History of Bessarabia

Khotyn (, ; , ; see other names) is a city in Dnistrovskyi Raion, Chernivtsi Oblast of western Ukraine, located south-west of Kamianets-Podilskyi. It hosts the administration of Khotyn urban hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. According to the 2001 Ukrainian census, it has a population of 11,124. Current population:

forced distribution of Jewish population in the Russian Empire

peace treaty in 1812

former country

former Soviet republic

any of several earthen fortifications in eastern Europe

Romanian peasant revolt (1924)

legislative body in Bessarabia

proclaimed union in 1918, creating Greater Romania

1918 unification of the Kingdom of Romania with most ethnically Romanian territories

uprising of pro-Soviet forces in Bender against Romanian administration

Ukrainian-led insurrection in Bessarabia, 1919

200px|thumb|right|Romanians in Romania by counties (Ethnic maps 1930–2011) Romanianization is the series of policies aimed toward ethnic assimilation implemented by the Romanian authorities during the 20th and 21st century. The most noteworthy policies were those aimed at the Hungarian minority in Romania, Jews and as well the Ukrainian minority in Bukovina and Bessarabia.

controversy over the ownership of the geographic region of Bessarabia

thumb|210px|Orthodox Church in Balta, Ukraine|Balta, center of the Inochentist movement (1941 photograph) Inochentism (occasionally translated as Innocentism or the Inochentist church; ; Russian: Иннокентьевцы, Innokentevtsy) is a millennialist and Charismatic Christian sect, split from mainstream Eastern Orthodoxy in the early 20th century. The church was first set up in the Russian Empire, and was later active in both the Soviet Union and Romania. Its founder was Bessarabian monk Ioan Levizor, known by his monastic name, Inochenție.

Romanian autonomous province existent during World War II