Pohrebea
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Pohrebea or Pogrebea is a village near Dubăsari on the border between Moldova and Transnistria, part of which is located in a buffer zone overseen by the three-nation Joint Control Commission. During the 1992 War of Transnistria it was the center of some of the heaviest fighting. As a legacy of that war, Pogrebea today hosts one of the largest areas of unremoved landmines in the region.[1]
In Romanian language, Pogrebă means "a basement", and -ea is a specific ending in Romanian; the addition of which means that Pogrebea signifies "the basement".
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