Trianon">Treaty of Trianon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Treaty_of_Paris_(1920)" title="Treaty of Paris (1920)">Treaty of Paris</a> (unenforced)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Unifications</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Union with Bessarabia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Union_of_Bukovina_with_Romania" title="Union of Bukovina with Romania">Union with Bukovina</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Union_of_Transylvania_with_Romania" title="Union of Transylvania with Romania">Union with Transylvania</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Disestablishment</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Soviet_occupation_of_Bessarabia_and_Northern_Bukovina" title="Soviet occupation of Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina">Soviet occupation of Bessarabia, Northern Bukovina and the Hertsa region</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Second_Vienna_Award" title="Second Vienna Award">Second Vienna Award</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Treaty_of_Craiova" title="Treaty of Craiova">Treaty of Craiova</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Population_exchange_between_Bulgaria_and_Romania" title="Population exchange between Bulgaria and Romania">Population exchange between Bulgaria and Romania</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Operation_M%C3%BCnchen" title="Operation München">Recovery attempt of Bessarabia, Northern Bukovina and Hertsa</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Transnistria_Governorate" title="Transnistria Governorate">Transnistria Governorate</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paris_Peace_Treaties,_1947" title="Paris Peace Treaties, 1947">Paris Peace Treaties, 1947</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Moscow_Protocol_(1948)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Moscow Protocol (1948) (page does not exist)">Moscow Protocol of 1948</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Aftermath</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div 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Moldavia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Russo-Turkish_War_(1806%E2%80%931812)" title="Russo-Turkish War (1806–1812)">Russo-Turkish War of 1806–1812</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Treaty_of_Bucharest_(1812)" title="Treaty of Bucharest (1812)">Treaty of Bucharest of 1812</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bessarabian_question" title="Bessarabian question">Bessarabian question</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Unification_of_Moldavia_and_Wallachia" title="Unification of Moldavia and Wallachia">Unification of Moldavia and Wallachia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Southern_Bessarabia" title="Southern Bessarabia">Southern Bessarabia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Russian_Revolution" title="Russian Revolution">Russian Revolution</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Sfatul_%C8%9A%C4%83rii" title="Sfatul Țării">Sfatul Țării</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Moldavian_Democratic_Republic" title="Moldavian Democratic Republic">Moldavian Democratic Republic</a></li></ul></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Union of Bessarabia with Romania</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Great_Union" title="Great Union">Great Union</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Greater_Romania" title="Greater Romania">Greater Romania</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Soviet_occupation_of_Bessarabia_and_Northern_Bukovina" title="Soviet occupation of Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina">Soviet occupation of Bessarabia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Moldavian_Soviet_Socialist_Republic" title="Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic">Moldavian SSR</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/National_Patriotic_Front_(Moldova)" title="National Patriotic Front (Moldova)">National Patriotic Front</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dissolution_of_the_Soviet_Union" title="Dissolution of the Soviet Union">Dissolution of the Soviet Union</a></li></ul> </div></td><td class="noviewer navbox-image" rowspan="6" style="width:1px;padding:0 0 0 2px"><div><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Flag-map_of_Romania_with_Moldova.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0b/Flag-map_of_Romania_with_Moldova.svg/100px-Flag-map_of_Romania_with_Moldova.svg.png" decoding="async" width="100" height="69" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0b/Flag-map_of_Romania_with_Moldova.svg/150px-Flag-map_of_Romania_with_Moldova.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0b/Flag-map_of_Romania_with_Moldova.svg/200px-Flag-map_of_Romania_with_Moldova.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1569" data-file-height="1075" /></a></span></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Post-Soviet<br />developments</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Independence_of_Moldova" title="Independence of Moldova">Independence of Moldova</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Controversy_over_ethnic_and_linguistic_identity_in_Moldova" title="Controversy over ethnic and linguistic identity in Moldova">Controversy over ethnic and linguistic identity in Moldova</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Moldovenism" title="Moldovenism">Moldovenism</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1994_Moldovan_referendum" title="1994 Moldovan referendum">1994 Moldovan referendum</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Romania_in_NATO" title="Romania in NATO">Romanian accession to NATO</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2007_enlargement_of_the_European_Union" title="2007 