Budjak or Budzhak is the southern part of Bessarabia, now part of the Odessa Oblast (province) of Ukraine. It is a multiethnic region lying along the Black Sea between the Danube and Dniester rivers and below Moldova. Old map of Bessarabia 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 annexed by Russia in 1812. ... Odessa Oblast (Ukrainian: Одеська область, Odes’ka oblast’ or Одещина, Odeshchyna) is an oblast of south-western Ukraine. ... An ethnic group is a human population whose members identify with each other, usually on the basis of a presumed common genealogy or ancestry (Smith 1986). ... Map of the Black Sea. ... The Danube (German: Donau, Slovak: Dunaj, Hungarian: Duna, Slovenian: Donava, Croatian: Dunav, Serbian: Дунав/Dunav, Bulgarian: Дунав, Romanian: Dunăre, Ukrainian: , Latin: Danuvius, Turkish: Tuna) is Europes second-longest river (after the Volga). ... Length 1350 km Elevation of the source -  m Average discharge -  m³/s Area watershed 62,000  km² Origin  Ukraine Mouth  Black Sea Basin countries Ukraine, Moldova The river Dniester (Polish: Dniestr, Ukrainian: Дністер, Romanian: Nistru, Russian: Днестр, Latin: Tyras) is a river in Eastern Europe. ...

Name and geography

The area was originally called Bessarabia, while Budjak referred to smaller area of the interior steppe. The name Budjak was given during the Ottoman rule (1484-1812) and derives from the Turkish word "bucak" meaning "corner" or "triangle" referring to the land between Akkerman (Bilhorod-Dnistrovs'kyi), Bender (Tighina), and Ismail (Izmayil). As Bessarabia came to apply to all of Moldavia east of the Prut River, the name Budjak expanded to cover the southern area that was ruled by the Ottoman Empire. Although the area remains separated from the Republic of Moldova that occupies the remainder of Bessarabia, the term is rarely used, replaced normally with Southern Bessarabia. In Ukrainian, Bulgarian, and Russian, Budjak is called Буджак [Budžak], it is Bugeac in Romanian, and Bucak in Turkish. In English, the area has various been termed Budjak, Budzhak, Bujak, Buchak, or even Budziac Tartary. Old map of Bessarabia 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 annexed by Russia in 1812. ... A steppe in Western Kazakhstan in early spring In physical geography, a steppe (Russian степь or step and pronounced in English as step) is a plain without trees (apart from those near rivers and lakes); it is similar to a prairie, although a prairie is generally considered as being dominated by... Imperial motto (Ottoman Turkish) Devlet-i Ebed-müddet (the Eternal State) The Ottoman Empire at the height of its power (1683) Official language Ottoman Turkish Capital Sogut (1299-1326), Bursa (1326-1365), Edirne (1365-1453), Ä°stanbul (1453-1922) Imperial anthem Ottoman imperial anthem Sovereigns Padishah of the Osmanli Dynasty... Events January 25 - Peter Arbues, chief of the Spanish Inquisition, is assassinated when he is praying in the cathedral at Saragossa, Spain July 6 - Portuguese sea captain Diogo Cão finds the mouth of Congo River December 5 - Pope Innocent VIII gives the inquisition a mission to hunt heretics and... 1812 was a leap year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi (Ukrainian: ; Romanian: Cetatea Albă; Turkish: Akkerman; Russian: , Belgorod-Dnestrovsky; Hungarian: Nyeszterfehérvár; Italian: Moncastro) is a city in southern Ukraine. ... Tighina or Bender (Russian: Бендеры) is a city in Transnistria, a breakaway region of Moldova. ... Izmail or Ismail (Ukrainian: ; Russian: ; Romanian: Ismail), is a town in south-western Ukraine, located near Danube delta in Odessa Oblast (province). ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into Principality of Moldavia. ... Length 953  km Elevation of the source -  m Average discharge -  m³/s Area watershed 27,500  km² Origin  Ukraine Mouth  Danube Basin countries Ukraine, Romania, Moldova The Prut, or Pruth river (Ukrainian: Прут) is 953 km long, originating in the Carpathian Mountains in Ukraine and flowing southeast to join the Danube... Imperial motto (Ottoman Turkish) Devlet-i Ebed-müddet (the Eternal State) The Ottoman Empire at the height of its power (1683) Official language Ottoman Turkish Capital Sogut (1299-1326), Bursa (1326-1365), Edirne (1365-1453), Ä°stanbul (1453-1922) Imperial anthem Ottoman imperial anthem Sovereigns Padishah of the Osmanli Dynasty... An exonym is a name for a place or people that is created by people outside of that place and is different from the name used in the native language. ...

