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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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    June 1992 in the Bender (Tighina) area. However, a full-scale battle erupted after regular Moldovan forces entered the city of Bender in an attempt to...
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    Bendery is the Russian 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...
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  • Bender In 1959: Lokomotiv Bender 1960—1969: Nistrul Bender 1970—1987: Pishchevik Bender / Kharchovyk Bendery In 1988: Tighina Bender In 1989: Tighina-RShVSM...
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  • The Battle of Bender, Battle of Tighina or Battle of Bendery may refer to: Skirmish at Bender at 1713, fought between the Swedish Empire and the Ottoman...
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    cities of Tiraspol and Bender), which had an absolute Bulgarian majority and a total population of around 10,000. In Bender (Tighina) and the other non-Transnistria...
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  • Chișinău, Comrat, Edineț, Hîncești, Orhei, Soroca, Strășeni, Ungheni, Bender (Tighina), and Tiraspol. The other 53 have city status. For the distribution...
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    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...
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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 Russian population against the...
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  • the Anenii Noi District, Moldova, located near Bender (Tighina). It is also considered a suburb of Bender. After the 1992 War of Transnistria, Varnița remained...
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    Gagauzia and the Left Bank of the Dniester. The latter and a city Bender (Tighina), is under the de facto control of Transnistria.  Monaco – Principality...
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    independence to Ukraine. Mazepa fled with Charles XII to the fortress of Bender (Tighina), in the Ottoman Empire's vassal Moldavia, where Mazepa soon died.[citation...
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    Constitution of Pylyp Orlyk (category Bender, Moldova)
    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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  • Tighina County may refer to: Tighina County (Moldova) Tighina County (Romania) This disambiguation page lists articles about distinct geographical locations...
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    Republic (Transnistria), but there are two important differences: Bender (Tighina) is included in the unrecognized Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic...
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    Russian army during the heaviest fighting in and around the city of Bender (Tighina), in the wake of a coordinated offensive by Moldovan forces, General...
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    of Bender.[citation needed] The breakaway PMR authorities also claim the communes of Varnița, in the Anenii Noi District, a northern suburb of Bender, and...
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  • Proteagailovca (category Villages of Bender Municipality)
    Протягайлівка, romanized: Protyagaylivka) is a village in the municipality of Bender (Tighina), Moldova. It had a population of 3,142 at the 2004 Census. The locality...
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    Tsar had reached Bessarabia. The first local soviet was created in Bender/Tighina on 21 March 1917, and by May 1917 soviets had been created in all district...
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  • Bender (Tighina)    ...
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    artillery strike on 3 July 1992 on a Moldovan unit in a forest near Bender (Tighina). It is generally accepted that this strike led to the strategic victory...
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    Viktor Sokolov (naval officer) (category People from Bender, Moldova)
    the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Sokolov was born on 4 April 1962 in Bender (Tighina), in the Moldavian SSR of the Soviet Union (now Moldova, under Transnistrian...
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  • the Left Bank of the Dniester. The latter, as well as the city of Bender (Tighina), are under the de facto control of Transnistria.  Monaco – Principality...
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    territory to the east of the River Dniester, and also to the city of Bender (Tighina) and its surrounding localities on the west bank in the historical...
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    Moldavian Republic (PMR, also known as Pridnestrovie). There, Tighina is known as Bender. Pridnestrovie, which with the exception of six communes (comprising...
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    on the river Răut, often dubbed the "Northern capital" of Moldova; Bender/Tighina, on the Dniester, currently controlled by the unrecognized Russian-backed...
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    Alexandru cel Bun High School (Liceul Teoretic Alexandru cel Bun), Bender (Tighina) Ștefan cel Mare și Sfânt High School (Liceul Teoretic Ștefan cel Mare...
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  • the population of the second largest Transnistrian-controlled city, Bender (Tighina). The ethnic composition results were the following: Russians: 29.1%...
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    recent municipii were created in 2003. Chișinău, Tiraspol, Bălți, and Bender/Tighina have been municipii continuously since 1995, and Comrat since 1998....
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  • Anenii Noi district MD-BS Basarabeasca district MD-BA Bălți city MD-BD Bender [Tighina] city MD-BR Briceni district MD-CA Cahul district MD-CT Cantemir district...
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