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Bessarabia (Romanian: Basarabia; Russian: Бессарабия Bessarabiya, Ukrainian: Бессарабія Bessarabiya) is a historical term for the geographic region in Eastern Europe bounded by the Dniester River on the east and the Prut River on the west.
In the aftermath of the Russo-Turkish War, 1806-1812, and ensuing Peace of Bucharest, the eastern portion of the Principality of Moldavia, an Ottoman vassal, was ceded to Imperial Russia and designated "Bessarabia". While this eastern part became the Governorate of Bessarabia, the western part of Moldavia united, in 1859, with Wallachia in what would become the Kingdom of Romania. For a short period between 1856 and 1878, two of the nine traditional counties of Bessarabia were also part of Moldavia and then Romania.
Three months after declaring its independence from Russia, in 1918, as the Moldavian Democratic Republic (shortly before the end of World War I); it united with the Kingdom of Romania. In 1940, Bessarabia was occupied by the USSR in accordance with the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact with Nazi Germany. Subsequently, Romania joined the Axis Powers and recaptured it in 1941 and lost again in 1944. In 1947, the Soviet-Romanian border set along the Prut River was internationally recognised by the Paris Treaty that ended World War II. The core part of Bessarabia was joined with parts of the Moldavian ASSR (Transnistria) to form the Moldavian SSR. At the same time, smaller parts of Bessarabia, in the south (two traditional counties; Budjak) and north (half of one county), were transferred to the Ukrainian SSR.
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Cession of Bessarabia, North of Bucovina and Herta Region, 26.06. - 28.06.1940
Bessarabia
Soviet deportations - Bessarabia. Documentary (1940 Soviet invasion) Gulag
DE BESSARABIA A ENTRE RIOS
My trip to the Republic of Moldova ( Bessarabia )
Andre Rieu Plays: "The Butcher of Bessarabia" by The Crooked Fiddle Band
Ariel Horowitz | Roxanna Panufnik | Hora Bessarabia | 2016 Menuhin International Violin Comp
Mishka Ziganoff - Bessarabia Doina (classic klezmer accordion)
BESSARABIA 1941-Romania re-take territories lost to the Soviets.
Check yourself into the river
Check yourself into a dream
Check yourself into a hell hole
Where nobody else has been
Check yourself into a free fall
Hide away behind the scene
Check yourself into a nightmare
Where no one can hear you scream
Chorus:
Passer by pass me by to love you still
to love you still
to love you
Passer by pass me by to love you still
to love you still
to love you
This is something to remember when I pass you on the
street
I just hoped you would discover it was me you're meant
to meet
Don't know what started all the meltdowns
When the glasses came unstuck
Those moments still remind me
Could it be beginners luck
Chorus
Never meant like stranger ships in the night
Never found the danger come find the light
This is not the start but this ain't the end
This is not the start but this ain't the end
Again