Sadhora
part of Chernivtsi in Chernivtsi Oblast, Ukraine
Sadhora (Ukrainian: Садгора; German: Sadagora; Polish: Sadagóra; Romanian: Sadagura; Yiddish: סאדיגורא Sadigora, also Sadagura and Sadiger) is a settlement in Ukraine, now the Sadhirskyi District of Chernivtsi city, which is located 6 km from the city center. Previously, it was an independent town.
History
The settlement was established in 1770 by former Saxon and Polish official of Danish origin and then commander-in-chief of the Russian army in Moldavia and Wallachia, Baron Piotr Mikołaj Gartenberg Sadogórski, and named Sadogóra after him. During the Russo-Turkish War of 1768–1774, he established a mint in a formerly wooded area by a river to mint coins to make payments for his soldiers. Beginning in 1771, the coins that were minted at Sadogóra displayed the coats of arms of both Moldavia and Wallachia on the same side. The mint was closed down at the end of the war, in 1774. The local Catholic church of Saint Michael was founded in 1778. A chapel of the dissolved nunnery from Revna was moved to Sadogóra in 1787.
Sadhora is located in Bukovina, a region which was part of the Principality of Moldavia until the 1770s when it was conquered by the Habsburg monarchy, becoming part of the Duchy of Bukovina under the Austrian Empire starting in 1849, then becoming an Austrian "crownland" from 1867 until the end of World War I, after which it was part of Romania in 1918–1940. According to the 1930 Romanian census, the population was 63.1% Ukrainian, 16.3% Jewish, 14.9% Polish, 4.0% Romanian and 1.1% German.
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