Moldavia
Americannoun
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a region in northeastern Romania: formerly a principality that united with Wallachia to form Romania. Jassy.
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former name of Moldova.
noun
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another name for Moldova
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a former principality of E Europe, consisting of the basins of the Rivers Prut and Dniester: the E part (Bessarabia) became Moldova; the W part remains a province of Romania
Example Sentences
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Quantum Systems, one of Germany’s largest and most successful defense startups, has delivered hundreds of drones to Moldavia and Romania and it has thousands flying in Ukraine everyday, said Strobel.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 27, 2025
He left Mariupol on Tuesday and after a four-day trip through Ukraine he crossed to Romania through Moldavia, along with 10 other Greek nationals.
From Reuters • Mar. 20, 2022
The book hooked fans by suggesting largely apocryphal links between Count Dracula and Vlad Dracula, the 15th-century ruler of Wallachia, which together with Transylvania to the north and Moldavia to the northeast comprises modern-day Romania.
From Slate • Aug. 29, 2014
And the answer: William Wilkinson's "An Account of the Principalities of Wallachia and Moldavia" inspired this author's most famous novel.
From BBC • Feb. 17, 2011
Central Europeans became especially hooked on it; by the nineteenth century, maize was the daily bread of Serbia, Rumania, and Moldavia.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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