History

In the antiquity, Budjak was inhabited by Dacians, Scythians, Celts, and, on the shores, by Greeks. Dacia, in ancient geography the land of the Daci, named by the ancient Greeks Getae, was a large district of Central Europe, bounded on the north by the Carpathians, on the south by the Danube, on the west by the Tisa, on the east by the Tyras or Nistru, now... Scythian warriors, drawn after figures on an electrum cup from the KulOba kurgan burial near Kerch. ... This article is about the European people. ...

From the AD 9th to the 12th centuries, the region was under the control of Kievan Rus' and Galicia-Volhynia. Genoese traders also build several fortresses on the Black Sea coast and on the Danube, while Nogai Tatars also inhabited this region before moving to Dobruja and Turkey. The territory was incorporated into the Principality of Moldavia in 1392 by Roman I, while previously it has been under Wallachian rule during the reign of Mircea the Elder, a prince from the House of Basarab. In 1484, Stephen the Great was forced to surrender the two main fortresses of Chilia (Kiliya) and Cetatea Albă (Bilhorod-Dnistrovs'kyi) to the Ottoman Empire. The rest of the region was ceded in 1538 following an Ottoman military campaign. Anno Domini (In the Year of the Lord), abbreviated as AD or A.D. defines an epoch based on the traditionally-reckoned year of the birth (or actually Incarnation) of Jesus of Nazareth. ... As a means of recording the passage of time the 9th century was that century that lasted from 801 to 900. ... (11th century - 12th century - 13th century - other centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 12th century was that century which lasted from 1101 to 1200. ... Map of the the extent of Kievan Rus through the 11th century. ... Halych-Volynia principality was the Ruthenian successor state of Kievan Rus on the territory of Rus menora (Rus propria) including the lands of Red Ruthenia, Black Ruthenia, and the remainder of southwestern Rus. This state also briefly controlled the region of Bessarabia and Moldavia. ... The Republic of Genoa, in full the Most Serene Republic of Genoa (known as the Ligurian Republic from 1798 to 1805) was an independent state in Liguria on the northwestern Italian coast from ca. ... Map of the Black Sea. ... The Danube (German: Donau, Slovak: Dunaj, Hungarian: Duna, Slovenian: Donava, Croatian: Dunav, Serbian: Дунав/Dunav, Bulgarian: Дунав, Romanian: Dunăre, Ukrainian: , Latin: Danuvius, Turkish: Tuna) is Europes second-longest river (after the Volga). ... Flag of the Nogai people The Nogais, also spelled Nogay, Noghai, and often called the Caucasian Mongols (Caucasian refers to their geographic position, in the Caucasus mountains, not to their ethnicity), are a Turkic people, and an important ethnic group in the Daghestan region who speak the Turkic Nogai language. ... Dobruja, or sometimes Dobrudja (Dobrogea in Romanian, Добруджа—transliterated Dobrudzha—in Bulgarian, Dobruca in Turkish), is the territory between the lower Danube river and the Black Sea, including the Danube Delta and the Romanian coast. ... It has been suggested that Moldavia (historical region) be merged into this article or section. ... Events December 16 - Emperor Go-Kameyama of Japan abdicates in favor of rival claimant Go-Komatsu, ending the nanboku-cho period of competing imperial courts James of Jülich is boiled alive for pretending to be a bishop and ordaining his own priests Korean founder of the Joseon Dynasty General... Roman I Roman I was a Prince of Moldavia: December 1391 - March 1392. ... Map of Romania with Wallachia in yellow. ... Mircea the Elder Wallachia under Mircea cel Bătrân, c. ... Below is the list of Wallachian rulers, since the first mentioned until the unification with Moldavia in 1859. ... Events January 25 - Peter Arbues, chief of the Spanish Inquisition, is assassinated when he is praying in the cathedral at Saragossa, Spain July 6 - Portuguese sea captain Diogo Cão finds the mouth of Congo River December 5 - Pope Innocent VIII gives the inquisition a mission to hunt heretics and... Stephen the Great (Romanian icon) Stephen III of Moldavia, also called Stephen MuÅŸat III (BorzeÅŸti, 1433 – Suceava, 1504-07-02) was a voivod (prince) of Moldova (1457-1504), who won renown in Europe for his long resistance against the Ottoman Empire. ... Kilia may refer to: Kilia, a town in Ukraine Chilia Veche, a town in Tulcea County, Romania Chilia branch, a distributary of the Danube. ... Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi (Ukrainian: ; Romanian: Cetatea Albă; Turkish: Akkerman; Russian: , Belgorod-Dnestrovsky; Hungarian: Nyeszterfehérvár; Italian: Moncastro) is a city in southern Ukraine. ... Imperial motto (Ottoman Turkish) Devlet-i Ebed-müddet (the Eternal State) The Ottoman Empire at the height of its power (1683) Official language Ottoman Turkish Capital Sogut (1299-1326), Bursa (1326-1365), Edirne (1365-1453), Ä°stanbul (1453-1922) Imperial anthem Ottoman imperial anthem Sovereigns Padishah of the Osmanli Dynasty... Events Treaty of Nagyvarad. ...

