History

Moldova is a small country in South-Eastern Europe, bordering Ukraine at the east and Romania the west. It enjoys a rich past  and history, full of struggle and dramatic events.

Starting with the 14th century it became an integral part of the Moldova voivodship, located between the Eastern Carpathians and the Nistru river, bordered by Hotin in the north, and by the  Lower Danube and the Black Sea in the South.

Following the Bucharest Peace in 1812, a part of this territory - the area between the Prut and Nistru - returned to the Tzarist Russia, which assigned to it the name Bessarabia, using an older name attributed to its southern part, intending to enroot the idea that it constituted a geographical entity separate from the principate of Moldova.

In January 1918 there was proclaimed the independence of the Democratic Republic of Moldova. And on the 27th of March 1918 there was decided the Unification with Romania. The next annexation process took place in 1940, following the signing og the Molotov – Ribbentrop pact. Bessarabia was annexed to the USSR and there was proclaimed the Moldovan SSR, which comprised only 9 Bessarabian counties and 6 districts from the left bank of the Nistru River. The present territory of the Republic of Moldova is smaller than the one transferred under Russian authority in 1812, because three counties Hotin - from the North, Acherman and Southern Ismail were ceded by the Soviet authorities to Ukraine in 1940.

Due to the restructuring process initiated in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe, on the 23rd of June 1990 Moldova proclaimed its sovereignty, and on the 27th of August 1991 – the State Independence. On the 2nd of March 1992 the Republic of Moldova became a member of the United Nations Organization.