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Chernivtsi is located in the historic region of Bukovina, which is currently shared between Romania (south) and Ukraine (north). Chernivtsi is located in the southwest of Ukraine, in the eastern Carpathians, on the border between the Carpathians and the East European Plain, 40 km (25 miles) from the border with Romania.
The Czernowitz Synagogue, also called The Temple of Czernowitz (Ukrainian: Темпль, lit. 'Temple') was a former Reform Jewish synagogue located in Chernivtsi, in the Chernivtsi Oblast of Ukraine. The synagogue was built in 1873 in what was then called Czernowitz, in the Austrian Hungary Empire.
The Jewish Community in Chernivtsi was the largest Jewish Community in all of Bukovina, in what is now Romania and Ukraine. At its peak in 1941, more than 45 thousand Jews lived in Chernivtsi . The first documentation of Jews in Chernivtsi (then Cernăuți in Romanian ) comes from the year 1408, when Alexander I of Moldavia allowed Jews to ...
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 ...
The buildings originally hosted a substantial theological faculty which continued to function as such when Czernowitz became, after the end of World War I, part of Romania under the name of Cernăuți. [21] It was in the Synodal Hall that on 28 November 1918, Bukovina's union with Romania was ratified. [22]
On 14/27 October 1918, at the initiative of Sextil Pușcariu, Iancu Flondor, and Isidor Bodea, the Constituent Assembly of Bukovina established, in Czernowitz, the Romanian National Council (consisting of representatives from the Austrian parliament and from the Bukovina diet, and local political activists), which adopted a declaration to ...
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]
The Bukovina Germans (German: Bukowinadeutsche or Buchenlanddeutsche, Romanian: Germani bucovineni or nemți bucovineni), also known and referred to as Buchenland Germans, [2] or Bukovinian Germans, [3] are a German ethnic group which settled in Bukovina, a historical region situated at the crossroads of Central and Eastern Europe, during the modern period. [4]