Glossary: Transnistria (Transdnestria in English)
DEFINITION:
From 1941 to 1944, a Romanian judet (province) encompassing the land between the Nistru and Pivdennyy Buh rivers in the German-occupied Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic. Currently, the region between the Nistru River and Moldova’s eastern border. In September 1990, Slavs in Transnistria proclaimed it the ""Dnestr Moldavian Republic"" (q.v.).