Tiraspol Agreement

It fell under the rule of Gheorghe Alexianu, under immediate subordination of Ion Antonescu,[1] the Conducător (leader) of Romania.

[2] It was signed during World War II, while the Axis invasion of the Soviet Union was taking place.

[1] The agreement allowed full Romanian control over the territory between the Dniester and Southern Bug rivers, with the exception of the city of Odesa.

[3] Afterwards, Transnistria became the destination of many Jews from the recently recovered Romanian regions of Northern Bukovina and Bessarabia.

Antonescu planned to colonize Transnistria with Romanian settlers once the invasion of the Soviet Union and the extermination of the Jewish and Romani population in the region was completed to formally annex it.