Kammala jumla mai zuwa: Bessarabia yanki ne tsakanin kogin Prut da Dniester wanda Daular Rasha ta kwace daga Masarautar Moldavia a 1812. Wannan ya haifar da aiwatar da Rashawa da mulkin mallaka na lardin, wanda ya rage yawan mutanen Romania a yankin. A shekara ta 1859, Moldavia ta haɗa kai da Wallachia, ta zama ƙasar Romania ta zamani. Farawar Juyin Juya Halin Rasha na 1917 ya ba Bessarabia damar ayyana kanta a matsayin mai zaman kanta, ta kafa Jamhuriyar Demokradiyyar Moldavian yayin da Yaƙin Duniya na I ke gudana. A ranar 27 ga Maris, 1918, wannan jihar ta haɗu da Romania, wannan shine dalilin ranar tunawa. Romania ta rasa iko da Bessarabia da kuma Arewacin Bukovina bayan
mamayar wadannan yankuna da Tarayyar Soviet (USSR) a 1940, tare da Romania ta sake dawo da su a takaice a 1941 amma ta sake rasa su a 1944.