page_title: Moldavia
section_title: Culture
hierarchical_section_title: Moldavia / Culture
caption_attribution_description: English: The cover of "Albina Românească" - Gazetă politică şi literară", issue no. 9, Iaşi, February 1, 1840.
context_page_description: Moldavia is a historical region and former principality in Central and Eastern Europe, corresponding to the territory between the Eastern Carpathians and the Dniester River. An initially independent and later autonomous state, it existed from the 14th century to 1859, when it united with Wallachia as the basis of the modern Romanian state; at various times, Moldavia included the regions of Bessarabia, all of Bukovina and Hertza. The region of Pokuttya was also part of it for a period of time.
  The western half of Moldavia is now part of Romania, the eastern side belongs to the Republic of Moldova, and the northern and southeastern parts are territories of Ukraine.
caption: Albina Românească (The Romanian Bee) was, in 1829, the first Romanian-language journal published in Moldavia.
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