Bessarabia Germans
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The Bessarabia Germans are a German ethnic group who lived in Bessarabia between 1814 and 1940.
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Main settlement areas of the 150 German colonies in Bessarabia
Klöstitz or Vesela Dolyna, Odesa Oblast as it is currently known, an example of a former typical rural Bessarabian German settlement
A group of Bessarabian Germans, circa 1935
Germans of Romania
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The Germans of Romania represent one of the most significant historical ethnic minorities of Romania from the modern period onwards.
Bessarabia Germans
…Romanian: Germani basarabeni; Ukrainian: Бессарабські німці, romanized: Bessarabs'ki nimtsi) are a German ethnic group (formerly part of the Germans of Romania) who lived in Bessarabia (today part of the Republic of Moldova and south-western Ukraine) between 1814 and 1940. From 1814 to 1842, 9,000 of them…
Evangelical Lutheran medieval fortified church in Axente Sever (German: Frauendorf) in Sibiu County (German: Kreis Hermannstadt)
Nemșa (German: Nimesch), a traditional Transylvanian Saxon village pertaining to the larger commune of Moșna (German: Meschen)
Biertan (German: Birthälm), one of the most important and imposing Evangelical Lutheran fortified churches in Transylvania
Râșnov (German: Rosenau), a noteworthy example of a well fortified Transylvanian Saxon town