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Chişinău

Concise Dictionary of World Place-Names | 2005 | | Copyright

Chişinău, Moldova Kishinëv First documented in 1466, it may derive its name from the Tatar kish or Turkish kiş, both ‘winter’ or ‘winter cold’. It came under Ottoman Turkish control after the death of Stefan III (1435–1504), Prince of Moldavia (1457–1504). An alternative possibility is that the name comes from the Old Moldovan kishineu ‘spring’ or ‘well’. The city adopted the Russian equivalent of Chişinău, Kishinëv, when ceded by the Ottoman Turks to Russia in 1812 until it was included within Romania in 1918–40 when it became Chişinău once more. When taken by the Soviet Union in 1940 the name Kishinëv was restored, but when Moldova achieved independence in 1991, it reverted once more to Chişinău. The city has been the capital of the Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic and then of Moldova since 1940.

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Chişinău

The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed. | 2011 | Copyright

Chişinău , formerly Kishinev , city (1996 est. pop. 735,229), capital of Moldova, on the Byk River, a tributary of the Dniester. Major industries include food and tobacco processing, the assembly of consumer and electrical goods, and the manufacture of building materials, machinery, plastics, rubber, and textiles. Founded in the early 15th cent. as a monastery town, Chişinău was taken in the 16th cent. by the Turks and in 1812 by the Russians, who made it the center of Bessarabia. Romania held the city from 1918 to 1940, when it was seized by the USSR. The Jewish population, which formerly constituted about 40% of the total, was largely exterminated in World War II. Chişinău's educational and cultural facilities include a university (1945) and the Academy of Sciences of Moldova.

Bibliography: See E. H. Judge, Easter in Kishinev: Anatomy of a Pogrom (1992).

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Chisinau

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Chisinau (Kishinev) Capital of Moldova, in the centre of the country, on the River Byk. Founded in the early 15th century, it came under Turkish then Russian rule. Romania held the city from 1918 until the Soviet Union annexed it in 1940. In 1991 it became capital of independent Moldova. It has a 19th-century cathedral and a university (1945). Industries: plastics, rubber, textiles, tobacco. Pop. (2002 est.) 776,700.