Show MOLDAVIA now that Rou mailla has doubled its area and population thus becoming the largest of the I 1 balkan alkan states it Is attracting more interest and attention among nations of the world moldavia the north wing of 0 the butterfly shaped nou Rou maola mauda ot of prewar pre war lays days was conspicuous during the struggle for being squeezed between the austro german armies on the north and other central powers for ces attacking on the south i moldavia had approximately one fourth of the population and one fourth of the area ot of the Kou manla of 1914 the population Is a little less than two und and a quarter million and file he area a little less than square miles to the vest est of it lie ile transylvania and the austrian crown lands of bukovina Buk owina to the cast lies Bes sarabia with the riner pruth marking the boundary the entire distance on oil the south Is Wal Wallac lachia hla the other wing ing of the Rou doumanian manian kingdom the river divides moldavia into eastern and western sections hotting floN Illg tile the entire length of the principality cip ci along tile the foothills of the carpathian mountains eastern mol daila daia composed mainly of the high plateau lying between the pruth and the sareth Is approximately miles long and has an average width of about GO miles western Mold moldavia avla is entirely mountainous the crest of 01 the Carpathia ns forming the boundary be between teen it and austria hungary the history of the principality of moldavia Is of striking interest it was founded about the middle of the fourteenth century by the wallach bogden it soon grew to be a large state embracing the present moldavia bukovina Buk owina and Bes sarabia poland and hungary were both rivals for favor at the court with neither able permanently to assert its stephen the great ruled moldavia from 1157 to 1504 and defied the turks winning a signal victory over them at isakova ra ova in 1475 1473 gradually growing stronger ho however uever the moslems succeeded again under stephen the greats successor hor bor in establishing tab lishing their mastery although the turks never settled the country they proceeded to bul build II 11 fortresses and thus managed to hold their ground up to 1821 the country was governed by hospod ars appointed by the sultan from the families of greek aristocrats toc rats in that year native princes were once more made to hend head the government ern ment but in russia having gained a victory over turkey was accorded a protectorate oer moldavia Mol daia under the treaty of Adria nople this treaty was terminated by the crimean war aar and the treaty of paris thereafter the powers agreed to set up the two principalities of moldavia and Wal achIa lachia which in their turn decided in 1859 ga that they would unite under one head and become one COUP try |