Basarabeasca
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Basarabeasca ( rum. ) Бессарабка ( russ. ) |
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 Moldova
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| Administrative unit : | Basarabeasca district | ||
| Founded : | 1856 | ||
| Coordinates : | 46 ° 20 ′ N , 28 ° 58 ′ E | ||
| Residents : | 12,500 | ||
| Telephone code : | +373 297 | ||
| Postal code : | MD-6701 | ||
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Basarabeasca ( Russian Bessarabka / Бессарабка - until 1957 Romanowka / Романовка) is a town on the Cogâlnic River in the Republic of Moldova, right on the border with Ukraine, about 100 kilometers south of the capital Chișinău .
The city is the capital of the Moldovan Rajons Basarabeasca and is a local center of the region.
history
The place was founded in 1846 as a Jewish colony in Bessarabia , then part of the Russian Empire , under the original name Romanovka (Романовка) in honor of the Russian tsarist dynasty of the Romanovs . In 1859 there were 86 Jewish families living in the village who cultivated 1750 hectares of arable land. After the abolition of Jewish property in 1866, many farmers lost their livelihoods, some turned to viticulture, trade and handicrafts. To alleviate the great need, a weekly market was introduced from 1876. In 1897 the place had 1625 inhabitants of which 71% were Jews, the rest was divided into Russians, Romanians and Germans. As early as 1877, a railway station on the Bender – Galați railway line was opened east of the village ; it was named Bessarabka (based on the location in Bessarabia).
In 1910 the first houses in the village received a telephone connection, on December 5, 1912 a new synagogue was consecrated, in 1913 the place already had 1,741 inhabitants. After the end of the First World War, the place came like all of Bessarabia to the Kingdom of Romania and received the Romanized name Româneşti . In 1923 there were 690 houses in the village in which 1520 men and 1597 women live. The railway connection to Akkerman (today Bilhorod-Dnistrowskyj) was built under Russian rule in 1916 , but this line has been interrupted again since 1997. In 1940 Bessarabia was annexed by the Soviet Union , but the area was recaptured by Greater Romania in 1941 . In 1944 it finally fell to the Soviet Union and became part of the Moldovan SSR .
On September 11, 1957 Romanowka was renamed Bessarabka, since 1990 the place is part of today's Republic of Moldova.
The largest employers in the village are the Moldavian Railways , which have a railway depot with a large workshop in the village.
Population numbers
| census | Population [1] |
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| 1989 | 14,500 |
| 2004 | 11,184 |
Personalities
- Inna Șupac (* 1984), Moldovan politician