Jedisan
Jedisan ( Ukrainian Єдисан Jedyssan , Romanian Edisan ) is a historical region in Eastern Europe . Most of it is now in Ukraine (parts of Odessa Oblast and Mykolaiv Oblast ) and a small part in the west belongs to Transnistria . The region is delimited to the east by the Southern Bug , to the west by the Dniester , to the north by Podolia and to the south by the Black Sea .
history
Jedisan was under the influence of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania from the 14th century and of the Khanate of Crimea from the 15th century . In 1526 Sultan Suleyman I added the region to his Ottoman Empire as part of the Eyâlet Silistria .
After the Peace of Jassy in 1792, the Russian Empire annexed the area under the Kherson Governorate . A massive colonization of Russians and Ukrainians followed . Even Greeks , Jews and Moldavians from neighboring Moldavia settled in Yedisan. The region experienced an economic and cultural boom, Odessa was developed into the largest Russian Black Sea port.
Between 1917 and 1920 Jedisan was part of the independent Ukraine , then part of the Soviet Union within the Ukrainian Soviet Republic . Four years later, the Moldavian ASSR was set up in the western part , which also included parts of the historical Podolia region .
In 1940, after the occupation of Bessarabia by the Soviet Union, the Moldavian ASSR was dissolved and divided between the Moldovan Soviet Republic and the Ukrainian Soviet Republic. From 1941 to 1944 Jedisan was part of a Transnistria ruled by Romania . The area was recaptured from the Soviet Union during World War II . Jedisan has been part of Ukraine or Transnistria since 1991.