enlargement of the European Union">Romanian accession to the European Union</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/April_2009_Moldovan_parliamentary_election_protests" title="April 2009 Moldovan parliamentary election protests">April 2009 Moldovan parliamentary election protests</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2015%E2%80%932016_protests_in_Moldova" title="2015–2016 protests in Moldova">2015–2016 protests in Moldova</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Day_of_the_Union_of_Bessarabia_with_Romania" title="Day of the Union of Bessarabia with Romania">Day of the Union of Bessarabia with Romania</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Supporters</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Moldova</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Parties</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Alliance_for_the_Union_of_Romanians" title="Alliance for the Union of Romanians">Alliance for the Union of Romanians</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Antimafia_Popular_Movement&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Antimafia Popular Movement (page does not exist)">Antimafia Popular Movement</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Christian-Democratic_People%27s_Party_(Moldova)" title="Christian-Democratic People's Party (Moldova)">Christian-Democratic People's Party</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Democracy_at_Home_Party" title="Democracy at Home Party">Democracy at Home Party</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Democratic_Party_of_Moldova" title="Liberal Democratic Party of Moldova">Liberal Democratic Party of Moldova</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mi%C8%99carea_Politic%C4%83_Unirea" title="Mișcarea Politică Unirea">Mișcarea Politică Unirea</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_(Moldova)" title="Liberal Party (Moldova)">Liberal Party</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Liberal_Party_(Moldova)" title="National Liberal Party (Moldova)">National Liberal Party</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Romanian_Popular_Party" title="Romanian Popular Party">Romanian Popular Party</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Save_Bessarabia_Union" title="Save Bessarabia Union">Save Bessarabia Union</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Unity_Party_(Moldova)" title="National Unity Party (Moldova)">National Unity Party</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Popular_Front_of_Moldova" title="Popular Front of Moldova">Popular Front of Moldova</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Unionist_Movement_of_the_Republic_of_Moldova" title="Unionist Movement of the Republic of Moldova">Unionist Movement of the Republic of Moldova</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Figures</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Vlad_Bile%C8%9Bchi" title="Vlad Bilețchi">Vlad Bilețchi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dorin_Chirtoac%C4%83" title="Dorin Chirtoacă">Dorin Chirtoacă</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ion_Costa%C8%99" title="Ion Costaș">Ion Costaș</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vlad_Filat" title="Vlad Filat">Vlad Filat</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pavel_Filip" title="Pavel Filip">Pavel Filip</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mihai_Ghimpu" title="Mihai Ghimpu">Mihai Ghimpu</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vladimir_Plahotniuc" title="Vladimir Plahotniuc">Vladimir Plahotniuc</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maia_Sandu" title="Maia Sandu">Maia Sandu</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mircea_Snegur" title="Mircea Snegur">Mircea Snegur</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ion_Sturza" title="Ion Sturza">Ion Sturza</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Octavian_%C8%9A%C3%AEcu" title="Octavian Țîcu">Octavian Țîcu</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Romania</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Parties</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Alliance_for_the_Union_of_Romanians" title="Alliance for the Union of Romanians">Alliance for the Union of Romanians</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Identity_Bloc_in_Europe" title="National Identity Bloc in Europe">National Identity Bloc in Europe</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Greater_Romania_Party" title="Greater Romania Party">Greater Romania Party</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Noua_Dreapt%C4%83" title="Noua Dreaptă">Noua Dreaptă</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/United_Romania_Party" title="United Romania Party">United Romania Party</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/People%27s_Movement_Party" title="People's Movement Party">People's Movement Party</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Romanian_Nationhood_Party" title="Romanian Nationhood Party">Romanian Nationhood Party</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/S.O.S._Romania" title="S.O.S. Romania">S.O.S. Romania</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Figures</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Dan_Barna" title="Dan Barna">Dan Barna</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Traian_B%C4%83sescu" title="Traian Băsescu">Traian Băsescu</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dacian_Ciolo%C8%99" title="Dacian Cioloș">Dacian Cioloș</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Klaus_Iohannis" title="Klaus Iohannis">Klaus Iohannis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ludovic_Orban" title="Ludovic Orban">Ludovic Orban</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Victor_Ponta" title="Victor Ponta">Victor