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BessarabiaFormer region in southeastern Europe, bordering on the Black Sea and standing between the Prut and Dniester rivers. Its capital was at Kishinev. The region is now divided between the states of Moldova and Ukraine. Bessarabia takes its name from the Basarabs, a Moldavian princely dynasty that ruled the territory in the Middle Ages. It came under the control of the Ottoman Empire from 1504. Bessarabia was annexed by Russia after the Russo-Turkish War of 1812, but broke away at the Russian Revolution to join Romania. Russia never recognized this secession in the peace treaties following World War I, and the USSR reoccupied Bessarabia in 1940, dividing it between the Moldavian and Ukrainian Soviet republics. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| One of their strongest efforts to stop anti-Semitic violence - Grunberger labels it an ``iconic item'' - is a petition from American Jews to Russia's Czar Nicholas II protesting the murderous 1903 Kishinev pogrom in Bessarabia. But my great-grandmother wasn't just any woman: in the old country, Yente Pachata Friedman was the only woman on the council of Jewish elders in her village of Yednitz, Bessarabia (which is now Moldova). He arranged for several deaconesses to work abroad, not only in North America but also in Russia, Estonia, and Bessarabia. |
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