Shabo, Ukraine

Shabo Шабо (Ukrainian) Șaba-Târg (Romanian)
Village
St. Nicholas Church
Shabo Shabo
Coordinates:
Country	Ukraine
Oblast	Odesa Oblast
Raion	Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi Raion
Hromada	Shabo rural hromada
Population
• Total	7,100
Time zone	UTC+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.

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, to cultivate vineyards at Shabo. The descendants of these settlers inhabit Shabo to the present day, and Shabo wine remains famous for its quality.

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). Osnovy eventually merged into Dnipriany in 1957.

Gallery

• 
  Swiss Graveyard in Shabo.
• 
  Frédéric-César de la Harpe, Swiss teacher of Alexander I.

See also

• Ukrainian wine
• Wine production in Odesa Oblast

References

Sources

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

External links

• (in French) Șaba - un avanpost européen sur le Nistre by Ioan Papa
• (in Russian) Шабо
• (in Ukrainian) Торговая марка «Шабо» ("Shabo" wine)