Shabo ( uk, Шабо; ro, Șaba-Târg or ) is a selo of Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi Raion, Odesa Oblast, Ukraine, situated at the Dniester Liman, some 7 km downstream of

Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi ( uk, Бі́лгород-Дністро́вський, Bílhorod-Dnistróvskyy, ; ro, Cetatea Albă), historically known as Akkerman ( tr, Akkerman) or under different names, is a city, municipality and port situated on ...

. It hosts the administration of

Shabo rural hromada Shabo may refer to: *Shabo language; *Shabo, Odesa Oblast Shabo ( uk, Шабо, ro, Şaba, population 7,100) is a selo of the Odesa Oblast, Ukraine, situated at the Dniester Liman, some 7 km downstream of Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi. It hosts t ...

, one of the

hromada A hromada ( uk, територіальна громада, lit=territorial community, translit=terytorialna hromada) is a basic unit of administrative division in Ukraine, similar to a municipality. It was established by the Government of Ukra ...

s of Ukraine.

History

The Tatar village was established ca. 1500, called ' "the lower vineyards" (attested 1788). The name was subsequently simplified to ''Shabag'' and finally to ''Shaba / Shabo''. After the conquest of

Bessarabia Bessarabia (; Gagauz: ''Besarabiya''; Romanian: ''Basarabia''; Ukrainian: ''Бессара́бія'') is a historical region in Eastern Europe, bounded by the Dniester river on the east and the Prut river on the west. About two thirds of Be ...

by the Russian Empire, the region suffered a population drain to the Ottoman Empire. Shabo in 1812 had been deserted by all but three or four families. Alexander I decided to re-populate the region, in 1822 inviting Swiss settlers of Vaud to cultivate the vineyards of Shabo. The descendants of these settlers inhabit Shabo to the present day, and Shabo wine remains famous for its quality. In 1889, the village Osnovy was founded in what is now southern Ukraine by settlers from Shabo. Osnovy became a significant grape plantation and winemaking site, where the wine was exported through the port of Brytany (now

Dnipriany Dnipriany ( uk, Дніпряни, russian: Днепряны, Dnepryany), known as Brytany ( uk, Британи) before 1946, is a Populated places in Ukraine#Rural settlements, rural settlement in Kakhovka Raion, Kherson Oblast, southern Ukraine. ...

). Osnovy was eventually merged into Dnipriany in 1957.

Gallery

file:Shabo_Swiss_Graveyard.jpg, Swiss Graveyard in Shabo. file: FC_Laharpe.jpg, Frédéric-César de la Harpe, Swiss teacher of Alexander I.

References

Notes

Sources

*Charles Upson Clark, ''Bessarabia: Russia and Roumania on the Black Sea'' (1927)
chapter 8

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