Not only have I heard many, many people speaking Romanian in public in Pridnestrovie, I’ve also done it myself. Nearly one-third of the people who live in Transnistria speak the language, so I don’t know where this rumor came from, but it is a persistent one.
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Myth #1: The country is called Transnistria, Trans-Dniestr, or Transdniestria
Over the past 1,000 years, the area now known as Transnistria has had a lot of names, but none of them were ever “Transnistria” except for a brief period of time during World War 2 when it was under fascist occupation.
The King of Romania Podcast – Episode 1
Oh my word, what a crazy adventure I’ve been having lately with my new computer. It took forever to find what I was looking for at the right price, and now it’s paid for but not here and literally nobody knows when it will come. So where is it? Ah, that’s the story for another…