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The Bessarabia Governorate [a] was a province of the Russian Empire, with its administrative centre in Kishinev . It consisted of an area of 45,632.42 square kilometres (17,618.78 sq mi) and a population of 1,935,412 inhabitants.
The newly acquired territories were organised as the Bessarabia Governorate of the Russian Empire, adopting a name previously used for the southern plains between the Dniester and the Danube rivers.
The Kishinev pogrom or Kishinev massacre was an anti-Jewish riot that took place in Kishinev (modern Chișinău, Moldova), then the capital of the Bessarabia Governorate in the Russian Empire, on 19–21 April [O.S. 6–8 April] 1903. [1]
Apr 9, 2018 · Located in Tsarist Russia’s fertile Bessarabia region, turn-of-the-century Kishinev was home to about 55,000 Jews among a population of 280,000. Today, the city is called Chisinau, and is the...
Apr 21, 2023 · At that time, Chisinau was home to 110,000 people, of whom 50,000 were Jewish, and was the capital of Bessarabia - a governorate of the Russian Empire.
the Kishinev pogrom lasted some forty-eight hours, resulting in the murder of forty-nine Jews, the rape of dozens of women and girls, injuries to more than 500 town residents, and the destruction of grocery stores, small businesses,
Over the next century, Kishinev and the rest of Bessarabia would become a subject of Russian imperial state-building and administrative organization, developing and modernizing until the revolution in 1917, when it rejoined Moldavia.
