| In the vicinity of the Bessarabian frontier, the army was already involved in a series of engagements. |
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| Bessarabian painters of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries concentrated on landscapes and rural themes. |
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| I continue on, more than 250 miles, to the outskirts of a 1,000-year-old Bessarabian fortress city. |
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| In May 1919, the Bessarabian Soviet Socialist Republic was proclaimed as a government in exile. |
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| In addition to all that, one of us claims to be Bessarabian based upon his father's birthplace. |
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| Born in the Bessarabian shtetl of Novoselitz, he apparently quarreled with his family there. |
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| According to various estimates, more than 90 percent of the population nominally belongs to either of two Orthodox denominations, Moldovan or Bessarabian. |
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| The union was recognized by Britain, France and Italy, but the Soviet government declared it illegal, claiming the area as the Bessarabian Soviet Socialist Republic. |
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| The 19th century saw the arrival of many more Ukrainians from Podolia and Galicia, as well as new communities, such as Lipovans, Bulgarians and Bessarabian Germans. |
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