Coșnița is a commune located in

Dubăsari District The Dubăsari District () is a Administrative divisions of Moldova, district in the east of Moldova, with the administrative center at Cocieri. As of January 1, 2011, its population was 35,200. This does not include the 715 people that live in th ...

of the

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, on the eastern bank of the River Dniester. It consists of two villages, ''Coșnița'' and ''Pohrebea'' (; , ''Pogrebya''). During the 1992

War of Transnistria The Transnistria War (; ) was an armed conflict that broke out on 2 November 1990 in Dubăsari between pro-Transnistria (Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic, PMR) forces, including the Transnistrian Republican Guard, militia and neo- Cossack un ...

, the commune was the center of some of the heaviest fighting between the local inhabitants and the government of the Republic of Moldova on one side, and the secessionist government of

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and the Russian 14th Army, on the other. As a legacy of that war, Pogrebea today hosts one of the largest areas of unremoved

landmines A land mine, or landmine, is an explosive weapon often concealed under or camouflaged on the ground, and designed to destroy or disable enemy targets as they pass over or near it. Land mines are divided into two types: anti-tank mines, whic ...

in the regio

Population

According to the 2004 Moldovan Census,Official results of 2004 Moldovan census
the commune had a population of 5,699 people, of which Coșnița 4,996, and Pohrebea 703. Of these, 5,524 (4,829 in Coșnița, and 695 in Pohrebea) were ethnic Moldavians, 167 (160 in Coșnița, and 7 in Pohrebea) were ethnic minorities, and 9 other/undeclared.

Etymology

In Romanian, ''pogrebă'' means 'basement' and ''-ea'' is a definite suffix; thus ''Pohrebea'' means 'the basement', and ''Coșnița'' is derived from the Bulgarian word for 'basket': кошница, ''koshnitsa''.

Notable people

* Petru Soltan (1931-2016), Moldavian mathematician *

Yosef Baratz Yosef Baratz (; 8 May 1890 – 14 December 1968) was a Zionist activist and Israeli politician. Biography Born in Coșnița, a village in Kherson Governorate in the Russian Empire (today in the Dubăsari District of Moldova), Baratz was educate ...

(1890-1968), Zionist activist and Israeli politician

References

Communes of Dubăsari District Populated places on the Dniester Tiraspolsky Uyezd {{Dubăsari-geo-stub

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