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| Total population | |
|---|---|
| 33,302 | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
| Odesa Oblast, Kherson Oblast, Zaporizhzhia Oblast, Kyiv | |
| Languages | |
| German, Ukrainian, Russian |
The Black Sea Germans (German: Schwarzmeerdeutsche; Russian: черноморские немцы, romanized: chernomorskiye nemtsy; Ukrainian: чорноморські німці, romanized: chornomors'ku nimtsi) are ethnic Germans who left their homelands (starting in the late-18th century, but mainly in the early-19th century at the behest of Emperor Alexander I of Russia, r. 1801–1825), and settled in territories off the north coast of the Black Sea, mostly in the territories of the southern Russian Empire (including modern-day Ukraine).[1][2][3]
Black Sea Germans are distinct from similar groups of settlers (Crimean Goths, the Bessarabia Germans, Crimea Germans, Dobrujan Germans, Russian Mennonites, Volga Germans, and Volhynian Germans), who are separate chronologically, geographically and culturally, but not mutually exclusive groups.
- ^ "Germans from Russia Heritage". North Dakota State University. Archived from the original on 8 August 2013. Retrieved 18 March 2014.
- ^ Long, James W., 1942- (1988). From privileged to dispossessed: the Volga Germans, 1860-1917. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. p. xiv. ISBN 0803228813. OCLC 17385222.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ Koch, Fred C. (1977). The Volga Germans : in Russia and the Americas, from 1763 to the present. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press. p. 2. ISBN 0271012366. OCLC 2425321.