page_title: Bender, Moldova
section_title: People and culture
hierarchical_section_title: Bender, Moldova / People and culture
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Im Zentrum von Bendery
context_page_description: Bender is a city within the internationally recognized borders of Moldova under de facto control of the unrecognized Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic since 1992. It is located on the western bank of the river Dniester in the Romanian historical region of Bessarabia.
  Together with its suburb Proteagailovca, the city forms a municipality, which is separate from Transnistria according to Moldovan law. Bender is located in the buffer zone established at the end of the 1992 War of Transnistria. While the Joint Control Commission has overriding powers in the city, Transnistria has de facto administrative control.
  The fortress of Tighina was one of the important historic fortresses of the Principality of Moldova.
  It is also the home town of former president of Romania, Prof. Dr. Emil Constantinescu.
caption: City centre
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