Shabo
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Village | |
Coordinates: 46°8′N 30°23′E / 46.133°N 30.383°E | |
Country | Ukraine |
Oblast | Odesa Oblast |
Raion | Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi Raion |
Hromada | Shabo rural hromada |
Population | |
• Total | 7,100 |
Time zone | UTC+2 (EET (Kyiv)) |
• Summer ( DST) | UTC+3 (EEST) |
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]
A Tatar village was established c. 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 and its annexation by Russia in 1812, the region suffered a population drain to the Ottoman Empire. Shabo in 1812 had been deserted by all but three or four families. Emperor Alexander I decided to re-populate the region, in 1822 inviting Swiss settlers from Vaud, led by Louis-Vincent Tardent , to cultivate vineyards at Shabo. The descendants of these settlers inhabit Shabo to the present day,[ citation needed] and Shabo wine remains famous for its quality.[ citation needed]
In 1889, the village Osnovy was founded in what is now southern Ukraine by settlers from Shabo. Osnovy became a significant grape plantation and winemaking site, where the wine was exported through the port of Brytany (present-day Dnipriany). [2] Osnovy eventually merged into Dnipriany in 1957. [3]