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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 71. Chapters: Bessarabian ethnic groups, Budjak, History of Bessarabia, Metropolis of Bessarabia, People from Bessarabia, Populated places in Bessarabia, Sfatul Ţării, Anatol E. Baconsky, Tatarbunary Uprising, History of the Jews in Bessarabia, Alliance for European Integration, Union of Bessarabia with Romania, Khotyn, Bessarabia Germans, Lipcani, Odessa Oblast, Bessarabian Bulgarians, Igor Kostin, Moldavian Democratic Republic, Khotin Uprising, Gavril Bănulescu-Bodoni, Robert Frimtzis, Pavel Tcacenco, Tatarka common graves, Osip Yermansky, Ţinutul Dunării, Ţinutul Suceava, St. Teodora de la Sihla Church, Ţinutul Nistru, Simion Bughici, Emanuil Gavriliţă, Victor Zambrea, Trajan's Wall, Bessarabian Peasants' Party, Wedding in Bessarabia, Petru Păduraru, Vitali Holostenco, Gurie Grosu, Bessarabian Soviet Socialist Republic, Rumcherod, Bessarabia Romanian Land, Misionarul, Răzeni Massacre, Bessarabian rugs and carpets, Izmail Oblast, Sabia Dreptăţii, Samuel Wainer, Luminătorul, Bessarabia and Bucovina Cultural Association, Artemie Munteanu, Aleksandr Pavlovich Lensky. Excerpt: Sfatul Ţării was, in 1917-1918, the National Assembly (parliament) of the Governorate (guberniya, province) of Bessarabia of the disintegrating Russian Empire, which proclaimed the independent Moldavian Democratic Republic in December 1917, and then union with Romania in April (according to the old style, March) 1918. In August 1914, the First World War started, and 300,000 Bessarabians were mobilized and enrolled in the army of the Russian Empire, the majority in the immediate wake of Russian defeat. By March 1917, the military actions on the Eastern Front came to a stalemate. Conferences of soldiers in the rear of the front line dominated. Many called for a Republic; the Tsar had abdicated in March 1917, but the Russian Provisional...
