BMIR # 34

2011-10-06 18:06:14  An area of Bessarabia in Tsarist Russia was home to the only autonomous Swiss colony in history - the Colony of Chabag, or Chabo in Russian – which flourished from the early 19th Century until WWII. Over half a century later, members of the Swiss Chabag Society meet yearly to celebrate their unique heritage and share memories of ‘the old country’.