Moldavian Autonomous Oblast
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Moldavian Autonomous Oblast was created on March 07, 1924 within the Ukrainian SSR.
The new oblast had four districts, all of them having a Moldovan majority: [1]
- Rîbniţa with 48,748 inhabitants, of which 25,387 Moldovans (52%)
- Dubăsari with 57,371 inhabitants, of which 33,600 Moldovans (58%)
- Tiraspol, entirely Moldovan
- Ananiv with 45,545 inhabitants, of which 24,249 Moldovans (53%)
On 12 October 1924 the oblast was elevated to the status of autonomous republic, the Moldavian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic.
[edit] Notes and References
- ^ Ion Nistor, Vechimea aşezărilor româneşti dincolo de Nistru, Monitorul Oficial şi Imprimeriile Statului, Imprimeria Naţională, Bucureşti, 1939, p.19, who cites Izvestia, 29 August 1924
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