Chortitza Colony (Khortytskyi District, Zaporizhzhia) was a volost, a subdivision of the Yekaterinoslav uezd within the Yekaterinoslav Governorate. During...
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the Chortitza Colony in modern Ukraine near Zaporizhia (itself originally of Prussian origins) to settlements in Canada. Theologically, Old Colony Mennonites...
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Transportation from 1979 to 1982. Henry Kroeger was born in Rosenthal, Chortitza Colony, Yekaterinoslav Governorate. (Now Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine) to Helena...
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settled during the years 1836 to 1852 by 149 landless families from the Chortitza Colony. The settlement was located on the Bodni, a small tributary of the...
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Abraham Isaak (redirect from Aurora Colony (California))
He was raised in the Mennonite village of Rosenthal, part of the Chortitza Colony, but later settled in the U.S. Abraham Isaak was the second of 12 children...
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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...
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company that produces alcoholic beverages, in particular [horilka]s Chortitza Colony, a Russian Mennonite community located at Khortytsia Island Mennonite...
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Russian Mennonites (section Old Colony)
accepted this invitation, establishing Chortitza on the Dnieper River as their first colony in 1789. A second larger colony, Molotschna, was founded in 1804...
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Mennonites (section Old Colony Mennonites)
so-called Russian Mennonites that originated in the Chortitza Colony in Russia, including the Chortitza, Reinlander, and Sommerfelder groups, which are now...
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colonists sold Khortytsia Island to the Alexandrovsk city council (see Chortitza Colony). In 1965, Khortytsia Island was "proclaimed a historical and cultural...
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