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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A city of southeast Moldova on the Dniester River east of Chişinău. Founded c. 1792 as a Russian fortress on the site of a Moldavian settlement, Tiraspol is the principal city of the breakaway region of Transnistria.
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- proper noun The
capital city ofTransnistria
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Examples
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A city called Tiraspol exists today in Moldavia, near the Romanian border in the region of Ancient Thrace!
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After the Soviet Union's collapse and calls by Moldovan nationalists for the expulsion of Russians, he moved to Tiraspol.
In This Tiny Land, Some Wish They Were Back in the U.S.S.R. Gordon Fairclough 2011
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"Here, there is a history of Russian rule," says Vecheslav Semenov, 73, a retiree living in Tiraspol.
In This Tiny Land, Some Wish They Were Back in the U.S.S.R. Gordon Fairclough 2011
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The standoff between authorities in Chisinau and Tiraspol has been largely peaceful, with no major violence since 1992, yet rapprochement has proved elusive, for reasons of geopolitics as well as deep differences in local identities.
In This Tiny Land, Some Wish They Were Back in the U.S.S.R. Gordon Fairclough 2011
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It's different if you aren't from here, says Anya Edinak, 19, who is studying math and physics at a university in Tiraspol.
In This Tiny Land, Some Wish They Were Back in the U.S.S.R. Gordon Fairclough 2011
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THE GIRL IN THE GROUP: Men dressed like World War II Soviet soldiers -- and a girl -- participated in a military parade Thursday in Tiraspol, Moldova, marking the Independence Day of Moldova's self-proclaimed separatist Dnestr region.
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The play attracted a great deal of interest: the leading members of the State Yiddish Theater in Moscow (known by the acronym GOSET) came to see it, and the work was the first of several plays to tour other performance halls throughout the Moldavian Republic, including Tiraspol and Chernovtsy.
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Based on these facts, I request that you organize the cleanup of the stairwells of the building at Zapadnyi Per. 19/1 in Tiraspol as soon as possible.
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Movie theater, downtown Tiraspol, originally uploaded by lyndonk2
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Here are my translations of a couple of recent posts to ocity, a Russian-language LiveJournal community set up by residents of Tiraspol, Transdniester's capital (which also exists outside of LJ):
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