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Prut
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Prut or Pruth , river, c.530 mi (850 km) long, rising in the Carpathian Mts., W Ukraine...River at Reni. It forms the border between Romania and Moldova. The Prut is navigable to Leovo. By the Peace of the Pruth (1711) Peter I of...
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Moldova
Encyclopedia entry from: Junior Worldmark Encyclopedia of Physical Geography
...border with Romania lies along the Prut River in the west; on the east, the Dniester...nca-Costesti, through which the Prut River flows, lies on the Moldovan-Romanian...tributary of the Danube River. The Prut River forms Moldova's entire border with...
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Romania
Encyclopedia entry from: Worldmark Encyclopedia of the Nations
...the eastern and southern fringes of the Carpathian arc are the low plateaus and plains of Walachia, extending to the Prut River (Moldovan border) in the east and to the Danube (Bulgarian border) in the south. On the inside of the Carpathian...
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Moldovans
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Cultures
...landlocked Moldova run from the right bank of the Dniester River (its boundary with Ukraine) south to the Dniester estuary...jagged course, east to the Danube Delta and on to the Prut River (its boundary with Romania), northward to the Bukovina...
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Black Sea Steppe
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World
...BLACK SEA STEPPE BLACK SEA STEPPE. The land above the northern coast of the Black Sea, bounded by the Prut River in the west and the Kuban River in the east, was of considerable potential economic and geopolitical value in the sixteenth through...
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Kolomyya
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Kolomyya , Ger. Kolomea, Pol. Kołomyja, city (1989 pop. 63,000), W Ukraine, on the Prut River and in the Carpathian foothills. It is a rail junction and agricultural trade center. Industries include brewing, food processing...
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Chernivtsi
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...Cernauţi, Rus. Chernovtsy, city (1989 pop. 257,000), capital of Chernivtsi region, SW Ukraine, on the Prut River and in the Carpathian foothills. It is a rail junction and the economic, cultural, and scientific center of the region...
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Eastern Question
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa
...lose the short-lived conquest along with a claim to power over the Black Sea after a disastrous defeat (1711) at the Prut River (later in Romania). The Ottoman recapture of the Crimea's Tatar khanates was ratified in 1713, in the Treaty of...
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Bessarabia
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...c.17,600 sq mi (45,600 sq km), largely in Moldova and Ukraine. It is bounded by the Dniester River on the north and east, the Prut on the west, and the Danube and the Black Sea on the south. Consisting mainly of a hilly plain with flat...
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Danube
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...Dunav, Ukr. Dunay, great river of central and SE Europe, c...Inn , Drava , Tisza , Sava , and Prut . Navigation and Commerce Navigable...strikes destroyed bridges across the river in Serbia, obstructing river commerce; the debris was completely...
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