Editing Moldavia (section)

===Fragmentation===
{{See also|Treaty of Küçük Kaynarca|Treaty of Bucharest (1812)}}
[[File:Rom1793-1812.png|thumb|The Principality of Moldavia, 1793–1812, highlighted in orange]]

In 1775, Moldavia lost to the [[Habsburg monarchy|Habsburg Empire]] its northwestern part, which became known as [[Bukovina]]. For Moldavia, it meant both an important territorial loss and a major blow to the cattle trade, as the region stood on the trade route to Central Europe.

The [[Treaty of Jassy]] in 1792 forced the Ottoman Empire to cede [[Yedisan]] to the Russian Empire, which made Russian presence much more notable, given that the Empire acquired a common border with Moldavia. The first effect of this was the cession of the eastern half of Moldavia (renamed as [[Bessarabia]]) to the Russian Empire in 1812.