Bessarabia Germans
The Bessarabia Germans (German: Bessarabiendeutsche; Romanian: Germani basarabeni; Ukrainian: Бессарабські німці, romanized: Bessarabs'ki nimtsi) are a German ethnic group (formerly part of the Germans of Romania) who lived in Bessarabia (today part of the Republic of Moldova and south-western Ukraine) between 1814 and 1940. From 1814 to 1842, 9,000 of them immigrated from the German areas Baden, Württemberg, Bavaria, some Prussian areas of modern-day Poland and Alsace, France, to the Russian governorate of Bessarabia at the Black Sea.