Ponta</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Simion" title="George Simion">George Simion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eugen_Tomac" title="Eugen Tomac">Eugen Tomac</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Opponents</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th id="Moldova" scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Moldova</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Parties</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Collective_Action_Party_%E2%80%93_Civic_Congress" class="mw-redirect" title="Collective Action Party – Civic Congress">Collective Action Party – Civic Congress</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Electoral_Bloc_of_Communists_and_Socialists" class="mw-redirect" title="Electoral Bloc of Communists and Socialists">Electoral Bloc of Communists and Socialists</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Party_of_Communists_of_the_Republic_of_Moldova" title="Party of Communists of the Republic of Moldova">Party of Communists of the Republic of Moldova</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Party_of_Socialists_of_the_Republic_of_Moldova" title="Party of Socialists of the Republic of Moldova">Party of Socialists of the Republic of Moldova</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Greater_Moldova_Party" title="Greater Moldova Party">Greater Moldova Party</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Party_of_Regions_of_Moldova" title="Party of Regions of Moldova">Party of Regions of Moldova</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Renato_Usat%C3%AEi_Electoral_Bloc&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Renato Usatîi Electoral Bloc (page does not exist)">Renato Usatîi Electoral Bloc</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Our_Party_(Moldova)" title="Our Party (Moldova)">Our Party</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Motherland_Party_(Moldova)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Motherland Party (Moldova) (page does not exist)">Motherland Party</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/%C8%98or_Party" title="Șor Party">Șor Party</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Figures</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Vlad_Batr%C3%AEncea" title="Vlad Batrîncea">Vlad Batrîncea</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Igor_Dodon" title="Igor Dodon">Igor Dodon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vadim_Krasnoselsky" title="Vadim Krasnoselsky">Vadim Krasnoselsky</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Andrei_Sangheli" title="Andrei Sangheli">Andrei Sangheli</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ilan_%C8%98or" class="mw-redirect" title="Ilan Șor">Ilan Șor</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vasile_Stati" title="Vasile Stati">Vasile Stati</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Irina_Vlah" title="Irina Vlah">Irina Vlah</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vladimir_Voronin" title="Vladimir Voronin">Vladimir Voronin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Renato_Usat%C3%AEi" title="Renato Usatîi">Renato Usatîi</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Unionist initiatives</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Action_2012" title="Action 2012">Action 2012</a></li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Bessarabia,_Romanian_land" title="Bessarabia, Romanian land">Bessarabia, Romanian land</a>"</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Centenary_of_the_Great_Union&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Centenary of the Great Union (page does not exist)">Centenary of the Great Union</a> <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Alliance_for_the_Centenary&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Alliance for the Centenary (page does not exist)">Alliance for the Centenary</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Centenary_March" title="Centenary March">Centenary March</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2018_unification_declarations_in_Moldova_and_Romania" title="2018 unification declarations in Moldova and Romania">2018 unification declarations</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Youth_of_Moldova&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Youth of Moldova (page does not exist)">Youth of Moldova</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">See also</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Moldova%E2%80%93European_Union_relations" title="Moldova–European Union relations">Moldova–European Union relations</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Moldova%E2%80%93NATO_relations" title="Moldova–NATO relations">Moldova–NATO relations</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Moldova%E2%80%93Romania_relations" title="Moldova–Romania relations">Moldova–Romania relations</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Romanian_nationality_law" title="Romanian nationality law">Romanian nationality law</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Transnistria_conflict" title="Transnistria conflict">Transnistria conflict</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236075235"></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox" aria-labelledby="Moldavian_Democratic_Republic" style="padding:3px"><table class="nowraplinks 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Cabinet">Pantelimon Erhan Cabinet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Daniel_Ciugureanu_Cabinet" title="Daniel Ciugureanu Cabinet">Daniel Ciugureanu Cabinet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Petru_Cazacu_Cabinet" class="mw-redirect" title="Petru Cazacu Cabinet">Petru Cazacu Cabinet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rumcherod" title="Rumcherod">Rumcherod</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Romanian_military_intervention_in_Bessarabia" title="Romanian military intervention in Bessarabia">Romanian military intervention</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Union of Bessarabia with Romania</a></li></ul> </div></td><td class="noviewer navbox-image" rowspan="4" style="width:1px;padding:0 0 0 2px"><div><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Flag_of_the_Moldavian_Democratic_Republic.