In the spring of 1944, as the Soviet Red Army pushed westward, the Germans found themselves fighting a desperate retreat, ...

Battle of Targu Frumos During April and May of 1944, the Soviet 2nd Tank Army tried to break through the German-Romanian lines on the river Pruth in order to gain access to Central Romania with its ...

The controversy between Russia and Rumania over the ownership of Bessarabia (a border province of rather more than 17,000 square miles lying on the Black Sea to the west of Odessa and bounded by the ...

1853 The Russian Army crossed the Pruth river into the Danubian Principalities, Moldavia and Wallachiaproviding the spark that set off the Crimean War.

The agreement between the Government of Romania and the Government of the Republic of Moldova on regulating the construction of aqueducts running underneath the Pruth River to supply with fresh water ...