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Bessarabian
Variant of Bessarabia
region in SE Europe, between the Dnestr & Prut rivers: historically associated with Moldavia since the 14th cent.; ceded by Romania to the U.S.S.R. in 1940 & incorporated into the Moldavian S.S.R. (now Moldova)
Related Forms:
- Bessarabian adjective, noun
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