Shabo, Ukraine

Shabo
Шабо (Ukrainian)
Șaba-Târg (Romanian)
Village
275 px
St. Nicholas Church
Shabo is located in Odesa Oblast
Shabo
Shabo
Shabo is located in Ukraine
Shabo
Shabo
Coordinates: 46°8′N 30°23′E / 46.133°N 30.383°E / 46.133; 30.383
Country Ukraine
OblastOdesa Oblast
RaionBilhorod-Dnistrovskyi Raion
HromadaShabo rural hromada
Population
 • Total
7,100
Time zoneUTC+2 (EET (Kyiv))
 • Summer (DST)UTC+3 (EEST)

Shabo (Ukrainian: Шабо; Romanian: Șaba-Târg or Șaba) is a selo of Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi Raion, Odesa Oblast, Ukraine, situated at the Dniester Liman, some 7 km downstream of Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi. It hosts the administration of Shabo rural hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine.[1]

History

A Tatar village was established c. 1500, called Acha-abag "the lower vineyards" (attested 1788). The name was subsequently simplified to Shabag and finally to Shaba / Shabo. After the conquest of Bessarabia by the Russian Empire and its annexation by Russia in 1812, the region suffered a population drain to the Ottoman Empire. Shabo in 1812 had been deserted by all but three or four families. Emperor Alexander I decided to re-populate the region, in 1822 inviting Swiss settlers from Vaud, led by Louis-Vincent Tardent [ru], to cultivate vineyards at Shabo. The descendants of these settlers inhabit Shabo to the present day,[citation needed] and Shabo wine remains famous for its quality.[citation needed]

In 1889, the village Osnovy was founded in what is now southern Ukraine by settlers from Shabo. Osnovy became a significant grape plantation and winemaking site, where the wine was exported through the port of Brytany (present-day Dnipriany).[2] Osnovy eventually merged into Dnipriany in 1957.[3]

Since 2023, Shabo wines are protected in Ukraine as Chabag (Protected Designation of Origin) and Acha-Abag (Protected Geographical Indication).[4]

  • Swiss Graveyard
    Swiss Graveyard
  • Shabo Winery
    Shabo Winery
  • Shabo Museum
    Shabo Museum
  • Merlot grape vines
    Merlot grape vines
  • Frédéric-César de la Harpe, Swiss teacher of Alexander I.
    Frédéric-César de la Harpe, Swiss teacher of Alexander I.

See also

References

Notes

  1. ^ "Шабовская громада" (in Russian). Портал об'єднаних громад України.
  2. ^ "Дніпряни, Нова Каховка, Херсонська область". Історія міст і сіл Української РСР (in Ukrainian).
  3. ^ "Дніпряни, Нова Каховка, Херсонська область (продовження)". Історія міст і сіл Української РСР (in Ukrainian).
  4. ^ Реєстр географічних зазначень [Registry of geographical indications]. Ukrainian National Office for Intellectual Property and Innovations.

Sources

  • Charles Upson Clark, Bessarabia: Russia and Roumania on the Black Sea (1927), chapter 8.