The land inbetween the Prut and Nister river. For most of it's history, it was inhabited by Romanians, and still mostly true today, but Southern Bessarabia Is majority Ukrainian.
X:What lands did Greater Romania have?
Y: The lands of current Romania, Bessarabia, northern Bucovina, and southern Dobrogea.
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. PenguinBooks,1992. p. 38)