Bessarabia
Bessarabia is a historical term for the geographic entity in Eastern Europe bounded by the Dniester River on the east and the Prut River on the west. This was the name by which Imperial Russia designated the eastern part of the Principality of Moldavia, ceded by the Ottoman Empire to Russia at the Peace of Bucharest in the aftermath of the Russo-Turkish War, 1806-1812.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Bessarabia
- Type: Region
- Description: historical region in present-day Moldova and Ukraine
- Categories: historical region, Ukrainian historical regions, and interfluve
- Location: Europe
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Yiddish—“Bessarabia” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Besarabia”
- Arabic: “بسرابيا”
- Arabic: “بيسارابيا”
- Armenian: “Բեսարաբիա”
- Azerbaijani: “Bessarabiya”
- Basque: “Besarabia”
- Belarusian: “Бесарабія”
- Belarusian: “Бэсарабія”
- Breton: “Besarabia”
- Bulgarian: “Бесарабия”
- Catalan: “Besaràbia”
- Catalan: “Bessaràbia”
- Chinese: “比萨拉比亚”
- Chinese: “比薩拉比亞”
- Croatian: “Besarabija”
- Croatian: “Bessarabija”
- Czech: “Besarábie”
- Czech: “Bessarábie”
- Danish: “Besarabien”
- Danish: “Bessarabien”
- Dimli (individual language): “Besarabya”
- Dutch: “Besarabie”
- Dutch: “Besarabië”
- Dutch: “Bessarabie”
- Dutch: “Bessarabië”
- Esperanto: “Besarabio”
- Estonian: “Bessaraabia”
- Finnish: “Bessarabia”
- French: “Bessarabie historique”
- French: “Bessarabie”
- French: “Béssarabie”
- French: “Histoire de la Bessarabie”
- French: “Région de Bessarabie”
- Galician: “Besarabia”
- Georgian: “ბესარაბია”
- German: “Basarabia”
- German: “Besarabien”
- German: “Bessarabien”
- German: “Bessarabier”
- Greek: “Βεσσαραβία”
- Hebrew: “בסאראביה”
- Hebrew: “בסראביה”
- Hebrew: “בסרביה”
- Hungarian: “Besszarábia”
- Icelandic: “Bessarabía”
- Ido: “Besarabia”
- Indonesian: “Bassarabia”
- Indonesian: “Bessarabia”
- Italian: “Bassarabia”
- Italian: “Bessarabia”
- Japanese: “ベッサラヴィア”
- Japanese: “ベッサラビア”
- Kashubian: “Besarabiô”
- Kazakh: “Bessarabïya”
- Kazakh: “Бессарабия”
- Kazakh: “بەسسارابىييا”
- Korean: “베사라비아”
- Latin: “Bessarabia”
- Latvian: “Besarābija”
- Latvian: “Bessarābija”
- Lithuanian: “Besarabija”
- Lojban: “Bessarabia”
- Low German: “Bessarabie”
- Lower Sorbian: “Besarabska”
- Luxembourgish: “Bessarabien”
- Macedonian: “Бесарабија”
- Malagasy: “Besarabia”
- Malay: “Bessarabia”
- Marathi: “बेसारेबिया”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Bessarabia”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Bessarabia”
- Norwegian: “Bessarabia”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Bessaràbia”
- Ossetian: “Бессараби”
- Persian: “بسارابیا”
- Persian: “بیسارابیا”
- Polish: “Besarabia”
- Polish: “Bessarabia”
- Portuguese: “Bessarabia”
- Portuguese: “Bessarábia”
- Romanian: “Basarabia”
- Romanian: “Bessarabia”
- Romanian: “Moldova de Est”
- Romanian: “Republica Moldova”
- Romanian: “Republica Moldovenească Basarabia”
- Russian: “Басарабия”
- Russian: “Бесарабия”
- Russian: “Бессарабия”
- Serbian: “Basarabia”
- Serbian: “Besarabija”
- Serbian: “Башарабија”
- Serbian: “Бесарабија”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Besarabija”
- Slovak: “Besarábia”
- Slovenian: “Besarabija”
- Spanish: “Basarabia”
- Spanish: “Besarabia”
- Swedish: “Bessarabien”
- Tatar: “Бессарабия”
- Turkish: “Basarabya”
- Turkish: “Besarabya”
- Ukrainian: “Басарабія”
- Ukrainian: “Бесарабія”
- Ukrainian: “Бессарабія”
- Upper Sorbian: “Besarabiska”
- Upper Sorbian: “Besarabska”
- Upper Sorbian: “Bessarabska”
- Urdu: “بیسارابیہ”
- Uzbek: “Bessarabiya”
- Venetian: “Besaràbia”
- Vietnamese: “Bessarabia”
- Western Panjabi: “بیسارابیہ”
- Wu Chinese: “比萨拉比亚”
- Yiddish: “בעסאראביע”
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About Mapcarta. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Bessarabia”. Photo: D.Rovchak, CC BY-SA 3.0.