This naturally favorable land was populated since Paleolithic epoch. From archeological excavations we know that there were living people 7000 years BC on this territory. You can find the proof in a very interesting archeological museum in Chisinau city.

Today Moldova occupies most of what has been known as Bessarabia, which represents less of the half of the historical Moldova. For many centuries Moldova was the victim of frequent warfare. The main reason was because Moldova's important location - a historic passageway between Asia and Europe. Romans, Huns, Tatars, Turks, Hungarians, Germans and many others passed through that land known as "The Gate" between the Carpathians and the Black Sea, which in the 13th century became part of the Mongol Empire. Moldova emerged as an independent state in the 14th century. The first document referring to the "Land of Moldova" dates back to 1359 AD. In 1391 AD, the ethnic group "Moldovans" was mentioned for the first time.

The peak time in the formation of the medieval Moldovan state - situated between the Carpathians, the Danube and the Black Sea - was the rule of Stefan III (1457-1504 AD). He was also called Stefan the Great and Saint and defended the sovereignty of Moldova in battles with Turkish Janissaries, Hungarian and Polish royal troops and Crimea Khans. During his rule no other nation could seize Moldova. He was known as a good diplomat and warrior. Other countries governors said that Stefan III was brave in wars and modest in good fortune. He had 47 battles and built 47 churches on those places as a memory. Stefan the Great is real national hero in Republic of Moldova.

In the 16th century, Ottoman Empire conquered the Moldova State. The Turkish yoke lasted for almost 300 years.

After the Russo-Turkish War of 1806-12, the eastern half of Moldova (Bessarabia) between the Prut and the Dniester Rivers was ceded to Russia, while today's Romanian Moldova (west of the Prut) remained with the Turks. Romania, which gained independence in 1878, took control of the Russian half of Moldova in 1918. The Soviet Union never recognized the seizure and in 1924 created an autonomous Moldavian republic on the East Side of the Dniester River as part of the Soviet Ukraine, USSR.

 In August 1940, the Moldovan Soviet Socialist Republic was declared a member of Soviet Union. But during World War II, for several years the territory of the republic formed part of Romania. After the war this land became again part of the Soviet Union. The soviet administration decided to give the southern and northern parts to Ukraine and Transdniestria to present Moldova. During the 1950's many Russian teachers, doctors, engineers have been brought to Moldova, Latin alphabet been changed into the Cyrillic one.

In late 80s in Moldova began the national liberation movements. The proclamation of the Moldovan language as the official language was on August 31, 1989. On August 27, 1991, the Republic of Moldova gained its independence and became sovereign state. Independence did not come without its drawbacks. As a result, Moldova has faced two ethnic conflicts and the short but bloody civil war of 1992. Moldova's internal struggle began when the ethnic Russian minority on the eastern side of the Dniester River rose up against the government. The aria to the left from the river Dniester has declared itself an autonomous state: the "Trans-Dniester Republic", which was not recognized by any other country in the world. This little sliver of land is one of the last places in the world that practices a pure Stalinist form of government. It is like stepping back in time to the years prior to perestroika and glasnost.