Varniţa (Varniţa)
Varnița (Ва́рница, Варниця) is a village in the Anenii Noi District, Moldova, located near Bender (Tighina). It is also considered a suburb of Bender. After the 1992 War of Transnistria, Varnița remained controlled by the government of the Republic of Moldova, while the city of Bender is controlled by the authorities of Transnistria.
The first mention of the village comes from the company of Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent in a firman directed to Hasan, a bey of Akkerman and the Sandžak. It mentions that according to information provided by Moldovan voivode Alexander Lăpuşneanu, bandits who had committed murders and robberies had found shelter in Varniţa or Varnigea near Bender. There is a hypothesis according to which the town was established immediately after the creation of Bender in 1538.
The first mention of the village comes from the company of Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent in a firman directed to Hasan, a bey of Akkerman and the Sandžak. It mentions that according to information provided by Moldovan voivode Alexander Lăpuşneanu, bandits who had committed murders and robberies had found shelter in Varniţa or Varnigea near Bender. There is a hypothesis according to which the town was established immediately after the creation of Bender in 1538.
Map - Varniţa (Varniţa)
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Country - Moldova
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Most of Moldovan territory was a part of the Principality of Moldavia from the 14th century until 1812, when it was ceded to the Russian Empire by the Ottoman Empire (to which Moldavia was a vassal state) and became known as Bessarabia. In 1856, southern Bessarabia was returned to Moldavia, which three years later united with Wallachia to form Romania, but Russian rule was restored over the whole of the region in 1878. During the 1917 Russian Revolution, Bessarabia briefly became an autonomous state within the Russian Republic. In February 1918, it declared independence and then integrated into Romania later that year following a vote of its assembly. The decision was disputed by Soviet Russia, which in 1924 established, within the Ukrainian SSR, a so-called Moldavian autonomous republic on partially Moldovan-inhabited territories to the east of Bessarabia.
Currency / Language
ISO | Currency | Symbol | Significant figures |
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MDL | Moldovan leu | L | 2 |
ISO | Language |
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RO | Romanian language |
RU | Russian language |
TR | Turkish language |