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Dniester (nē`stər), Ukr. Dnister, Moldovan Nistru, Rus. Dnestr, Rom. Nistrul, Turk. Turla, river, c.850 mi (1,370 km) long, forming part of the border between Ukraine and Moldova. It rises in the Carpathian Mts., flows generally SE through SW Ukraine past Halych, Khotin, and Mohyliv-Podilskyy, through Moldova past Tighina and Tiraspol, and empties through an estuary into the Black Sea SW of Odessa. It is navigable below Halych; its tributaries include the Sereth and the Stryy. The Dniester formed the Romanian-Soviet border from 1918 to 1940, when the USSR regained Bessarabia. Dniester a river in E Europe, rising in Ukraine, in the Carpathian Mountains and flowing generally southeast to the Black Sea. Length: 1411 km (877 miles) How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| Brussels links the ratification of this treaty to Russia completing the withdrawal of its troops from Georgia and the Trans Dniester region. To this day, for example, the fighting that broke out in 1992 in Moldova, when Russian-speaking separatists succeeded in detaching a strip of the country along the left bank of the river Dniester and turned it into an independent republic, is presented as a textbook study of how civil wars can start when the dominant nation in a new state fails to take into consideration the anxieties of the minority. Also, Moldovans from the left bank of the Dniester river were "prohibited from using the Latin alphabet in their schooling". |
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