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    Bender ([benˈder], Moldovan Cyrillic: Бендер) or Bendery (Russian: Бендеры, [bʲɪnˈdɛrɨ]; Ukrainian: Бендери), also known as Tighina (Moldovan Cyrillic:...
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  • Petrov Bender (TV series), a 1979 TV series produced by Terry Becker Bender, Moldova, a city Bender, Georgia, United States, a ghost town Bender (band)...
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    name of the city and Tighina is the Romanian one, with Bender being an old Ottoman name. Bender was one of the points of greatest fighting during the whole...
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    Moldova, officially the Republic of Moldova, is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe, on the northeastern corner of the Balkans. The country spans a...
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    Tighina; renamed by the Turks as Bender) is a 15th-century fortress on the right bank of the Dniester River in Bender, Moldova, built from earth and wood during...
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    villages, along with Varnița and Copanca, near Bender and Tiraspol, are claimed by the PMR. One city (Bender) and six villages located on the west bank (in...
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    The Skirmish at Bender (Swedish: Kalabaliken i Bender; Finnish: Benderin kalabaliikki) was devised to remove Charles XII of Sweden from the Ottoman Empire...
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    Bender. Transnistria, which with the exception of six communes (comprising a total of ten localities) corresponds to the geographic part of Moldova situated...
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    the Dniestr and move deep into Moldova, the Moldovan military ordered an airstrike to destroy the bridge between Bender and Tiraspol. A three MiG-29 package...
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    Chișinău, 18% live in Tiraspol, 11% in Bender and 6% in Bălți. Most of the Gagauz live in the south of Moldova in the autonomous region of Gagauzia. Declared...
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  • Telenești Tighina (Bender)     Ungheni Chișinău municipality Chișinău Codru Cricova Durlești Sîngera Vadul lui Vodă     Vatra southern Moldova Basarabeasca...
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  • KSKhI Chișinău 1955 : Burevestnik Bender 1956 : Spartak Tiraspol 1957 : KSKhI Chișinău 1958 : Moldavkabel' Bender 1959 : NIISVIV Chișinău 1960 : Tiraspol...
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    The Bender Uprising was organized by local Bolshevik groups in Bender/Tighina on 27 May 1919, as a protest of the local population against the annexation...
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    Constitution of Pylyp Orlyk (category Bender, Moldova)
    the 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...
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  • The Battle of Bender (1738) was a battle during the Austro-Russian–Turkish War (1735–39). In 1738, under the leadership of Burkhard Christoph von Münnich...
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    Viktor Sokolov (naval officer) (category People from Bender, Moldova)
    Ukraine. Sokolov was born on 4 April 1962 in Bender (Tighina), in the Moldavian SSR of the Soviet Union (now Moldova, under Transnistrian control). He entered...
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    Nicolai Lilin (category People from Bender, Moldova)
    defeated by the Soviets. By order of Stalin, the Urkas were deported to Bender, Moldova in 1938. In an interview with Vanity Fair, Lilin stated that the Urkas...
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    Diocese of Tiraspol and Dubossary, Bender, a town controlled by Transnistria, de facto independent territory of Moldova. Its history dates back to 1814 when...
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    Mikhail Chernyayev (category People from Bender, Moldova)
    Chernyaev (Russian: Михаил Григорьевич Черняев) (3 November / 22 October 1828, Bender, Bessarabia Governorate – 16 August 1898) was a Russian major general, who...
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    Montesilvano is twinned with: Gradiška, Bosnia and Herzegovina, since 2018 Bender, Moldova Hajdúböszörmény, Hungary Giò Di Tonno, singer Dean Martin, singer and...
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    Jerzy Neyman (category People from Bender, Moldova)
    (1894-04-16)April 16, 1894 Bendery, Bessarabia Governorate, Russian Empire (now Bender, Moldova) Died August 5, 1981(1981-08-05) (aged 87) Oakland, California, US...
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  • / Mezhbizh (from Opatów, Poland) Beitsh (from Biecz, Poland) Bender (from Bender, Moldova) Berditchev (Levi Yitzchok of Berditchev (1740–1810) from Berdychiv...
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    legacy.: 542  In an inscription dating from 1537 on the citadel of Bender, Moldova, Suleiman the Magnificent gave expression to his power: I am God's...
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    Tamara Buciuceanu (category People from Bender, Moldova)
    Tamara Buciuceanu-Botez (10 August 1929 – 15 October 2019) was a Romanian stage, screen and television actress, as well a known TV personality. She was...
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    Maxim Stoyanov (category People from Bender, Moldova)
    Socialist Republic, USSR (now Bender, under the control of Transnistria, which is internationally recognized as part of Moldova) into the family of a train...
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  • Aleksandr Nikitin (politician, born 1987) (category People from Bender, Moldova)
    Aleksandr Nikitin was born on 27 October 1987 in Bender, in the Moldavian SSR of the Soviet Union (now in Moldova, under Transnistrian control). In 2012, he...
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  • Stadionul Dinamo (Russian: Стадион «Динамо») is a football stadium in Bender, Moldova. It is the home ground of FC Tighina. In addition to Tighina, FC Florești...
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  • Bender Dragoon Regiment (Benderska Dragonregementet) was a Swedish Dragoon regiment, raised from Swedish soldiers in Bender, Moldova, then in the Ottoman...
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    Emil Constantinescu (category People from Bender, Moldova)
    1939, in Tighina, Ținutul Nistru, Kingdom of Romania, which today is named Bender and de facto part of Transnistria. His mother, Maria Georgeta Colceag, was...
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  • FC Tighina (redirect from FC Tighina Bender)
    Burevestnik Bender In 1959: Lokomotiv Bender 1960—1969: Nistrul Bender 1970—1987: Pishchevik Bender / Kharchovyk Bendery In 1988: Tighina Bender In 1989:...
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