Moldavian

According to another battle description, the defending Moldavian forces repelled several Ottoman attacks with steady fire from hand-guns.

According to Philip G. Roeder, Moldova is an example of a Soviet era "segment-state" ( Moldavian SSR ), where the "nation-state project of the segment-state trumped the nation-state project of prior statehood.

After the War of Transnistria in early 90's Transnistrian government denied access of operation for many Moldavian based companies on its territory including telecommunications companies.

Also, the disastrous and unsuccessful invasion of Bukovina led by his oldest brother King John I Albert dispelled the plans for placing Sigismund on the Moldavian throne.

In 1712, Hotin was taken over by the Ottomans, and became part of a defensive system that Moldavian princes were required to maintain, as well as an area for Islamic colonization (the Laz community).

In 1844, Moldavian Prince Mihail Sturdza proposed a law on the freeing of slaves owned by the church and state.

In various periods, various other territories were politically connected with the Moldavian principality.

Prince Vasile Lupu had secured the Moldavian throne in 1634 after a series of complicated intrigues, and managed to hold it for twenty years.

Some of them came to alleviate the postwar shortage of qualified labor in the Moldavian SSR, which was created by the rapid industrialization, but also by the loss of human life during the war, deportations, and famine.

The Moldavian unrest was quickly suppressed, but in Wallachia the revolutionaries took power and governed during the summer (see 1848 Wallachian revolution ).

These maces were also used by the Moldavian king Stephen the Great in some of his wars (see Bulawa ).

They are surrounded by the Moldavian and Transylvanian plateaus and Carpathian Basin and Wallachian plains.

This appears to be a fairly accurate guess; the official Russian figures, which the Moldavians considered as inaccurate and padded, set the Moldavian proportion considerably lower, as about one-half.

Thus, Romanian-language speakers in Bessarabia clung to a "Moldavian" identity.

Young Cuza played a prominent enough part so as to establish his liberal credentials during the Moldavian episode and to be shipped to Vienna as a prisoner, where he made his escape with British support.