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    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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  • 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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  • Transportation from 1979 to 1982. Henry Kroeger was born in Rosenthal, Chortitza Colony, Yekaterinoslav Governorate. (Now Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine) to Helena...
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  • 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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    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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    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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