Bessarabia province (Geographic Playing Card)
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Title:
Bessarabia province
Subject:
Regional Diversity
Creator:
Konstantin Matveevich Gribanov
Source:
Album of Geographical Playing Cards of Russia, arranged on 80 cards according to maritime basin (A wonderful and instructive child's game of patience)
Publisher:
Library of Congress; Russian National Library
Date:
1856
Rights:
Access provided by the Library of Congress strictly for noncommercial educational and research purposes.
Language:
Russian
Region:
Novorossiia
Capital:
Kishinev
Area (sq. miles):
18,265
Population:
792,000
Population density:
43.4 people per square mile
Ethnicity of inhabitants:
Russians, Jews, Germans, Gypsies, Greeks, Tatars, Moldovans, Bulgarians, Armenians, Serbs, colonists
Economic activities:
crop farming, cattle farming, timber trade, fishing, pasture, tobacco trade
Trade:
Trade is in a flourishing state.
Cities:
9
Notable features:
Two fortresses and an ancient citadel. Four customs-houses are located in the oblast.
Climate:
generally salubrious
Card #:
35