Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 247, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 November 1917 — War-Ravaged Bessarabia. [ARTICLE]

War-Ravaged Bessarabia.

The original Inhabitants of Bessarabia are believed to have been Cimmerians, after whom came the Scythians. Because it was the key to one of the approaches toward the empire of Byzantium, the province was Invaded by many successive races during the early centuries of the Christian era. Trajan Incorporated It with the province of Dacia, and in the next century the Goths poured into IL to be followed in turn by the Huns, the Avars and the Bulgarians.