Shabo, Ukraine

{{Short description|Rural locality in Odesa Oblast, Ukraine}}

{{Infobox settlement

| name = Shabo

| native_name = {{native name|uk|Шабо}}
{{native name|ro|Șaba-Târg}}

| settlement_type = Village

| image_skyline = Свято - Николаевская церковь, 1876 г.jpg

| image_alt = 275 px

| image_caption = St. Nicholas Church

| pushpin_map = Ukraine Odesa Oblast#Ukraine

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| pushpin_mapsize = 275

| coordinates = {{coord|46|8|N|30|23|E|source:wikidata|display=title}}

| subdivision_type = Country

| subdivision_name = {{UKR}}

| subdivision_type1 = Oblast

| subdivision_name1 = Odesa Oblast

| subdivision_type2 = Raion

| subdivision_name2 = Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi Raion

| subdivision_type3 = Hromada

| subdivision_name3 = Shabo rural hromada

| established_title = Village founded

| etymology =

| nickname =

| population_total = 7,100

| timezone1 = EET (Kyiv)

| utc_offset1 = +2

| timezone_DST = EEST

| utc_offset_DST = +3

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Shabo ({{langx|uk|Шабо}}; {{langx|ro|Șaba-Târg}} or {{lang|ro|Șaba}}) is a selo of Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi Raion, Odesa Oblast, Ukraine, situated at the Dniester Liman, some 7 km downstream of Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi. It hosts the administration of Shabo rural hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine.{{cite web |title=Шабовская громада |url=https://gromada.info/ru/obschina/shabivska/ |publisher=Портал об'єднаних громад України |language=ru}}

History

A Tatar village was established {{circa | 1500}}, called {{lang|tt|Acha-abag}} "the lower vineyards" (attested 1788). The name was subsequently simplified to Shabag and finally to Shaba / Shabo. After the conquest of Bessarabia by the Russian Empire and its annexation by Russia in 1812, the region suffered a population drain to the Ottoman Empire. Shabo in 1812 had been deserted by all but three or four families. Emperor Alexander I decided to re-populate the region, in 1822 inviting Swiss settlers from Vaud, led by {{ill|Louis-Vincent Tardent|ru|Тардан, Луи-Венсан}}, to cultivate vineyards at Shabo. The descendants of these settlers inhabit Shabo to the present day,{{cn|date=March 2024}} and Shabo wine remains famous for its quality.{{cn|date=November 2023}}

In 1889, the village Osnovy was founded in what is now southern Ukraine by settlers from Shabo. Osnovy became a significant grape plantation and winemaking site, where the wine was exported through the port of Brytany (present-day Dnipriany).{{Cite encyclopedia |title= Дніпряни, Нова Каховка, Херсонська область |encyclopedia= Історія міст і сіл Української РСР |url= https://ukrssr.com.ua/kherson/dnipryani-nova-kahovka |language=uk}} Osnovy eventually merged into Dnipriany in 1957.

{{Cite encyclopedia |title= Дніпряни, Нова Каховка, Херсонська область (продовження) |encyclopedia= Історія міст і сіл Української РСР |url= https://ukrssr.com.ua/kherson/dnipryani-nova-kahovka-2 |language=uk}}

Since 2023, Shabo wines are protected in Ukraine as Chabag (Protected Designation of Origin) and Acha-Abag (Protected Geographical Indication).{{Cite web |title= |script-title=uk:Реєстр географічних зазначень |trans-title=Registry of geographical indications |url=https://nipo.gov.ua/reiestr-heohrafichnykh-zaznachen/ |website=Ukrainian National Office for Intellectual Property and Innovations}}

Gallery

File:Shabo Swiss Graveyard.jpg|Swiss Graveyard

File:Центр культуры вина Шабо.jpg|Shabo Winery

File:Shabo Museum.jpg|Shabo Museum

File:Виноградники Шабо. Мерло.jpg|Merlot grape vines

File:FC Laharpe.jpg|Frédéric-César de la Harpe, Swiss teacher of Alexander I.

See also

References

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  • Charles Upson Clark, Bessarabia: Russia and Roumania on the Black Sea (1927), [http://depts.washington.edu/cartah/text_archive/clark/bc_8.shtml chapter 8].