Interesting Information about Akkerman

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In 1799 the czarist counselor Sumarokov noted after his visit into the newly annexed territories: "in Ovidiopol the inhabitants are, almost all of them, Moldavians and Greeks, only a few Russians. All are merchants from Akkerman [Cetatea Albă] that came with goods. Tiraspol has only 350 houses, and the inhabitants are: Malorussians [small Russians, a.k.a. Ukrainians], Moldavians, Walachians, Jews and Gypsies." About the Dubăsari town he says that the town is inhabited mainly by Moldavians, secondly by Greeks, Bulgarians, Jews and "only a few Russians" - probably the recently arrived czarist administrators. The counselor mentioned that all the villages at the East of River Nistru are Moldavian (he passed personally through Mălăieşti, Butor, Taşlîc, Puhăceni).

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As a result of their victory of the 1711 war, the Turks placed a garrison in Hotin, rebuilt the fortress under the direction of French engineers, and made the surrounding region into a sanjak. Moldavia was now shut in by Turkish border strips at Hotin, Bender, Akkerman, Kilia, Ismail and Reni. The new sanjak was the most extensive on Moldavian territory, comprising a hundred villages and the market-towns of Lipcani-Briceni and Suliţa Noua. Under the Turks, Bessarabia and Transistria witnessed a constant immigration from Poland and Ukraine, of Ukrainian speaking landless peasants, largely fugitives from the severe serfdom which prevailed there, to the districts of Hotin and Chişinău.

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“The Fear of Otranto” brought up new energies for the fight against the Ottomans (1480-1481). Stephen was the only one to strongly act out, on land, the proclaimed crusade. At the time, Mathias was black mailing the Pope that if he didn’t get his ecclesiastical ways, he would become an orthodox. In 1483, Mathias bailed out from the war and signed a five years truth with Bayazed II, Mehmed’s successor. The truth was supposed to protect Moldavia, a nameless part of the his kingdom in Mathias’s view. Neither European States, nor, least of all, the Ottomans accepted it. Moldavia should have been mentioned as a separate political part. In 1484, her key harbours Chilia and Cetatea Albã surrendered to Bayazed. Stephen seemed paralysed all this time. Mathias blamed everyone. Eventually, he found Stephen responsible having provoked the Turks.

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AKKERMAN (in old Slay. Byelgorod, “(white town"), a town, formerly a fortress, of south west Russia, in the government of Bessarabia, situated on the right bank of the estuary (Unit* of the Dniester, 12 M. from the Black Sea. The town stands on the site of the ancient Milesian colony of Tyras. Centuries later it was rebuilt by the Genoese, who called it Mauro Castro. The Turks first acquired possession of it in 1484. It was taken by the Russians in 1770, 1774 and 1806, but each time returned to the Turks, and not definitely annexed to Russia until 1881. A treaty concluded here in 1826 between Russia and the Porte secured considerable advantages to the former. It was the non-observance of this treaty that led to the war of 1828. The harbor is too shallow to admit vessels of large size, but the proximity of the town to Odessa secures for it a thriving business in wine, salt, fish, wool and tallow. The salt is obtained from the saline lakes (limans) in the neighborhood. The town, with its suburbs, contains beautiful gardens and vineyards. It is surrounded by ramparts, and commanded by a citadel. Population in 1900 was 32,470.