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Karakurt, Ukraine
Karakurt (; ; , also known as ''Karakurti''; ) is a village located in the Bolhrad Raion in the southwestern part of the Ukrainian Odesa Oblast with a population of approximately 2405 inhabitants (as of 2021). History Karakurt was founded in 1811 by Albanians in Ukraine, Albanians from Dobruja in the Bessarabia Governorate of the Russian Empire. After losing the Crimean War, the area including Cahul, Bolhrad, and Izmail, where Karakurt is located, was transferred to the Moldavia, Principality of Moldavia as Southern Bessarabia in 1856, only to fall back to the Russian Empire after the Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878), Russo-Ottoman War in 1878, a part of which it remained until 1917. During the chaos of the October Revolution, Russia lost Bessarabia, which declared itself independent as the Moldavian Democratic Republic in 1917 and Union of Bessarabia with Romania, voluntarily joined the Kingdom of Romania in the same year. After the Soviet Union Soviet occupation of Bessarabia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Village
A village is a human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand. Although villages are often located in rural areas, the term urban village is also applied to certain urban neighborhoods. Villages are normally permanent, with fixed dwellings; however, transient villages can occur. Further, the dwellings of a village are fairly close to one another, not scattered broadly over the landscape, as a dispersed settlement. In the past, villages were a usual form of community for societies that practice subsistence agriculture and also for some non-agricultural societies. In Great Britain, a hamlet earned the right to be called a village when it built a church.-4; we might wonder whether there's a point at which it's appropriate to talk of the beginnings of French, that is, when it wa ... ''village'', from Latin ''villāticus'', ultimately from Latin ''villa'' (English ''vi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
