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Moldavia
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moldávia Moldávia Moldavía Moldàvia
English
thumb|Map of Romania with the region of Moldavia highlighted in yellow
Pronunciation
en /mɒlˈdeɪvi.ə/ UK
en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Moldavia.wav Southern England
en eɪviə 4
Proper noun
en Q10957559en historical en former principality r/Eastern Europe which occupied a region now made up of the country of Moldova and northeastern Romania.
en Moldova Q209754 Moldavia Western Moldavia.
en Wallachia
en Moldova Q217.
en 1992 w:Richard Nixon The Former Evil Empire Seize the Moment https://archive.org/details/seizemomentameri00nixo/ w:Simon & Schuster 0-671-74343-0 91-37743 440652941 57 https://archive.org/details/seizemomentameri00nixo/page/57/ 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.
Derived terms
en Romanian Moldavia Western Moldavia
Translations
region
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 摩爾達維亞 Mó'ěrdáwéiyà
Czech: cs Moldavsko n
Danish: da Moldavien
Finnish: fi Moldavia
German: de Moldawien n
Icelandic: is Moldavía f
Japanese: ja モルダビア
Latvian: lv Moldāvija f
Norman: nrf Moldova
Norwegian:
Bokmål: nb Moldavia
Romanian: ro Moldova f, ro Principatul Moldovei n, ro Țara Moldovei f
Russian: ru Молда́вия f, ru Молдо́ва f
Ukrainian: uk Молда́вія f, uk Молдо́ва f
Moldova
See also
en Moldova
Further reading
en terms suffixed with -ia (place) exonyms
Albanian
Proper noun
sq proper noun form
sq Moldavi def nom s
Asturian
ast:
Proper noun
ast Moldova Q217
Basque
eu:
Pronunciation
+<audio:LL-Q8752 (eus)-Xabier Cañas-Moldavia.wav>
Proper noun
in
eu Moldova Q217
Declension
in.pr
Derived terms
eu moldaviar<t:Moldovan>
See also
Further reading
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Finnish
Etymology
From fi de Moldawien.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
fi historical fi Moldavia Q10957559
fi dated fi Moldova: fi Moldova Q217
Declension
sg Moldavi a
Derived terms
fi moldavialainen
Franco-Provençal
frp:
Proper noun
f
frp Moldova Q217
Italian
it:
Pronunciation
Moldàvia
Proper noun
f
it Moldova Q217
it Moldovia
Derived terms
it moldavo
See also
Latin
la:
Proper noun
Moldavia<1>
la New Latin la Moldova Q217
Declension
Moldavia<1>
See also
Norwegian Bokmål
thumb|A view across the Central Moldavian Plateau in eastern Romania.
thumb|The Principality of Moldavia in 1483.
Alternative forms
nb Moldova current standard form for the country; also used for the region and historical principality
Pronunciation
nb /¹mɔlˈdɑː.ʋi.a/ [mɔlˈdɑ̀ː.ʋɪ.ǎ]
nb ɑːʋia 4
nb Mol da vi a
Proper noun
nb proper noun
nb dated Moldova; the country in Eastern Europe between Romania and Ukraine.
nb Hun besøkte Moldavia kort tid etter at landet ble selvstendig. She visited Moldova shortly after the country became independent.
nb 2004 NOU 2004: 20: Ny utlendingslov Regjeringen.no https://www.regjeringen.no/no/dokumenter/nou-2004-20/id387326/?ch=5 Det reviderte charteret er foreløpig, dvs. er 13. 09.02, ratifisert av Bulgaria, Kypros, Estland, Finland, Frankrike, Irland, Litauen, Moldavia, Norge, Portugal, Romania, Slovenia og Sverige. As of 13 September 2002, the revised charter had been ratified by Bulgaria, Cyprus, Estonia, Finland, France, Ireland, Lithuania, Moldova, Norway, Portugal, Romania, Slovenia and Sweden. https://web.archive.org/web/20260311185402/https://www.regjeringen.no/no/dokumenter/nou-2004-20/id387326/?ch=5 11 March 2026
nb historical Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic; a constituent republic of the Soviet Union from 1940 to 1991, corresponding largely to present-day Moldova.
