What the records say
- When
- 27 Aug 1941
- Kind
- Territorial change
- Coordinates
- 46.85° N, 28.63° E
- Government
- Romania
- Former government
- Soviet Union
- History
- After the invasion of the Soviet Union, Romania reannexed Bessarabia.
- Source map
- Overview Map of Romania · 8/1940
Placed at the area, not an exact site.
Bessarabia Governorate
1812–1917 unit of Russia
The Bessarabia Governorate was a province (guberniya) of the Russian Empire, with its administrative centre in Kishinev (Chișinău). It consisted of an area of 45,632.42 square kilometres (17,618.78 mi2) and a population of 1,935,412 inhabitants.
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The source
- European Borders, World War II (1938–1945)Stanford Spatial History Lab (M. De Groot)Stanford Spatial History Lab: scholarly reuse, no commercial use
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