Nyorai kuenderera mberi kweiyi ndima - Bessarabia inzvimbo iri pakati pePrut neDniester nzizi iyo Humambo hweRussia hwakabatanidza kubva kuPrincipality yeMoldavia muna 1812. Izvi zvakatungamirira kuti muitiro Russification uye colonization mudunhu, izvo zvakakomba akaderedza Romanian vokuparidzira nharaunda. Muna 1859, Moldova yakabatana neWallachia, ichiumba nyika yemazuva ano yeRomania. Kutanga kweRussian Revolution ya1917 kwakabvumira Bessarabia kuzvisarudzira, kuumba Democratic Republic yeMoldova apo Hondo Yenyika I yakanga ichiitika. Musi waMarch 27, 1918, nyika iyi yakabatana neRomania, ichi chiri chikonzero chezuva rinorangarirwa. Romania yakarasikirwa nekutonga kweBessarabia uyewo kweNorthern Bukovina mushure mekugara
Nzvimbo idzi dzakatorwa neSoviet Union (USSR) muna 1940, neRomania ichidzidzorera kwenguva pfupi muna 1941 asi ichidzirasa zvakare muna 1944.