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"Czarnowce" on a 1639 Beauplan map centered on Pokuttia; placed in "Wallachia or Little Moldavia", bottom right. Chernivtsi (Ukrainian: Чернівці, pronounced [tʃerniu̯ˈtsi] ⓘ; Romanian: Cernăuți, pronounced [tʃernəˈutsʲ] ⓘ; see also other names) is a city in southwestern Ukraine on the upper course of the Prut River.
In 2011, an anthropological analysis of the Russian census of the population of Moldavia in 1774 asserted a population of 68,700 people in 1774, out of which 40,920 (59.6%) were Romanians, 22,810 Ruthenians and Hutsuls (33.2%), and 7.2% Jews, Roma, and Armenians. [31]
10 November - The Ukrainian National Committee together with its military supporters retreat from Czernowitz. [3] 11 November - Czernowitz (claimed by the West Ukrainian People's Republic) is seized by the Romanian Army. [1] [5] [3] 12 November - The Romanian National Council establishes a new government in Bukovina under Flondor's presidency. [1]
Vorwärts ('Forward') was a German-language socialist daily newspaper published from Czernowitz/Cernăuți, Bukovina (in Austria-Hungary, later in Romania; present-day Chernivtsi, Ukraine). [1] [2] [3] The newspaper was founded in 1899 with the name Volkspresse ('People's Press'). [4] [5] During its initial phase, Volkspresse was published ...
The Bukovina District (German: Bukowiner Kreis or Kreis Bukowina), also known as the Chernivtsi District (German: Kreis Czernowitz), was an administrative division – a Kreis (lit. ' circle ' ) – of the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria [ 1 ] within the Habsburg monarchy (from 1804 the Austrian Empire ) in Bukovina , annexed from Moldavia .
The Great Synagogue in Chernivtsi, an Ashkenazi congregation, was completed in 1853. [2] In 1872 a split occurred between the Reform and Orthodox communities living in Czernowitz; and the following year the Reform congregation began construction of The Temple of Czernowitz, designed by Julian Zachariewicz [3] in the Moorish Revival style. By ...
In 1782, following the incorporation of Bukovina into the Habsburg monarchy, the seat of the Moldavian Eastern Orthodox Bishops of Rădăuți was moved to Chernivtsi (then known as Czernowitz). The province's military administration built a residence in haste for bishop Dosoftei Herescu . The edifice, completed in 1783, bore a shabby aspect ...
The region was temporarily recovered by Romania as an ally of Nazi Germany after the latter invaded the Soviet Union in 1941, but retaken by the Soviet army in 1944. [2] Bukovina's population was historically ethnically diverse. Today, Bukovina's northern half is the Chernivtsi Oblast of Ukraine, while the southern part is Suceava County of ...