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The Bessarabia Germans are an ethnic group and part of the Black Sea Germans, who lived in Bessarabia (today part of Moldova and Ukraine) between 1814 and 1940. Between 1814 and 1842, they immigrated from the germans areas Württemberg and Prussia to the Russian government of Bessarabia at the Black Sea. In their history of 125 years, the Bessarabia Germans inhabited rural parts of the country. Until their moving to the German Empire (Molotov-Ribbentrop_Pact), they were a minority consisting of 93.000 people who made up some 3% of the population. Image File history File links 359px-Bessarabisches_Bauernpaar. ... Image File history File links 359px-Bessarabisches_Bauernpaar. ... The Black Sea Germans (German: Schwarzmeerdeutsche) are ethnic Germans who left their homeland in the 18th and 19th centuries, and settled in territories of the northern bank of the Black Sea, mostly in southern Russia. ... 1927 map of Bessarabia from Charles Upson Clarks book Bessarabia or Bessarabiya (Basarabia in Romanian, Besarabya in Turkish) was the name by which the Imperial Russia designated the eastern part of the principality of Moldavia ceded by the Ottoman Empire to Russia in the aftermath of the Russo-Turkish... 1814 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... 1940 (MCMXL) was a leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1940 calendar). ... Württemberg (often spelled Wurttemberg in English) refers to an area and a former state in Swabia, a region in south-western Germany. ... Flag of Prussia (1894 - 1918) The Kingdom of Prussia existed from 1701 until 1918, and from 1871 was the leading kingdom of the German Empire, comprising in its last form almost two-thirds of the area of the Empire. ... Map of the Black Sea. ... Flag of the German Empire, 1871–1918: black-white-red The German Empire is the name conventionally given in English to the German state from the time of the proclamation of Wilhelm I of Prussia as German Emperor (January 18, 1871) to the abdication of Wilhelm II (November 9, 1918). ... Molotov signs the German-Soviet non-aggression pact. ...

The most prominent person with Bessarabian ancestry is German President Horst Köhler. Until the moving in 1940, his parents lived in the German colony Ryshkanovka in Northern Bessarabia, being moved to Poland, which was by that time occupied by Germany, where Köhler was born. The President of Germany (German: Bundespräsident) is Germanys head of state. ... Horst Köhler ( â–¶(?), born 22 February 1943) is the current President of Germany. ...

The now gone Bessarabia

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Coat of Arms

The coat of arms of the Bessarabia Germans (created after the Second World War) symbolizes the homeland at the Black Sea, left at 1940. The coat of arms consists of a shield as the main component of the heraldic emblem. On four divisions, the crest symbolizes the country's colors and other properties. A modern coat of arms is derived from the medi val practice of painting designs onto the shield and outer clothing of knights to enable them to be identified in battle, and later in tournaments. ... Mushroom cloud from the nuclear explosion over Nagasaki rising 18 km into the air. ... Heraldry is the science and art of designing, displaying, describing and recording coats of arms and badges, as well as the formal ceremonies and laws that regulate the use and inheritance of arms. ...

The coat of arms of the Bessarabia Germans

• Azure symbolizes the blue sky over the steppe.
• Or stands for the golden fields.
• Gules is taken out of the Romanian flag - the state whose citizens the Bessarabia Germans were.
• The well symbolizes the importance of water.
• The cross is a symbol for the Church and religion.
• The horse symbolizes the dearest friend of the farmer.

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Anthem

The Bessarabian anthem Bessarabisches Heimatleid was created in 1922 by Albert Mauch, the director of the Werner-Seminar, a German university in Sarata. An anthem is a choral composition to an English religious text sung in church services. ... 1922 (MCMXXII) was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... Representation of a university class, 1350s. ... Sarata (Romanian: Sărata) is a town in south-western Ukraine, in the region of Bugeac (south-western Odessa Oblast). ...