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---- The Bessarabia Germans ((ドイツ語:Bessarabiendeutsche), (ルーマニア語、モルドバ語():Germani basarabeni)) are an ethnic group who lived in Bessarabia (today part of Moldova and Ukraine) between 1814 and 1940. Between 1814 and 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 government of Bessarabia at the Black Sea. The area, bordering on the Black Sea, was part of the Russian Empire, in the form of Novorossiya; it later became the Bessarabia Governorate. In their 125-year history, the Bessarabia Germans were an overwhelmingly rural population. Until their moving to the Greater Germany (Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact), they were a minority consisting of 93,000 people who made up some 3% of the population. They are distinguished from the Black Sea Germans who settled to the east of Odessa. The most prominent person of Bessarabian ancestry is the former German President Horst Köhler. Before emigrating in 1940, his parents lived in the German colony Rîşcani in Northern Bessarabia, being moved to Poland, which was by that time occupied by Germany, where Köhler was born. == Coat of arms == The coat of arms of the Bessarabia Germans 〔http://www.z-g-v.de/images/dok-bessarabien.gif〕(created after the Second World War) symbolizes the homeland at the Black Sea, left at 1940. The coat of arms consists of a shield as the main component of the heraldic emblem. On four divisions, the crest symbolizes the country's colors and other properties. * Azure symbolizes the blue sky over the steppe. * Or stands for the golden fields. * Gules is taken out of the Romanian flag - the state whose citizens the Bessarabia Germans were. * The well symbolizes the importance of water. * The cross is a symbol for the Church and religion. * The horse symbolizes the dearest friend of the farmer. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Bessarabia Germans」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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