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(historical) A former principality in Eastern Europe, which occupied a region now made up of the country of Moldova and northeastern Romania.
Moldavia, Western Moldavia (a region in eastern Romania adjacent to the country of Moldova, once part of the principality of Moldova). Coordinate term: Wallachia examples
Nonstandard form of Moldova. quotations examples
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, page 57