Show lb pit e e to ii buring 0 i events I 1 I 1 1 d nado 01 ol D t ra SARABIA SHAPED LIKE A PITCHER WITH WITHOUT OUT A HANDLE Roii manla since the conc lulon ion of we the world war the I 1 largest gest of the states of southeastern europe owes oes much of tills this increased area to its recent annexation ot of Bes sarabia previously a part of oc ru ait iii Bes sarabia the former russian province lying between bencen the pruth an and the iester ahers and bounded on the south by tile danube and the black sea might be likened in shape to a tall slim pitcher without It hout a handle it Is completely bounded by water except at a very narrow point at the mouth of the pitcher the ariles ter river forms the eastern boundary of the province rice flowing out of the crown lands at galicia gallela Gall cla the river runs east in general direction for approximately fifty miles then it turns southeast tor for ninety miles to iester bay an arm of the black sea some eifle fifteen n miles from odessa dussias Rus sias principal port on that inland body of water the pruth river flowing out of galicia Gall cla runs east for about twenty menty miles then turns southeast for a hundred and ten miles and then slightly west of south to its confluence with the danube Bes sarabia Is a little smaller than vermont and new hampshire together its greatest length Is 19 miles while its greatest width Is it is mostly flat except for some well wooded off shoots of the carpathian mountains in the northwest it might be said to be the vineyard of russia being a great producer of wine the population of Is made up of ians little russians poles Roum Rouman anians lans bulgarians Bulga rians jews arme greeks and tartars Tar tars more afore than of the inhabitants live on the soil the capital Is which Is located almost at the center of the province to the alie west of bes sarabia lies doumanian Rou manian moldavia and to the east the russian province of and cherson Kh erson the original inhabitants of bessa robin rabia are believed to have been after whom came the ians fans because it was the key to one of the approaches toward the empire of byzantium the pro province once was mas invaded by many successive she races during the early centuries os of the christian era trojan trajan incorporated it with the he province of dacia and in the next century the goths goehs poured into it to be follo followed ed in turn by the huns and and the bulgarians Bulga rians in the seventh century a thracian tribe known as the besof settled there and gave to the land its name between 1711 and 1812 it was the grent great boue of contention between the ottoman turks and the russians the russians Riis Ras lost and recaptured it five times in that century after the napoleonic wars it was definitely annexed to russia and its frontier pushed sout southward huard so as to include the delta of the danube As a result of the crimean war moldavia was given and other territory but under the treaty of berlin in 1878 fol following following loIng dussias Rus sias mastery of turkey and the congress of berlin russia secured nil all of tile the territory east of din river alv er pruth bes sarabia rem tc 1 1 a part of from that time until the dismemberment of the czars azars empire following russian revolution |