Under Ottoman rule, Budjak, along with Bender (Tighina), was unofficially called "Bessarabia", in honor of the Wallachian prince Basarab I, who previously explored the region. Officially however, the region was not a province by itself but was a part of Silistra (or Özi) Province (eyalet). The region was divided into two sanjaks, Kiliya and Akkerman (Bilhorod-Dnistrovs'kyi). Some time between 1504 and 1538, a sanjak of Bender and a sanjak of Budjak were added. Tighina or Bender (Russian: Бендеры) is a city in Transnistria, a breakaway region of Moldova. ... Old map of Bessarabia 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 annexed by Russia in 1812. ... Map of Romania with Wallachia in yellow. ... Posada Battle Basarab I was an early ruler of the principality of Wallachia, known as ÃŽntemeietorul (The Founder) (c. ... Silistra Province (Turkish: Silistre Eyaleti), sometimes called Özi Province was an eyalet of the Ottoman Empire along the Black Sea littoral and south bank of the Danube River in southeastern Europe. ... Vilâyet (also eyalet or pashaluk) was the Turkish name for the provinces of the Ottoman Empire. ... Sanjak and Sandjak (other variants: sinjaq, sanjaq) are the most common English transliterations of the Turkish word Sancak, which literally means banner. In Arabic the sanjaks were also called liwas. ... Kilia or Kiliya (Ukrainian: ; Russian: ; Romanian: Chilia) is a town in south-western Ukraine, located in the Danube Delta in Odessa Oblast (province). ... Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi (Ukrainian: ; Romanian: Cetatea Albă; Turkish: Akkerman; Russian: , Belgorod-Dnestrovsky; Hungarian: Nyeszterfehérvár; Italian: Moncastro) is a city in southern Ukraine. ... Tighina or Bender (Russian: Бендеры) is a city in Transnistria, a breakaway region of Moldova. ...

During the Napoleonic Era Budjak was overrun by Russia in the course of the Russo-Turkish War of 1806-1812 and Treaty of Bucharest, 1812 transferred Budjak and all of Moldavia east of the Prut River to Russia. With the Russian annexation, the name Bessarabia began to be applied not only to the original southern region but to the entire eastern half of historical Moldavia, while Budjak was applied to southern Bessarabia. The Napoleonic Era is a period in the History of France. ... Russo-Turkish War, 1806-1812 was one of the several wars fought between Imperial Russia and Ottoman Empire War broke out in 1806, when Turkey deposed the russophile governors of its vassal states Moldavia and Walachia. ... Treaty of Bucharest of 1812 was signed on 28 May 1812 by the Ottoman Empire and the Russian Empire, at the end of the Russian-Turkish war (1806-1812). ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into Principality of Moldavia. ... Length 953  km Elevation of the source -  m Average discharge -  m³/s Area watershed 27,500  km² Origin  Ukraine Mouth  Danube Basin countries Ukraine, Romania, Moldova The Prut, or Pruth river (Ukrainian: Прут) is 953 km long, originating in the Carpathian Mountains in Ukraine and flowing southeast to join the Danube... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into Principality of Moldavia. ...

