Bessarabia
noun
a region in Moldova, on the W shore of the Black Sea: formerly in Romania.
Bessarabian
-
a word derived from
Bessarabia.
Example Sentences
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Bessarabian rugs lay densely overlapping on the floor.
From New York Times ● Mar. 10, 2022
His father was born in Odessa to a well-heeled Jewish family, and his mother was of Bessarabian Jewish lineage.
From The Guardian ● May 9, 2018
A group calling itself the Bessarabian Rada, claiming to represent a historical territory encompassing much of south-west Ukraine and neighbouring Moldova, held a founding meeting in Odessa recently.
From The Guardian ● May 22, 2015
Terror swept the Bessarabian plains, driving the peasant folk and bourgeoisie like leaves in a rising storm.
From Time Magazine Archive
They let the world know that Russia appropriated their Bessarabian district by force, and that they accepted the Dobrudscha as a war indemnity.
From The Development of the European Nations, 1870-1914 (5th ed.) by John Holland Rose
