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The Bessarabia Governorate was a province of the Russian Empire, with its administrative centre in Kishinev . It consisted of an area of 45,632.42 square kilometres (17,618.78 sq mi) and a population of 1,935,412 inhabitants.
The newly acquired territories were organised as the Bessarabia Governorate of the Russian Empire, adopting a name previously used for the southern plains between the Dniester and the Danube rivers.
Apr 9, 2018 · Located in Tsarist Russia’s fertile Bessarabia region, turn-of-the-century Kishinev was home to about 55,000 Jews among a population of 280,000. Today, the city is called Chisinau, and is the...
The Kishinev pogrom or Kishinev massacre was an anti-Jewish riot that took place in Kishinev (modern Chișinău, Moldova), then the capital of the Bessarabia Governorate in the Russian Empire, on 19–21 April [O.S. 6–8 April] 1903.
History of Jews in Kishinev in Russian Empire period, from 1812-1918 • Kishinev – main town of the Bessarabia oblast, province • Kishinev – part of the pale
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Apr 9, 2009 · The pogrom that transformed 20th century Jewry. On April 8, 1903 — Easter Sunday — a mild disturbance against local Jews rattled Kishinev, a sleepy city on the southwestern border of imperial Russia.
Initially, the Russian government actively recruited Central and Western Europeans, hoping their industriousness would enhance the productivity of the local populace. Beginning in 1814, many German families migrated to Bessarabia, mostly from Lutheran areas in Prussia, Wtirttemberg, and German Poland.
