Moldova is a territory which is landlocked and considered part of Eastern Europe.
 Its territory comprised the present-day territory of the Republic of Moldova, the eastern eight counties of Romania, and parts of the Chernivtsi Oblast and Budjak region of present-day Ukraine
While most of today's Moldova came into the Ottoman orbit in the 16th century, a substantial part of Transnistria remained a part of the PolishLithuanian Commonwealth until the Second Partition of Poland in 1793

