Dniester

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The Dniester (Polish Dniestr, Ukrainian Дністер (Dnister), Romanian Nistru, Russian Днестр (Dnestr), Yiddish‫נעסטער ‬ (nester), Serbian (Dnjester) and during antiquity was called Tyras in Latin) is a river in Eastern Europe. It rises in Ukraine, near Drohobych close to the border with Poland, and flows toward the Black Sea. For a short while it marks the border of Ukraine and Moldova, after which it separates Moldova and Transnistria for 398 km. It leaves this region and becomes the Moldova-Ukraine border again, then flows through Ukraine to the Black Sea.

Before World War II the Dniester formed part of the boundary between Romania and the Soviet Union. During the war battles were fought on the banks of the river between the German and Romanian invaders and the Soviet defenders.

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