Showing posts with the label Moldova

Moldova’s Underground Wine City

Sep 6, 2018

The tiny landlocked country of Moldova in Eastern Europe is one of Europe’s poorest. “The roads are a bone-shaking ordeal. Horses haul carts...

Transnistria, The Country That Doesn’t Exist

May 21, 2018

After the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1990, a thin sliver of land on Moldova’s eastern border with Ukraine broke apart from its parent c...

Struve Geodetic Arc: The 2,820 Km Line That Produced The First Accurate Measurement of The Earth’s Size

Oct 21, 2016

From the northern coast of Norway to the southern coast of Ukraine runs a chain of survey triangulation points that together forms the Struv...