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 Moldavian 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). Osnovy eventually merged into Dnipriany in 1957.
↑Auer, Anita (2022). "The verticalization model of language shift from a historical sociolinguistic perspective: A commentary". In Brown, Joshua A. (ed.). The Verticalization Model of Language Shift. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p.207. doi:10.1093/oso/9780198864639.003.0008.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link)
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