With Russia's defeat in the Crimean War in 1856, a part of southern Bessarabia including Budjak was ceded to the Ottoman vassal state of Moldavia and was joined to the new Principality of Romania upon Moldavia's union with Wallachia in 1862. Following Russo-Turkish War of 1877-78, the Treaty of San Stefano and the Treaty of Berlin recognized the full independence of the new Kingdom of Romania but transferred Budjak back to Russia. Combatants United Kingdom, France, Ottoman Empire, Sardinia Imperial Russia Strength 250,000 British 400,000 French 10,000 Sardinian 1,200,000 Russian Casualties 17,500 British 30,000 French 2,050 Sardinian killed and wounded 256,000 killed and wounded The Crimean War lasted from 28 March 1854 until... 1856 was a leap year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... A puppet state is a state whose government, though notionally of the same culture as the governed people - owes its existence (or other major debt) to being installed, supported or controlled by a more powerful entity, typically a foreign power. ... It has been suggested that Moldavia (historical region) be merged into this article or section. ... Prince Albert of Monaco on the left represents a principality where he wields administrative authority. ... 1862 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... Plevna Monument near the walls of Kitai-gorod. ... Borders of Bulgaria according to the Treaty of San Stefano of March 3rd, 1878 The Treaty of San Stefano was a treaty between Russia and the Ottoman Empire at the conclusion of the Russo-Turkish War, 1877-78. ... The Treaty of Berlin was the final Act of the Congress of Berlin (June 13-July 13, 1878), by which the United Kingdom, Austria-Hungary, France, Germany, Italy, Russia and the Ottoman government under Sultan Hamid revised the Treaty of San Stefano signed on March 3 of the same year. ... From 1859 to 1877, Romania evolved from a personal union of two vassal principalities (Moldavia and Wallachia) under a single prince to a full-fledged independent kingdom with a Hohenzollern monarchy. ...

After World War I, Budjak, along with all of Bessarabia was joined with Romania and was administered as part of the Ismail and Cetatea Albă counties (judeţ). Combatants Allies: • Serbia, • Russia, • France, • Romania, • Belgium, • British Empire and Dominions, • United States, • Italy, • ...and others Central Powers: • Germany, • Austria-Hungary, • Ottoman Empire, • Bulgaria Casualties 5 million military, 3 million civilian (full list) 3 million military, 3 million civilian (full list) World War I, also known as the First World... Izmail or Ismail (Ukrainian: ; Russian: ; Romanian: Ismail), is a town in south-western Ukraine, located near Danube delta in Odessa Oblast (province). ... Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi (Ukrainian: ; Romanian: Cetatea Albă; Turkish: Akkerman; Russian: , Belgorod-Dnestrovsky; Hungarian: Nyeszterfehérvár; Italian: Moncastro) is a city in southern Ukraine. ... A judeÅ£ is an administrative division in Romania and was also used for some time in Moldova. ...

In 1939, a secret appendix to the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact assigned Bessarabia to the Soviet Union’s sphere of influence and, in June 1940, the Soviets issued an ultimatum demanding the transfer of Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina. Romania acquiesced and the area was annexed with central and northern Bessarabia forming the center of the new Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic but with Budjak ceded to the Ukrainian SSR. Upon Nazi Germany’s declaration of war on the Soviet Union in June 1941, the Romanians sided with the Axis Powers and occupied the Soviet territory including Budjak, which they re-annexed. The territories were regained by the Soviets in 1944 and, despite Romania joining the Allies in August 1944, were annexed by the Soviets with the 1940 political configuration. 1939 (MCMXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... The Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, also known as the Hitler-Stalin Pact or Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact or Nazi-Soviet Pact and formally known as the Treaty of Nonaggression between Germany and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, was in theory a non-aggression treaty between the German Third Reich and the... A sphere of influence (or SOI) is an area or region over which an organization or state exerts some kind of indirect cultural, economic, military or political power. ... 1940 (MCMXL) was a leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1940 calendar). ... The June 1940 Soviet Ultimatum was issued by the Soviet Union to Romania, regarding the Soviet territorial requests. ... Bukovina (Bucovina in Romanian; Буковина, Bukovyna in Ukrainian; Buchenland or Bukowina in German; Bukowina in Polish), on the slopes of the Carpathian Mountains, comprises an historic province now split between Romania and Ukraine. ... State motto: Пролетарь дин тоате цэриле, униць-вэ! Official language None. ... State motto: Пролетарі всіх країн, єднайтеся! Official language None. ... Nazi Germany, or the Third Reich, commonly refers to Germany in the years 1933–1945, when it was under the firm control of the totalitarian and fascist ideology of the Nazi Party, with the Führer Adolf Hitler as dictator. ... For the movie, see 1941 (film) 1941 (MCMXLI) was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1941 calendar). ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... 1944 (MCMXLIV) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... The group of countries known as the Allies of World War II came together, to fight the Axis Powers, as World War II unfolded and progressed. ...

