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Bukovina [nb 1] is a historical region at the crossroads of Central and Eastern Europe. [1] The region is located on the northern slopes of the central Eastern Carpathians and the adjoining plains, today divided between Romania and Ukraine.
Romania in 1940 with Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina highlighted in orange-red Soviet military parade in Chișinău on July 4, 1940. As Romania agreed to satisfy Soviet territorial demands, the second plan was immediately put into action, with the Red Army immediately moving into Bessarabia and north Bukovina on the morning of 28 June.
12 November - The Romanian National Council establishes a new government in Bukovina under Flondor's presidency. [1] 28 November - The Romanian National Council, together with Polish and German representatives, convokes the General Congress of Bukovina which requests the union of Bukovina with Romania. [1] [6]
After this, Romania joined the Axis powers following forced territorial adjustments with Hungary and Bulgaria. This alliance would invade the Soviet Union on 22 June 1941, [1] [2] although Romanian military operations only began on 2 July. After a few weeks, Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina were recaptured and integrated
The Duchy of Bukovina (German: Herzogtum Bukowina or Herzogtum Buchenland; Romanian: Ducatul Bucovinei; Ukrainian: Герцогство Буковина, romanized: Hertsohstvo Bukovyna) was a constituent land of the Austrian Empire from 1849 and a Cisleithanian crown land of Austria-Hungary from 1867 until 1918.
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]
Cernăuți County was a county of Romania, in Bukovina, with the capital city at Cernăuți.The area was incorporated into the Soviet Union in 1940 (after the Soviet occupation of Northern Bukovina) and again in 1944 (after the Soviet occupation of Romania), and has been part of Ukraine since 1991.
Suceava County (Romanian pronunciation: [suˈtʃe̯ava]) is a county (Romanian: județ) of Romania.Most of its territory lies in the southern part of the historical region of Bukovina, while the remainder forms part of Western Moldavia proper.