Reni (Ukraine)
Reni (Ukrainian Рені, Russian Рени, Romanian Reni) is a city in southern Ukraine in Budschak, about 220 kilometers southwest of Odessa and 20 km from the Romanian city of Galaţi. It is the center of the same name Rajons Reni and sits at the mouth of the Prut and the Danube.
The town was founded in 1548 and was next to one of the two seaports Galaţi of the Principality of Moldavia. 1812, the city was occupied by Russia and came to the province of Bessarabia. Reni in 1821 was awarded the city status in 1856 after Russia lost the Crimean War, the city came to Moldavia again, later the Principality of Wallachia, in 1878 but re-connected to Russia. After the end of World War Reni was like the rest of today's southern Odessa oblast to Romania, where it remained until 1940 and again from 1941 to 1944. Since it is a part of the Ukrainian SSR and since 1991 is now Ukraine.
About half of the inhabitants of the city are Romanians, the rest of the population shares to the ethnic groups of Ukrainians, Russians, Bulgarians and Gagauz on.
Because of its location near the border with Romania and Moldova and the former belonging to Romania a railway from Romania to Moldova runs through the city, but this has no direct connection to the rail network of the rest of Ukraine.
Ananjiw | Arzys | Balta | Beresiwka | Bilhorod - Dnistrovskyi | Biljajiwka | Bolhrad | Illichivsk | Ismail | Juschne | Kilija | Kodyma | Kotowsk | Odessa | Reni | Rosdilna | Tatarbunary | Teplodar | Wylkowe
Urban-type settlements Awanhard | Beresyne | Borodino | Chlibodarske | Frunsiwka | Iwaniwka | Kominterniwske | Krasni Okny | Ljubaschiwka | Lymanske | Mykolajiwka | Novi Biljari | Olexandriwka | Ovidiopol | Petriwka | Radisne | Rauchiwka | Sarata | Satyschschja | Zatoka | Sawran | Schyrjajewe | Selenohirske | Serhijiwka | Serpnewe | Slobidka | Suworowe | Tajirowe | Tarutyne | Chornomorske | Welyka Mychajliwka | Welykodolynske | Zebrykowe
- Place in the Odessa Oblast