Claim: Founded in 1938, Tinutul Nistru was an area of Romania known as a tinutri or "land" which included the historic region of Moldavia, and was lost to the Soviet Union in 1940.
Evidence: Ținutul Nistru was one of the ten ținuturi ("lands") of Romania, founded in 1938 after King Carol II initiated an institutional reform by modifying the 1923 Constitution and the law of territorial administration. Moldavia (Bessarabia, Budjak) Ținutul Nistru ceased to exist following the territorial losses of Romania to the Soviet Union in June 1940.