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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

In view of the general peril, Rumania and Russia were reported to have agreed to reduce tension on the Bessarabian frontier by removing troops six and a quarter miles from each side of the line.

From Time Magazine Archive

The severest fighting during these operations took place near Toporoutz and Rarawotse on the Bessarabian border.

From The Story of the Great War, Volume IV (of 8) Champagne, Artois, Grodno; Fall of Nish; Caucasus; Mesopotamia; Development of Air Strategy; United States and the War by Miller, Francis Trevelyan