Abstract
The Republic of Moldova of today was part of the Ottoman Empire up to 1812 when Russia seized Bessarabia, as it was called at that time. During the nineteenth century the territory was made up of the Gubernia of Bessarabia. During World War I Bessarabia declared its independence in 1918. It was reunited with the Kingdom of Romania. In 1940, the Soviet army invaded Bessarabia. The territory was organized as the Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic. In 1991 Moldova declared its independence from the Soviet Union. The same year the country became a member of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) and in 1992 Moldova joined the United Nations (Neukirch, 1996; Hofbauer and Roman, 1997).
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Rothenbacher, F. (2013). Moldova. In: The Central and East European Population since 1850. The Societies of Europe. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137273901_18
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