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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.
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 ...
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]
Chernivtsi Oblast (Ukrainian: Чернівецька область, romanized: Chernivetska oblast), also referred to as Chernivechchyna (Чернівеччина), is an oblast (province) in western Ukraine, consisting of the northern parts of the historical regions of Bukovina and Bessarabia.
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]
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.
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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]