page_title: Political status of Transnistria
section_title: Historical status of Transnistria
hierarchical_section_title: Political status of Transnistria / Historical status of Transnistria
caption_attribution_description: English: English and according with the official Pridnestrian point of view administrative map of Pridnestria, by Nicolay Sidorov.
context_page_description: The political status of Transnistria, a self-proclaimed state on the internationally recognized territory of Moldova, has been disputed since the Transnistrian declaration of independence on 2 September 1990. This declaration sought to establish a Soviet Socialist Republic that would be independent from local Moldovan authority. Following the breakup of the Soviet Union and Moldova's own declaration of independence in 1991, the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic was transformed into the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic. However no United Nations member country recognizes the PMR's independence.
  The Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic obtained diplomatic recognition only from Abkhazia, South Ossetia and the Artsakh, three post-Soviet states with minimal recognition themselves.
caption: Administrative divisions of actual Transnistria
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