Yedisan

Jedisan is a historical region in Eastern Europe. Most of it lies today in Ukraine ( Odessa Oblast and parts of Mykolaiv Oblast ) and a small part in the west part of Transnistria. The region is bounded on the east by the Bug River, to the west of the Dniester, in the north of Podolia and the south by the Black Sea.

History

Jedisan stood in the 14th century under the influence of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and from the 15th century, the Khanate of Crimea. 1526 added Sultan Suleiman the region 's Ottoman Empire as part of eyalet Silistrien added. After the Peace of Jassy, in 1792, the Russian Empire annexed the area, which was under the government, with headquarters in Kherson. A year later, here the first census was held. In this extremely sparsely populated area between the Dniester and Southern Bug were only 67 villages, of which 49 were inhabited by Romanians. Most Tatars had fled at this time already in the Ottoman Empire or were deported by the tsarist authorities in remote provinces. There was a massive colonization by Russians and Ukrainians. Also, Greeks, Jews, Moldovans and from the neighboring principality of Moldova settled in Jedisan. The region experienced an economic and cultural boom, Odessa was built the largest Russian Black Sea port.

Between 1917 and 1920 Jedisan was a part of independent Ukraine, then in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic is a part of the Soviet Union. Four years later, the Moldavian ASSR was established in the western part, which also included parts of the historic landscape Podolia.

In 1940, the Moldavian ASSR dissolved after the occupation of Bessarabia by the Soviet Union and divided between the Moldovan and Ukrainian Soviet republics. 1941-1944 Jedisan formed part of a dominated Romania Transnistria. The area was recaptured during the Second World War by the Soviet Union. Since 1991 Jedisan part of Ukraine and Transnistria.

Credentials

• Viorel Dolha - All about Transnistria (English)

• Landscape in Ukraine
• Geography (Moldova )