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The 15 pages that link to Bessarabia, each with the reason it gives.

• Treaty of Paris (1856)Related: Russia ceded part of southern Bessarabia, altering the Danube frontier.

• MoldovaRelated: Much of today’s Moldova occupies Bessarabia, a region repeatedly transferred between empires.

• MoldaviaBroader topic: Russian annexation of Bessarabia in 1812 detached a large eastern part of Moldavia.

• Moldovan Soviet Socialist RepublicRelated: Most of the republic's territory came from this region, which the Soviet Union seized in 1940.

• PodoliaRelated: Bessarabia borders Podolia to the southwest across the Dniester.

• DniesterRelated: The Dniester marked Bessarabia’s eastern boundary for long periods.

• Odesa OblastRelated: Parts of present-day Odesa Oblast belong to this historically contested region.

• Chernivtsi OblastCompared with: The oblast borders Bessarabian lands, but its core historical identity is northern Bukovina.

• ChișinăuNarrower topic: Chișinău’s history is closely tied to this changing borderland.

• Gagauz peopleRelated: Gagauz communities settled in this region during the nineteenth century.

• Siege of OdessaRelated: Its recapture was a central Romanian war aim before the Odessa offensive.

• History of MoldovaBroader topic: The region’s changing borders became central to modern Moldovan history.

• History of TransnistriaRelated: Its changing borders distinguish the west-bank lands from Transnistria's separate imperial trajectory.

• TiraspolRelated: The city’s fortunes were shaped by political changes in this neighboring historical region.

• Unification of Moldavia and WallachiaCompared with: Its exclusion from the 1859 union shows that Romanian national unification remained territorially incomplete.