Artsyz

Arzys (Ukrainian Арциз, German and Russian Arzis, Romanian Arciz or rarely Arsita, Turkish Artsiz or Arsız ) is a city in southern Ukraine, about 113 kilometers southwest of Odessa. It is the center of the same name Rajons Arzys and lies at the confluence of the Tschaha ( Чага ) with the Kohylnyk ( Когильник ). Since 1963, the city Arzys law.

History

The town was founded in 1816 by Protestant German settlers in Bessarabia at the confluence of Kogälnik and Tschaga (village number 11). The immigrants came from the territory of Prussian Poland in the Kingdom of Poland. The first group of 82 families came from the district of Kulm, the second group from the province of Kalisz. The name was given by the Russian settlement authority and commemorates the Battle of Arcis- sur -Aube between Russia and Napoleon in the French resort of Arcis- sur- Aube. 1824 divided from the place New Arzis because the fields were up to 10 km in front of the village. In the early years suffered the settlement Arzis, by crop failure, significant setbacks. A plague epidemic were 1829 180 and 280 cholera victims. In the 20th century retail and small industry was in place with textile mills, dye works and factories for agricultural machinery.

The rapidly developing settlement belonged to the Russian Empire until 1918, then came to the Kingdom of Romania and was established in 1940 on the basis of the Hitler- Stalin pact part of the Soviet Union. 1941 to 1944 it was occupied by Romania, after which it was a part of the Ukrainian SSR, or a part of since 1991, is now Ukraine. The German population of about 1,800 people joined after the Soviet occupation in 1940 closed the resettlement into the German Reich on.