Novosofievka (Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, Ukraine)
Novosofievka (Novo-Sofievka, formerly Nikplaithal), a volost in the province of Ekaterinoslav in the Mennonite Borozenko settlement, a daughter of the Chortitza settlement, founded in 1865, with the following seven villages: Novosofievka, Felsenbach (Mariapol), Blumenfeld, Steinau, Hamburg, Neubergthal, and Hoffnungsort. Novosofievka had 2,675 acres of land and (1912) 96 inhabitants.
Bibliography
Hege, Christian and Christian Neff. Mennonitisches Lexikon. Frankfurt & Weierhof: Hege; Karlsruhe; Schneider, 1913-1967: III, 278 f.
Quiring, Walter. Die Mundart von Chortitza in Sud-Russland. Munich, 1928: 49.
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