What the records say
- When
- Jun 1941 – Sep 1944
- Kind
- Territorial claim
- Coordinates
- 46.90° N, 28.80° E
- Region
- 2
- Claim resolution
- 4
- Claim violence
- 1
- Significance
- 12
- Significance index
- 3
- Significance state1
- 6
Placed at the area, not an exact site.
Bessarabian question
Controversy over the ownership of the geographic region of Bessarabia
The Bessarabian question, Bessarabian issue or Bessarabian problem is the name given to the controversy over the ownership of the geographic region of Bessarabia that began with the annexation of the region by the Russian Empire from the Romanian principality of Moldavia in 1812 through the Treaty of Bucharest and which continued with the independence and union of Bessarabia with Romania in 1917, the occupation and a…
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The source
- ICOW Territorial Claims 1816–2001Issue Correlates of WarCorrelates of War: free use with citation
Nearby in time and place
- Bessarabia → Romania27 Aug 1941 · Territorial change
- Operation München2 Jul 1941 · Military operation
- Bessarabia → Soviet Union28 Jun 1940 · Territorial change
- Iași pogrom29 Jun 1941 · Pogrom · Deaths 13,256
- Transnistria → Romania19 Aug 1941 · Territorial change
- Siege of Odesa 19418 Aug 1941 · Siege
- 1941 Odessa massacre1941 · Massacre · Deaths 34,000
- Battle of Jibrieni17 Dec 1941 · Battle