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Moldavia en · PROPN

Pronunciation

• (Southern-England) audio
• /mɒlˈdeɪvi.ə/ (UK)

Meanings

1. (historical) A former principality in Eastern Europe, which occupied a region now made up of the country of Moldova and northeastern Romania.
2. Moldavia, Western Moldavia (a region in eastern Romania adjacent to the country of Moldova, once part of the principality of Moldova).
3. (alt-of, nonstandard) Nonstandard form of Moldova.
   alt of Moldova
   • In Moldavia, a young Leonid Brezhnev orchestrated the postwar subjugation of the newly annexed Romanian territory, ordering thousands of executions and shipping off 30,000 people to Siberian labor camps. 1992, Richard Nixon, “The Former Evil Empire”, in Seize the Moment, Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 57:

Coordinates

Wallachia

Deriveds

Romanian Moldavia · Western Moldavia

Relateds

Moldova

Translations (17)

da Moldavien (region) · ro Moldova (region) · ru Молда́вия (region) · lv Moldāvija (region) · fi Moldavia (region) · de Moldawien (region) · ro Principatul Moldovei (region) · is Moldavía (region) · nb Moldavia (region) · ja モルダビア (region) · cmn 摩爾達維亞 /摩尔达维亚 (region) · uk Молдо́ва (region) · ru Молдо́ва (region) · nrf Moldova (region) · ro Țara Moldovei (region) · uk Молда́вія (region) · cs Moldavsko (region)