nb Moldavia var en av republikkene i Sovjetunionen. Moldavia was one of the republics of the Soviet Union.
nb 22 April 2026 Åsmund Egge Leonid Brezjnev Store norske leksikon https://snl.no/Leonid_Brezjnev Etter krigen ledet han partikomiteer i den ukrainske sovjetrepublikken inntil han i 1950 ble førstesekretær for partiet i sovjetrepublikken Moldavia. After the war, he headed party committees in the Ukrainian Soviet republic until becoming first secretary of the party in the Soviet republic of Moldavia in 1950. https://web.archive.org/web/20260929030438/https://snl.no/Leonid_Brezjnev 29 September 2026
Moldavia; nb region c/Romania, in the eastern and northeastern part of the country, forming the western core of the former principality.
nb Roman ligger i det historiske landskapet Moldavia. Roman lies in the historical region of Moldavia.
nb 24 June 2026 Miron Costin Store norske leksikon https://snl.no/Miron_Costin Miron Costin var en krønikeskriver fra Roman, en by i dagens Romania, i det historiske landskapet Moldavia. Miron Costin was a chronicler from Roman, a town in present-day Romania, in the historical region of Moldavia. https://web.archive.org/web/20250905035551/https://snl.no/Miron_Costin 5 September 2025
Moldavia; a historical principality in Eastern Europe, whose former territory is now divided chiefly between Romania, Moldova and Ukraine.
nb Moldavia ble forent med Valakia i 1859. Moldavia was united with Wallachia in 1859.
nb 1 July 2026 Svein Mønnesland Balkans historie Store norske leksikon https://snl.no/Balkans_historie Moldavia og Valakia ble uavhengige fyrstedømmer på midten av 1300-tallet. Moldavia and Wallachia became independent principalities in the mid-14th century. https://web.archive.org/web/20260214092536/https://snl.no/Balkans_historie 14 February 2026
Usage notes
For the modern country, nb Moldavia was replaced as the standardized Norwegian name by nb Moldova in 1995 and is now dated.
nb Moldavia was the traditional Norwegian name of the Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic.
For the historical region and principality, both nb Moldavia and nb Moldova occur. Språkrådet lists nb Moldova as the normalized historical name, while nb Moldavia remains well established in historical writing.
Related terms
nb moldavier Moldavian person dated or historical
nb moldavisk Moldavian dated or historical
References
Rettskrivningsvedtak 1962–2003 Språkrådet https://sprakradet.no/nyord-og-rettskrivingsendringer/normering-av-norsk/rettskrivingsvedtak/rettskrivningsvedtak-1962-2003/ 3 August 2026 https://web.archive.org/web/20261002012832/https://sprakradet.no/nyord-og-rettskrivingsendringer/normering-av-norsk/rettskrivingsvedtak/rettskrivningsvedtak-1962-2003/ 2 October 2026
Historiske navn Språkrådet https://sprakradet.no/stedsnavn-og-navn-pa-statsorgan/navnelister-norsk-skrivemate/historiske-navn/ 3 August 2026 https://web.archive.org/web/20261004204240/https://sprakradet.no/stedsnavn-og-navn-pa-statsorgan/navnelister-norsk-skrivemate/historiske-navn/ 4 October 2026
1 September 2025 Moldavia Nasjonalbibliotekets vokabulartjeneste https://www.nb.no/nbvok/neo/nb/page/?uri=https%3A%2F%2Fid.nb.no%2Fvocabulary%2Fneo%2F10467 3 August 2026
22 February 2025 Moldova – landskap Store norske leksikon https://snl.no/Moldova_-_landskap 3 August 2026 https://web.archive.org/web/20260905131628/https://snl.no/Moldova_-_landskap 5 September 2026
Spanish
es:
Alternative forms
es Moldova original, proscribed
Pronunciation
+<audio:LL-Q1321 (spa)-Rodelar-Moldavia.wav>
Proper noun
f
es Moldova Q217
Related terms
es moldavo
See also
Further reading
Moldavia | Diccionario panhispánico de dudas | RAE - ASALE