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/Flag_of_the_Moldavian_Democratic_Republic.svg/80px-Flag_of_the_Moldavian_Democratic_Republic.svg.png" decoding="async" width="80" height="60" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/Flag_of_the_Moldavian_Democratic_Republic.svg/120px-Flag_of_the_Moldavian_Democratic_Republic.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/Flag_of_the_Moldavian_Democratic_Republic.svg/160px-Flag_of_the_Moldavian_Democratic_Republic.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="450" /></a></span></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:center;">Directors</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Nicolae_Bosie-Codreanu" title="Nicolae Bosie-Codreanu">Bosie-Codreanu</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Emanoil_Catelli" title="Emanoil Catelli">Catelli</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Petru_Cazacu" title="Petru Cazacu">Cazacu</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/%C8%98tefan_Ciobanu" title="Ștefan Ciobanu">Ciobanu</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Daniel_Ciugureanu" title="Daniel Ciugureanu">Ciugureanu</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Teodor_Cojocaru" title="Teodor Cojocaru">Cojocaru</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vladimir_Cristi" title="Vladimir Cristi">Cristi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pantelimon_Erhan" title="Pantelimon Erhan">Erhan</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Veniamin_I._Grinfeld&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Veniamin I. Grinfeld (page does not exist)">Grinfeld</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Teofil_Ioncu" title="Teofil Ioncu">Ioncu</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gherman_P%C3%A2ntea" title="Gherman Pântea">Pântea</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ion_Pelivan" title="Ion Pelivan">Pelivan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mihail_Savenco" title="Mihail Savenco">Savenco</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:center;"><a href="/wiki/Sfatul_%C8%9A%C4%83rii" title="Sfatul Țării">Sfatul Țării</a> <br />members</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Nicolae_Alexandri" title="Nicolae Alexandri">Alexandri</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Elena_Alistar" title="Elena Alistar">Alistar</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Philipp_Almendinger&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Philipp Almendinger (page does not exist)">Almendinger</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/%C8%98tefan_Balmez" title="Ștefan Balmez">Balmez</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alexandru_Baltag%C4%83" title="Alexandru Baltagă">Baltagă</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Teodor_B%C3%A2rc%C4%83" title="Teodor Bârcă">Teodor Bârcă</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Teodosie_B%C3%A2rc%C4%83" title="Teodosie Bârcă">Teodosie Bârcă</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vasile_B%C3%A2rc%C4%83" title="Vasile Bârcă">V. Bârcă</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pyotr_Z._Bazhbeuk-Melikov" title="Pyotr Z. Bazhbeuk-Melikov">Bazhbeuk-Melikov</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Constantin_Bivol" title="Constantin Bivol">Bivol</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Zaharia_Boc%C8%99an&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Zaharia Bocșan (page does not exist)">Bocșan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vladimir_Bodescu" title="Vladimir Bodescu">Bodescu</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vladimir_Bogos" title="Vladimir Bogos">Bogos</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nicolae_Bosie-Codreanu" title="Nicolae Bosie-Codreanu">Bosie-Codreanu</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/%C8%98tefan_Botnarciuc" title="Ștefan Botnarciuc">Botnarciuc</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Gheorghe_Brinici&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Gheorghe Brinici (page does not exist)">Brinici</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gavril_Buciu%C8%99can" title="Gavril Buciușcan">Buciușcan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ignatie_Budi%C8%99teanu" class="mw-redirect" title="Ignatie Budișteanu">Budișteanu</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Nikita_Budnicenko&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Nikita Budnicenko (page does not exist)">Budnicenko</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ilarion_Buiuc" title="Ilarion Buiuc">Buiuc</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Teodosie_Bujni%C8%9B%C4%83&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Teodosie Bujniță (page does not exist)">Bujniță</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gheorghe_Buruian%C4%83" title="Gheorghe Buruiană">Buruiană</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ion_Buzdugan" title="Ion Buzdugan">Buzdugan</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Gheorghi_Cara&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Gheorghi Cara (page does not exist)">Cara</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anton_Caraiman" title="Anton Caraiman">Caraiman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dimitrie_C%C4%83r%C4%83u%C8%99" title="Dimitrie Cărăuș">Cărăuș</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Grigore_Cazacliu" title="Grigore