Shabo, Ukraine

Shabo (Ukrainian: Шабо; Romanian: Șaba-Târg or 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.^[1]

Shabo Шабо (Ukrainian) Șaba-Târg (Romanian)
Village
St. Nicholas Church
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Coordinates: 46°8′N 30°23′E
Country	Ukraine
Oblast	Odesa Oblast
Raion	Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi Raion
Hromada	Shabo rural hromada
Population
• Total	7,100
Time zone	UTC+2 (EET (Kyiv))
• Summer (DST)	UTC+3 (EEST)

History

A Tatar village was established c. 1500, called 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 Louis-Vincent Tardent [ru], to cultivate vineyards at Shabo. The descendants of these settlers inhabit Shabo to the present day,^{[citation needed]} and Shabo wine remains famous for its quality.^{[citation needed]}

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).^[2] Osnovy eventually merged into Dnipriany in 1957.^[3]

Since 2023, Shabo wines are protected in Ukraine as Chabag (Protected Designation of Origin) and Acha-Abag (Protected Geographical Indication).^[4]

Gallery

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  Swiss Graveyard
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  Shabo Winery
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  Shabo Museum
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  Merlot grape vines
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  Frédéric-César de la Harpe, Swiss teacher of Alexander I.

See also

• Ukrainian wine
• Wine production in Odesa Oblast