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Chortitza Colony (Khortytskyi District, Zaporizhzhia) was a volost, a subdivision of the Yekaterinoslav uezd within the Yekaterinoslav Governorate. During the times of Catherine the Great, the area was annexed by the Russian Empire after liquidation of the Zaporozhian Sich. It was granted to Plautdietsch-speaking settlers (better known as Russian Mennonites) for colonization northwest of Khortytsia Island. The territory of the former colony is now split between the city of Zaporizhzhia and its adjacent Zaporizhzhia Raion, within Zaporizhia it is part of Voznesenskyi and Khortytskyi districts.
Chortitza was founded in 1789 by Mennonite settlers of Dutch ancestry from the Vistula delta and consisted of many villages. It was the first of many Mennonite settlements in the Russian Empire. Because the Mennonites living in these villages emigrated or were evacuated or deported at the end of World War II, or emigrated after the collapse of the Soviet Union, few Mennonites are living in the area today.
After establishment of the Soviet Union, the colony was converted into Khortytsia Raion, a predecessor of Zaporizhzhia Raion. In 1929–30 as part of the Soviet policy of korenizatsia, it was converted into a national district promoting development of the German language culture.
ChortitzaColony (Khortytskyi District, Zaporizhzhia) was a volost, a subdivision of the Yekaterinoslav uezd within the Yekaterinoslav Governorate. During...
the ChortitzaColony in modern Ukraine near Zaporizhia (itself originally of Prussian origins) to settlements in Canada. Theologically, Old Colony Mennonites...
Transportation from 1979 to 1982. Henry Kroeger was born in Rosenthal, ChortitzaColony, Yekaterinoslav Governorate. (Now Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine) to Helena...
settled during the years 1836 to 1852 by 149 landless families from the ChortitzaColony. The settlement was located on the Bodni, a small tributary of the...
which lies in modern-day Ukraine. The colonies were Chortitza (Old Colony) and Molotschna (New Colony),[page needed] as noted above. There was a third variety[citation...
He was raised in the Mennonite village of Rosenthal, part of the ChortitzaColony, but later settled in the U.S. Abraham Isaak was the second of 12 children...
accepted this invitation, establishing Chortitza on the Dnieper River as their first colony in 1789. A second larger colony, Molotschna, was founded in 1804...
the Chortitza colonists were from the northernmost part of the Marienburger Werder, the Gdansk Spit and the Gdansk urban area. The ChortitzaColony Plautdietsch...
further east to Russia. Most of the founders of the Molotschna Colony and the ChortitzaColony were Flemish Mennonites who spoke Werdersch. A variety in Molotschna...
so-called Russian Mennonites that originated in the ChortitzaColony in Russia, including the Chortitza, Reinlander, and Sommerfelder groups, which are now...
go to their home churches, for many this being Schoenwiese in the ChortitzaColony. They also went back to their home churches to allow the young people...
colonists sold Khortytsia Island to the Alexandrovsk city council (see ChortitzaColony). In 1965, Khortytsia Island was "proclaimed a historical and cultural...
of ChortitzaColony were from the Danzig area. In general, the Mennonites migrated from the areas mentioned in the introduction to ChortitzaColony or...
earlier, in 1789, founded the ChortitzaColony at the invitation of Catherine the Great. It was the successful founding of Chortitza that encouraged expansion...
Abraham Unger, Oncken visited the Mennonite Brethren Church in the Chortitzacolony in 1869, assisting in the ordinations of Abraham Unger as elder, Aaron...
established the colonies of Chortitza and Molotschna, under the protection of the Russian Empire. In 1868, the ChortitzaColony purchased some land from...
the Russian Mennonites. The first Mennonite settlement in Russia, ChortitzaColony, was founded by these emigrees in 1789. The Mennonites who remained...
(Ukrainian: Розенгартен) by German-speaking Mennonites settling the ChortitzaColony; it was renamed to Novoslobidka in 1920. Administratively, it belongs...
residents. Voznesenka, former sloboda Khortytsia, island Protolcha ChortitzaColony Mala Khortytsia, much smaller island The territory of the district...
is German. This is part of the ChortitzaColony, land granted to German-speaking Mennonites for colonization. Chortitza was founded in 1789 by Plautdietsch-speaking...
Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan as a Liberal. He was born in Neuendorf, ChortitzaColony, the son of Kornelius G. Ens and Barbara Giesbrecht. In 1883, Ens married...
background in Paraguay: Menno Colony. This first Mennonite settlement in the Chaco was founded by conservative Chortitza, Sommerfeld and Bergthal Mennonites...
founded in 1785 as Burwalde by German-speaking Mennonites settling the ChortitzaColony. Administratively, it belongs to the Dolynske Rural Council, a local...
populated largely by Ukrainians. After the first Mennonite colony within the Russian Empire, Chortitza, was founded in 1789, Mennonite visitors found the freedoms...
District was first inhabited by German-speaking Mennonites settling the ChortitzaColony in the late 18th century. By the 1960s, the first residential neighborhoods...
communities. The faction with individual ownership moved to the Mennonite colonyChortitza for some time, but soon returned. After a fire destroyed most of the...
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