Bashenars
Bashenars referred to colonists in the Bessarabian estates at the time they belonged to Russia in the 19th century , "mostly Serbian or Bulgarian settlers from Turkey ". In the class order they were among the townspeople and above the Skutelniken .
Individual evidence
- Heinrich Karl Wilhelm Berghaus : Annals of geography, ethnology and national studies. Volume 12, Grass, Barth & Company, 1841, p. 324 → online