however, adjacent to the new official locality, a certain moldavian colony had already existed, which by the end of 18th century was an independent settlement known under the name of moldavanka. legend has it that the settlement predates odessa by about thirty years and asserts that the locality was founded by romanians who came to build the fortress of yeni dunia for the ottomans and eventually settled in the area in the late 1760s, right next to the settlement of khadjibey (since 1795 odessa proper), on what later became the primorskii boulevard.