• Region: Black Sea
• Area: Bessarabia
• District: Akkerman
• Rayon:
• Founded: 1860
• Religion: Evangelical Lutheran & Catholic
• Location: 50 km from city of Akkermann and 135 km from capital Kischinev; D-9 Stumpp Map
• Longitute and Latitude:
• Parish: Arzis
• German Name: Demir-Chadschi
• Russian Name: Selonaja Balka
• Ukrainian Name: Demir Hadji

Remarks
Original settlers came from Friedenstal, Gnadental, Neu Elft and Arzis

Books:
From Catherine to Khruschev by Dr. Adam Giesinger
Homeland Book of the Bessarabian Germans by Pastor Albert Kern [page 95]

Church Records:

Pioneer Settler Surnames:
Renz, Hoffmann, Gerstenberger, Bodamer, Schulz, Enßlen, Schmidt, Hehn, Fuchs, Veygel, Schimke. Others: Hornung, Jergentz, Gross, Hägele, Lewinsky, Bondarenko, Gallas, Allmendinger.

War Records

• EWZ Records
• DAI Bessarabia Village Reports
• DAI Miscellaneous Reports
• Evacuation from Bessarabia & Bukovina
• Bessarabia Koblenz Index Derivative

Supplemental Information

• Bessarabia Head of Household Index
• Bessarabia Surnames Origins Index
• Heimatbuch der Dobrudscha Deutschen Surname Index
• Christian Fiess Indices

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