Shabo (Ukrainian: Шабо; Romanian: Șaba-Târg or Șaba) is a selo of Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi Raion, Odesa Oblast, Ukraine, situated at the Dniester Liman, some 7 km downstream of Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi. It hosts the administration of Shabo rural hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine.[1]
Shabo
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Village | |
 St. Nicholas Church | |
  Shabo  Shabo | |
| Coordinates: 46°8′N 30°23′E / 46.133°N 30.383°E | |
| Country |  Ukraine |
| Oblast |  Odesa Oblast |
| Raion |  Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi Raion |
| Hromada | Shabo rural hromada |
| Population | |
| • Total | 7,100 |
| Time zone | UTC+2 (EET (Kyiv)) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+3 (EEST) |
History edit
A Tatar village was established c. 1500, called Acha-abag "the lower vineyards" (attested 1788). The name was subsequently simplified to Shabag and finally to Shaba / Shabo. After the conquest of Bessarabia by the Russian Empire and its annexation by Russia in 1812, the region suffered a population drain to the Ottoman Empire. Shabo in 1812 had been deserted by all but three or four families. Emperor Alexander I decided to re-populate the region, in 1822 inviting Swiss settlers from Vaud, led by Louis-Vincent Tardent, to cultivate vineyards at Shabo. The descendants of these settlers inhabit Shabo to the present day,[citation needed] and Shabo wine remains famous for its quality.[citation needed]
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 (present-day Dnipriany).[2] Osnovy eventually merged into Dnipriany in 1957.[3]
Gallery edit
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Swiss Graveyard in Shabo. -
Frédéric-César de la Harpe, Swiss teacher of Alexander I.
See also edit
References edit
Notes edit
- ^ "Шабовская громада" (in Russian). Портал об'єднаних громад України.
- ^ "Дніпряни, Нова Каховка, Херсонська область". Історія міст і сіл Української РСР (in Ukrainian).
- ^ "Дніпряни, Нова Каховка, Херсонська область (продовження)". Історія міст і сіл Української РСР (in Ukrainian).
Sources edit
- Charles Upson Clark, Bessarabia: Russia and Roumania on the Black Sea (1927), chapter 8.
External links edit
- (in French) Șaba - un avanpost européen sur le Nistre by Ioan Papa
- (in Russian) Шабо
- (in Ukrainian) Торговая марка «Шабо» ("Shabo" wine)