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To: petekoby who wrote (39639)	9/7/2008 2:56:13 PM
From: Haim R. Branisteanu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 220010

Do we want a dosens city states that will be the vasals of the big powers? ... and BTW the Dniester marked the old Moldovian border, and later after unification of Transilvania Walachia and Moldova formed today Romania. As to Bucovina it was part of Romania as was Basarabia (which is today called Moldova)and as Autro Hungary conquered Transilvania they took Bukovina along. It is true that Bucovina and the Satu Mare region in Norht East Romania / West UKraine was many times a no-man land changing hands too often. Pridnestrovie is home to 555,000 people made up of 35 different nationalities. It is a multi-ethnic, society where languages, cultures and religions trying to coexist. For more than a thousand years Pridnestrovie was a border country where civilizations came together. As the frontier of the West, and at times part of Poland, Lithuania, and imperial Russia, Pridnestrovie was the outpost in the fault line war between Islam and Christianity. Today, slavs (mainly ethnic Russians and Ukrainians) make up almost 58% of the population. Ethnic Moldavians represent 33%. The rest are a mix of Poles, Bulgarians, Gagausians, Germans, and others. Pridnestrovskaia Moldavskaia Respublica has a population of 555,000 people who live on a country of 4,163 km², nearly twice the size of Luxembourg. In terms of population, Pridnestrovie is almost double the size of Iceland (296,000) or Belize (283,000).