Bessarabia: the ethonographical map

"The number of the inhabitants afte the nationalities aproximative and up to the 1 January 1916." ; "Gift from National Archives DEC 6 1954." From the following sources: Maps of the Russian General - headquarters, - Various maps of Bessarabia published in Russia. The dates of the administrative annuary of Bessarbia, 1914 issue. The materials regarding the nationalities of Bessarabia collected by the Zemstvos of Bessarabia (the county councils) between the years 1906-1909 for the elaboration of a project for the introduction of general and obligatory education in Bessarabia. Differanet studies about Bessarabia, published only in the Russian language, etc.

1 map : color ; 93 x 77 cm.

In the spring of 1919 Captain John Kaba of the United States Army completed a two-month survey of political and economic conditions in Bessarabia (present-day Moldova) on behalf of the American Relief Administration, the organization established by the United States Congress to provide humanitarian assistance and combat mass starvation in Europe in the immediate aftermath of World War I. Kaba published his findings in a report entitled Politico-economic Review of Basarabia, issued on June 30, 1919. This map accompanied the report. It uses colored circles to show the size and ethnic composition of the populations of the towns and cities of the province. The colored bar graph to the left of the map provides a key to the circles, and gives the breakdown by ethnic group for all 3 million people in Bessarabia. The leading groups by size of population are listed as Roumanians (known as Moldavians in Russia), Jews, Ucranians [sic], Russians, “Roumaniens who have become Russians or Rutenians,”

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