Talk:History of Transnistria to 1792

why a quote?

Do we really need to quote so extensively from a numismatic site?

Many Romanians lived even farther east in the steppe lands of Transnistria (Land over Nistru), scattered (mainly) in small rural settlements. Transnistria was in the past an arid, underpopulated region that began to be colonized in the Middle Ages (after 1500, probably, but possibly even earlier) by Moldavians that crossed the Nistru river in search of free land and by some Tartars, its borders not being delimited as for a distinctive entity, a part of something. The eastern frontier was for Moldavia rather theoretical than effective up to the 19th century.In the east of river Nistru the Romanian life is mentioned all over the Middle Age.The oldest attested Moldavian possession over the Dniester River was the Lerici castle (at the entrance inside Dnieper's estuary, where the fortress Ochakov was later on to be built), captured by some Moldavian pirates from the Genoese in the times of voivod Petru Aron (in 1455).''<ref>[http://romaniancoins.org/transnistria.html Moldavians in middleages Transnistria]</ref>

Let's put the valuable information from this quote into the text of the article and get rid of the quote. Eventually we will have to replace this source with more scholarly ones per WP:RS. Alæxis_¿question? 20:45, 1 September 2011 (UTC)

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