With the fall of the Soviet Union, Budjak is now a part of the newly-independent Ukraine.

Ethnic groups and demographics

The main ethnic groups in Budjak today are Ukrainians, Bulgarians, Russians, and Romanians and the region has historically been home to many ethnicities and religious groups. Muslim, Turkic-speaking Nogai Tatars inhabited Ottoman Budjak until the 18th centuries but many were forced to abandon the region by Russia and resettled to the east. Flag of the Nogai people The Nogais, also spelled Nogay, Noghai, and often called the Caucasian Mongols (Caucasian refers to their geographic position, in the Caucasus mountains, not to their ethnicity), are a Turkic people, and an important ethnic group in the Daghestan region who speak the Turkic Nogai language. ... (17th century - 18th century - 19th century - more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 18th century refers to the century that lasted from 1701 through 1800. ...

Like Moldova, Budjak is home to a small minority of Gagauzes, Orthodox Christian Turkic peoples who arrived from the Balkans in the late 18th and early 19th centuries and settled the area vacated by the Nogais. The Gagauz are a Turkic people minority of southern Moldova (in Gagauzia) and of southwestern Ukraine (in Budjak) that numbers around 250,000. ... The Vladimir Icon, one of the most venerated of Orthodox Christian icons of the Virgin Mary. ... Turkic peoples are Northern and Central Eurasian peoples who speak languages belonging to the Turkic family, and who, in varying degrees, share certain cultural and historical traits. ... The Balkans is the historic and geographic name used to describe a region of south-eastern Europe. ... (17th century - 18th century - 19th century - more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 18th century refers to the century that lasted from 1701 through 1800. ... Alternative meaning: Nineteenth Century (periodical) (18th century — 19th century — 20th century — more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 19th century was that century which lasted from 1801-1900 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar. ...

The Bulgarians of the region are known as Bessarabian Bulgarians and, like the Gagauzes, are descendants of settlers from the Balkans who moved the area vacated by the Nogais. The Bessarabian Bulgarians (Bulgarian: бесарабски българи, besarabski bâlgari) are a Bulgarian minority group of the historical region of Bessarabia, inhabiting parts of present-day Ukraine (Odessa Oblast) and Moldova. ...

Budjak was also home to a number of Bessarabian Germans originally from Württemberg and Prussia who settled the region in the early 19th century. A large number cultivated the Budjak steppes west of Akkerman (Bilhorod-Dnistrovs'kyi) known as "Kronsland." They were deported in Nazi-Soviet population transfers following the Soviet takeover of Bessarabia in 1940. These "Germans from outside Germany", or Volksdeutsche were resettled in areas of Nazi Greater Germany. Württemberg (often spelled Wurttemberg in English) refers to an area and a former state in Swabia, a region in south-western Germany. ... The coat of arms of the Kingdom of Prussia, 1701-1918 The word Prussia (Old Prussian: PrÅ«sa, German: Preußen, Polish: Prusy, Lithuanian: PrÅ«sai, Latin: Borussia) has had various (often contradictory) meanings: The land of the Baltic Prussians (in what is now parts of southern Lithuania, the Kaliningrad... Alternative meaning: Nineteenth Century (periodical) (18th century — 19th century — 20th century — more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 19th century was that century which lasted from 1801-1900 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar. ... Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi (Ukrainian: ; Romanian: Cetatea Albă; Turkish: Akkerman; Russian: , Belgorod-Dnestrovsky; Hungarian: Nyeszterfehérvár; Italian: Moncastro) is a city in southern Ukraine. ... The Nazi-Soviet population transfers were a series of population transfers between 1939 and 1941 of Germans from territories occupied by Soviet Union due to the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, notably Bessarabia and the Baltic states of Estonia and Latvia, all of which traditionally had large German minorities. ... Volksdeutsche (ethnic Germans) is a historical term which arose in the early 20th century to apply for Germans living outside of the German Empire. ... For information on the military unit see Großdeutschland Division. ...

