Tighina Fortress information

The Tighina Fortress (Romanian: Cetatea Tighina; renamed by the Turks as Bender) is a 15th-century fortress on the right bank of the Dniester River in...

printed vertically between the denomination numeral and the vignette of the fortress. These lines, “Pe-un picior de plai, pe-o gură de rai”, translate as “near...

his eastern frontier, strengthened the Orhei and Tighina fortresses, and built the Soroca fortress, thus completing the Eastern line of defence along...

Tighina Fortress museum, and since 2014 he has served as chairman of a public organization promoting the restoration and preservation of the Fortress...

when the graves of Swedish and Russian soldiers that died near the Tighina Fortress in 1709 were relocated. In the 19th century, several leaders of Don...

prince Petru Rareș of Moldavia to give up the fortress-city Tighina as well. Under the Ottomans, Tighina was renamed Bender, while Chilia lost importance...

The Dniester at the Moldavian fortress of Tighina....

and the Whites. The Khotyn Uprising was closely followed by a raid on Tighina, carried out by the Bessarabian Bolshevik Grigory Kotovsky, whose forces...

the river Răut, often dubbed the "Northern capital" of Moldova; Bender/Tighina, on the Dniester, currently controlled by the unrecognized Russian-backed...

punishment for his predecessor's disobedience Suleiman also annexed the fortress of Tighina with surrounding area, a further territorial loss for Moldavia after...

Cossacks of the Zaporozhian Army on the 5 April 1710 in the city of Bender (Tighina) in the Principality of Moldavia. It is sometimes called the First Constitution...

Egypt (Miṣra (i.e. Mısıra) Sulṭān) in the inscription in the fortress of Bender (Bendery, Tighina) in Moldova, AH 945 (29 May 1538–18 May 1539). The title...

territory of Moldavia, turning it into an Ottoman vassal. The city of Tighina, as well as the 18 villages adjacent to it, were turned into a Turkish...

number of castles, including the new fortresses at Roman and Tighina. The pârcălabi (or commanders) of the fortresses were invested with administrative and...

independence to Ukraine. Mazepa fled with Charles XII to the fortress of Bender (Tighina), in the Ottoman Empire's vassal Moldavia, where Mazepa soon...

Sigismund II Augustus says that some of his Moldavian subjects plundered Tighina and Akkerman and then retreated and settled in the Polish territory. While...

Chișinău – 532,513 (662,836 in metropolitan area) Bălți – 97,930 (102,457) Tighina (Bender) – 91,882 In 1562, the so-called Schola Latina (a Latin Academic...

remains are scanty, as the city site was built over by the great medieval fortress of Monocastro or Akkerman. During the Middle Ages, the area around Tiraspol...

Chisinau (1949), currently 340 trolleybuses serving 30 routes, Bălți (1972), Tighina (1993) and Tiraspol (1967). Trolleybuses, along with rutierele, are the...

Sigismund II Augustus says that some of his Moldavian subjects plundered Tighina and Akkerman and then retreated and settled in the Polish territory. While...

appointed by the sultan. At the same time, the sultan occupied Brăila and Tighina (now in Moldova), and the Budjak region (now in Ukraine). Peter IV Rareș...

Bender/Tighina and Cetatea Albă.: 38  Especially fierce resistance was met at Bender, a strategic railroad junction and the site of a major fortress, where...

Elena Cathedral Residence of the Bishop of Hotin (Strada Visarion Puiu 7) Tighina Mulmana Hospital Sarandë Nicolae Iorga House (Rruga Mitat Hoxha), headquarters...