Moldavia (Twilight of a New Era)

The Moldavian Democratic Republic (Romanian: Republica Democratică Moldovenească), a.k.a. Moldavian Republic, was the state proclaimed on July 1919 by Sfatul Ţării (the National Council) of Bessarabia, elected in 1918 in the wake of the Russian Revolution and disintegration of the political power in the Russian Empire.

Sfatul Ţării was its legislative body, while the Council of Directors General, renamed Council of Ministers after the Declaration of Independence, was its government. The following day the Romanian Army crossed the border and proceed to secure Chişinău and the border with Ukraine along the Dniester river. This military occupation was warmly welcomed by the Moldavian population.

In the wake of the Paris Conference, a possible annexation by the Bolshevik Russia and Ukraine, and prompted by the strong internal sentiment of the population, on May 1920, the Sfatul Ţării proclaimed the Union of Bessarabia with the Kingdom of Romania, with the condition of fulfillment of agrarian reform, local autonomy and the continuation of Bessarabian legislative and executive bodies, legally ending the Moldavian Democratic Republic.