Original sentence: Furthermore, unlike Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina, the region had not been a part of Imperial Russia or Austria-Hungary before World War I but had been a part of Romania and its predecessor state, Moldavia, before that
Edited sentence: Furthermore, unlike Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina, the region had not been a part of Russia or Austria-Hungary before World War I but had been a part of Romania and its predecessor state, Moldavia, before that