Cazacliu">G. Cazacliu</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ion_Cazacliu" title="Ion Cazacliu">I. Cazacliu</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vladimir_Cazacliu" title="Vladimir Cazacliu">V. Cazacliu</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ion_Ceornega&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Ion Ceornega (page does not exist)">Ceornega</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nicolae_Cern%C4%83u%C8%9Beanu" title="Nicolae Cernăuțeanu">Cernăuțeanu</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nicolae_Cernov" title="Nicolae Cernov">Cernov</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nicolae_Checerul_Cu%C8%99" title="Nicolae Checerul Cuș">Checerul Cuș</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Afanasie_Chiriac" title="Afanasie Chiriac">Chiriac</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vladimir_Chiorescu" title="Vladimir Chiorescu">Chiorescu</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Prokop_Chumachenko&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Prokop Chumachenko (page does not exist)">Chumachenko</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vasile_Cijevschi" title="Vasile Cijevschi">Cijevschi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vasile_Cior%C4%83scu" title="Vasile Ciorăscu">Ciorăscu</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nicolae_Ciornei" title="Nicolae Ciornei">Ciornei</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Daniel_Ciugureanu" title="Daniel Ciugureanu">Ciugureanu</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pavel_Coc%C3%A2rl%C4%83" title="Pavel Cocârlă">Cocârlă</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ion_Codreanu_(politician)" title="Ion Codreanu (politician)">Codreanu</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Teodor_Corobceanu&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Teodor Corobceanu (page does not exist)">Corobceanu</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ion_Costin" title="Ion Costin">Costin</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Teofil_Cotoros&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Teofil Cotoros (page does not exist)">Cotoros</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Vasile_Covali&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Vasile Covali (page does not exist)">Covali</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ion_Creang%C4%83_(politician)" title="Ion Creangă (politician)">Creangă</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anton_Crihan" title="Anton Crihan">Crihan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vladimir_Cristi" title="Vladimir Cristi">Cristi</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Petre_Culcev&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Petre Culcev (page does not exist)">Culcev</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Alexei_Culeva&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Alexei Culeva (page does not exist)">Culeva</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Vasile_Curdinovschi&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Vasile Curdinovschi (page does not exist)">Curdinovschi</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dragomir_Diaconovici&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Dragomir Diaconovici (page does not exist)">Diaconovici</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Serghei_Donico-Iord%C4%83chescu" title="Serghei Donico-Iordăchescu">Donico-Iordăchescu</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dimitrie_Dragomir" title="Dimitrie Dragomir">Dragomir</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dumitru_Dron" title="Dumitru Dron">Dron</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Felix_Dudchievicz" title="Felix Dudchievicz">Dudchievicz</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ion_Dumitra%C8%99cu&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Ion Dumitrașcu (page does not exist)">Dumitrașcu</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Boris_Epure" title="Boris Epure">Epure</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pantelimon_Erhan" title="Pantelimon Erhan">Erhan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vasile_Gafencu" title="Vasile Gafencu">Gafencu</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Andrei_G%C4%83in%C4%83" title="Andrei Găină">Găină</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Simion_Gale%C8%9Bchi" class="mw-redirect" title="Simion Galețchi">Galețchi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vasile_Ghenzul" title="Vasile Ghenzul">Ghenzul</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Isac_Gherman&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Isac Gherman (page does not exist)">Gherman</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Alexandr_Grekulov&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Alexandr Grekulov (page does not exist)">Grekulov</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nadejda_Grinfeld" title="Nadejda Grinfeld">Grinfeld</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alexandru_Groap%C4%83" title="Alexandru Groapă">Groapă</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nicolae_Grosu" title="Nicolae Grosu">Grosu</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pan_Halippa" title="Pan Halippa">Halippa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ion_Harbuz" title="Ion Harbuz">Harbuz</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Vasile_Harea&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Vasile Harea (page does not exist)">Harea</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ioan_Her%C8%9Ba&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Ioan Herța (page does not exist)">I. Herța</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Teodor_Her%C8%9Ba" title="Teodor Herța">T. 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