Shabo, Odesa Oblast

Shabo (Ukrainian: Шабо; Romanian: Șaba-Târg or Șaba) is a selo of Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi Raion, Odesa Oblast, Ukraine, situated at the Dniester Liman, some 7 km downstream of Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi. It hosts the administration of Shabo rural hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine.[1]

Shabo
Шабо (Ukrainian)
Șaba-Târg (Romanian)
Village
275 px
St. Nicholas Church
Shabo is located in Odesa Oblast
Shabo
Shabo
Shabo is located in Ukraine
Shabo
Shabo
Coordinates: 46°8′N 30°23′E
Country Ukraine
Oblast Odesa Oblast
Raion Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi Raion
HromadaShabo rural hromada
Population
 • Total7,100
Time zoneUTC+2 (EET (Kyiv))
 • Summer (DST)UTC+3 (EEST)

The Tatar village was established ca. 1500, called Acha-abag "the lower vineyards" (attested 1788). The name was subsequently simplified to Shabag and finally to Shaba / Shabo. After the conquest of Bessarabia by the Russian Empire, the region suffered a population drain to the Ottoman Empire. Shabo in 1812 had been deserted by all but three or four families. Alexander I decided to re-populate the region, in 1822 inviting Swiss settlers of Vaud to cultivate the vineyards of Shabo. The descendants of these settlers inhabit Shabo to the present day, and Shabo wine remains famous for its quality.

  • Swiss Graveyard in Shabo.
    Swiss Graveyard in Shabo.
  • Frédéric-César de la Harpe, Swiss teacher of Alexander I.
    Frédéric-César de la Harpe, Swiss teacher of Alexander I.

See also

References

Notes
  1. "Шабовская громада" (in Russian). Портал об'єднаних громад України.

Sources
  • Charles Upson Clark, Bessarabia: Russia and Roumania on the Black Sea (1927), chapter 8.
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