Sfatul Țării

"Council of the Country"

Sfatul Țării
Type
Type
Leadership
Seats150
Elections
Last election
1917
Meeting place
Sfatul Țării Palace, Chișinău

Sfatul Țării ("Council of the Country"; Romanian pronunciation: [ˈsfatul ˈt͡sərij]) was a council of political, public, cultural, and professional organizations in the Governorate of Bessarabia in Tsarist Russia. This became a legislative body which established the Moldavian Democratic Republic as part of the Russian Federative Republic in December 1917. and then union with Romania in April [O.S. March] 1918.