Until World War II, the region was also home to a significant number of Jews who were largely exterminated along with most of the Bessarabian Jews. This article is a brief outline of the history of the Bessarabian Jews . ...

According to the 2001 Ukrainian Census the population of Budjak numbers 617,200 people. Of these, there is a Ukrainian plurality of 248,000 (40%) along with minorites of about 129,000 Bulgarians (21%), 124,500 Russians (20%) and 78,300 Romanians (13%). Bulgarians are the biggest ethnic group in Artsyz (39%), Bolhrad (61%) and Tarutyne (38%) raions, Russians in the city of Izmail (44%) and Romanians in Reni (49%) raion. Other raions in the region have a Ukrainian majority. Bolhrad is a city in South-western Ukraine, and capital of the Bolhrad district, a district with a large Bulgarian majority. ... See rayon for the textile made of processed cellulose. ... Izmail or Ismail (Ukrainian: ; Russian: ; Romanian: Ismail), is a town in south-western Ukraine, located near Danube delta in Odessa Oblast (province). ... Reni is: Alan Wren, drummer for The Stone Roses a city in southern Ukraine, near the confluence of Prut and Danube rivers This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ...

In the Izmail rayon 29% of the population is Ukrainian, 28% Romanian and 26% Bulgarian. It is notable, that in the Izmail raion, the Romanian population increased by one percent since 1989, whereas the number of Ukrainian and Bulgarians is slowly decreasing. This is not because the actual number of Romanians have increased per se, but it is rather because the Romanian population is decreasing at a slower pace then the Ukrainian, Russian and Bulgarian ones.

In the Sarata raion, the Romanian population has increased substantially by about 154%. This is a rather new development and it is probably due to the suppression of Romanians during the Soviet era who were forced to declare themselves as Russians rather than Moldovans. Sarata (Romanian: Sărata) is a town in south-western Ukraine, in the region of Bugeac (south-western Odessa Oblast). ... Soviet redirects here. ...

Districts (Raions)

Raions of Budjak

• Reny (Reni/Reni/Tomarovo)
• Kiliya (Chilia-Nouă/Kiliya)
• Izmayil (Ismail/Izmail)
• Tatarbunary (Tatarbunar/Tatarbunary)
• Artsyz (Arciz/Artsiz)
• Bilhorod-Dnistrovs'kyi (Cetatea Albă/Belgorod-Dnestrovskiy/Akkerman)
• Tarutyne (Tarutino/Tarutino)
• Bolhrad (Bolgrad/Bolgrad)
• Sarata (Sărata/Sarata)

Total population of the raions: 481,000 people. Image File history File links Bugcadm. ... Image File history File links Bugcadm. ... Reni is a city with about 20,000 people, located at the south-western tip of Ukraine, in the Budjak region. ... Kilia or Kiliya (Ukrainian: ; Russian: ; Romanian: Chilia) is a town in south-western Ukraine, located in the Danube Delta in Odessa Oblast (province). ... Izmail or Ismail (Ukrainian: ; Russian: ; Romanian: Ismail), is a town in south-western Ukraine, located near Danube delta in Odessa Oblast (province). ... Tatarbunary is a town in Ukraine approximately 100 kilometers (60 miles) southwest of Odesa, located in the historically-disputed area north of the Danube Delta known as The Dragons Beard. ... Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi (Ukrainian: ; Romanian: Cetatea Albă; Turkish: Akkerman; Russian: , Belgorod-Dnestrovsky; Hungarian: Nyeszterfehérvár; Italian: Moncastro) is a city in southern Ukraine. ... Bolhrad is a city in South-western Ukraine, and capital of the Bolhrad district, a district with a large Bulgarian majority. ... Sarata (Romanian: Sărata) is a town in south-western Ukraine, in the region of Bugeac (south-western Odessa Oblast). ...

Cities in Budjak

• Izmail (Ismail/Izmail)
• Bilhorod-Dnistrovs'kyi (Cetatea Albă/Belgorod-Dnestrovskiy/Akkerman)

Total population of the cities: 136,200 people. Izmail or Ismail (Ukrainian: ; Russian: ; Romanian: Ismail), is a town in south-western Ukraine, located near Danube delta in Odessa Oblast (province). ... Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi (Ukrainian: ; Romanian: Cetatea Albă; Turkish: Akkerman; Russian: , Belgorod-Dnestrovsky; Hungarian: Nyeszterfehérvár; Italian: Moncastro) is a city in southern Ukraine. ...