Tighina

Tighina or Bender (Russian: Бендеры; Moldavian: Tighina/Тигина) is a municipality of the République of Moldavie, which is on the territory of the Transnistrie, republic secessionist in the Moldavian area in the east of the river Dniestr. Its geographical position is, its population was of 130.000 with the census of 1989. It has the statute of municipality.

There was an occupation with the confluence of the rivers Dniestr and Bug since IIe century, growing and passing successively under control of the Rus' of Kiev, of the Moldavie, Genoa, the Ottoman Empire, the Russia and the Romania. With Dubasari and Grigoriopol, Tighina is one of the towns of Transnistrie which have a very large Rumanian population .

History

The fortress of Tighina is already mentioned like an important customs house in a privilege granted by the Moldavian Hospodar Alexandre Ier the Good ( Alexandru concealment Bun ) to the merchants of Lviv the October 8th 1408. The document is written in Slavic Vieux Eastern, and the place is called " Тягянакача" (Tyagyanakacha). The name of Tighina appears for the first time in documents dating from second half of the 15th century.

In 1538, the Othoman sultan Soliman the Magnificent the conquers the fortress and re-elects it Bender . At the 18th century, the zone of the fort east wide and modernized by the prince de Moldavie Antioche Cantemir, supervised by the Othomans. In 1713, the fortress is the theater of a battle ( kalabalik ) between Charles XII of Sweden, which had taken refuge here with the chief of the Cosaques Ivan Stepanovich Mazepa, after the failure of their attack of the Russia, and the Othomans who wanted to take it as an hostage and to thus exploit the political difficulties of the Central Europe.

Tighina falls to the hands from the Russians during the Russo-Turkish Guerre (1806-1812), and is annexed with the Bessarabia by Russia in 1812, and remains between its possession until in 1917. As belonging to Bessarabia, Tighina belongs to the Romania between 1918 and 1940, like between 1941 and 1944.

During the War of Transnistrie, the majority of the engagements proceed in the city, which is a strategic position on Right Bank of the Dniestr, to 10 km of Tiraspol. Tighina is officially a demilitarized zone since the conflict of 1992, but remains controlled by the Transnistrie, republic secessionist of the République of Moldavie.

Famous people

The native personalities of Tighina include/understand:

External bonds

  • Chart of the city

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