Bukovina

Map of Bukovina

Bukovina (Romanian: Bucovina; Ukrainian: Буковина Bukovyna; Hungarian: Bukovina; German and Polish: Bukowina; see also other languages) is a historical region in Central Europe,^[1][2] divided between Romania and Ukraine, located on the northern slopes of the central Eastern Carpathians and the adjoining plains.

Historically part of Moldavia, the territory of what became known as Bukovina was, from 1774 to 1918, an administrative division of the Habsburg Monarchy, the Austrian Empire, and Austria-Hungary. After World War I, Romania established control over Bukovina. In 1940, the northern half of Bukovina was annexed by the Soviet Union, and nowadays is part of Ukraine.

Name

The name Bukovina came into official use in 1775 with the region's annexation from the Principality of Moldavia to the possessions of the Habsburg Monarchy, which became the Austrian Empire in 1804, and Austria-Hungary in 1867.

The official German name of the province under Austrian rule (1775–1918), die Bukowina, was derived from the Polish form Bukowina, which in turn was derived from the common Slavic form of buk, meaning beech tree (cf the Ukrainian бук [buk]; also the German Buche).^[3][4] Another German name for the region, das Buchenland, is mostly used in poetry, and means "beech land", or "the land of beech trees". In Romanian, in literary or poetic contexts, the name Țara Fagilor ("the land of beech trees") is sometimes used.

Nowadays, in Ukraine the name is unofficial, but is common when referring to the Chernivtsi Oblast as over two thirds of the oblast is the northern part of Bukovina. In Romania the term Northern Bucovina is sometimes synonymous with the entire Chernivtsi Oblast of Ukraine, while (Southern) Bucovina refers to the Suceava County of Romania (although 30% of the present day Suceava County covers territory outside of the historical Bukovina.)

In English, an alternative form is The Bukovina, increasingly an archaism, which, however, is found in older literature.

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The territory of Bukovina had been part of Moldavia since the 14th century. It was first delineated as a separate district in 1775, and was made a nominal duchy within the Austrian Empire in 1849.

Background

Bukovina within historic Moldavia over time

The Moldavian state had appeared by the mid-14th century, eventually expanding its territory all the way to the Black Sea. Bukovina and neighboring regions were the nucleus of the Moldavian Principality, with the city of Suceava as its capital from 1388 (after Baia and Siret). The name of Moldavia (Moldova) is derived from a river (Moldova River) flowing in Bukovina.

In the 15th century, Pokuttya, the region immediately to the north, became the subject of disputes between the Principality of Moldavia and the Polish Kingdom. Pokuttya was inhabited by Ruthenians (the predecessors of modern Ukrainians and Rusyns) and Hutsuls; the latter also reside in western Bukovina. In 1497 a battle took place at the Cosmin Forest (the hilly forests separating Chernivtsi and Siret valleys), at which Stephen III of Moldavia (Stephen the Great), managed to defeat the much-stronger but demoralized army of King John I Albert of Poland. The battle is known in Polish popular culture as "the battle when the knights have perished".

Suceava Fortress

In this period, the patronage of Stephen the Great and his successors on the throne of Moldavia saw the construction of the famous painted monasteries of Moldoviţa, Suceviţa, Putna, Humor, Voroneţ, Dragomirna, Arbore and others. With their renowned exterior frescoes, these monasteries remain some of the greatest cultural treasures of Romania; some of them are World Heritage Sites, part of the painted churches of northern Moldavia. Stephen also settled the first Ruthenians in Bukovina with the hope of having a loyal and more numerous population that would contribute with taxes. In Suceava, in the 16th century, two percent of the population (i.e. about 500–1000 people) was Ruthenian.

In 1513, Moldavia started to pay annual tribute to the Ottoman Empire, but remained autonomous and was governed as before by a native Voivod / Prince, also known as Domnitor or Hospodar (Lord in English).

In May, 1600 Mihai Viteazul (Michael the Brave), united the two Romanian principalities and Transylvania under his leadership.

For short periods of time (during wars), the Polish Kingdom occupied parts of northern Moldavia. However, the old border was re-established each time, as for example on 14 October 1703 the Polish delegate Martin Chometowski acknowledges "Between us and Wallachia (i.e. Moldavia) God himself set Dniester as the border" (Inter nos et Valachiam ipse Deus flumine Tyras dislimitavit).

Monument in Iași (1875) dedicated to Grigore III Ghica and Moldavia's loss of Bukovina

In the course of the Russo-Turkish War of 1768–1774, the Ottoman armies were defeated by the Russian Empire, that occupied the region during 15 December 1769 – September 1774, and previously during 14 September–October 1769. Bukovina was the reward the Habsburgs received for aiding the Russians in that war. Prince Grigore III Ghica of Moldavia protested and was prepared to take action to recover the territory, but was assassinated, and a Greek-Phanariot foreigner was put on the throne of Moldavia by the Ottomans.

Austrian Empire

The Austrian Empire occupied Bukovina in October 1774. Following the First Partition of Poland in 1772, the Austrians claimed that they needed it for a road between Galicia and Transylvania. Bukovina was formally annexed in January 1775. On 2 July 1776, at Palamutka, Austrians and Ottomans signed a border convention, Austria giving back 59 of the previously occupied villages, and remaining with 278 villages.

Coat of arms of the Duchy of Bukovina

Bukovina was a closed military district (1775–1786), then the largest district, Kreis Czernowitz (after its capital Czernowitz) of the Austrian constituent Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria (1787–1849). On 4 March 1849, Bukovina became a separate Austrian Kronland 'crown land' under a Landespräsident (not a Statthalter, as in other crown lands) and was declared the Herzogtum Bukowina (a nominal duchy, as part of the official full style of the Austrian Emperors). In 1860 it was again amalgamated with Galicia, but reinstated as a separate province once again 26 February 1861, a status that would last until 1918.^[5]

In 1849 Bukovina got a representative assembly, the Landtag (diet). The Moldavian nobility had traditionally formed the ruling class in that territory. In 1867 with the re-organisation of the Austrian Empire as the Austro-Hungarian Empire it became part of the Cisleithanian or Austrian territories of Austria-Hungary, and remained so until 1918.

Late-19th to early-20th centuries

Bukovina in 1901

Czernowitz

The 1871 and 1904 jubilees held at Putna Monastery, near the tomb of Ştefan cel Mare, have constituted tremendous moments for Romanian national identity in Bukovina. Since gaining its independence, Romania envisioned to incorporate this historic province which, as a core of Moldavian Principality, was of a great historic significance to its history and contained many prominent monuments of its art and architecture.^[6]

Despite the influx of migrants encouraged under the Austrian rule, Romanians continued to be the largest ethnic group in the province until 1880, when Ruthenians (Ukrainians) outnumbered the Romanians 5:4. According to the 1880 census there were 239,690 Ruthenians and Hutzuls, or roughly 41.5% of the population of the region, while Romanians were second with 190,005 people or 33%, a ratio that remained more or less the same until World War I. Ruthenian is an archaic name for Ukrainian, while the Hutsuls are a regional Ukrainian subgroup.

Under Austrian rule Bukovina remained ethnically mixed: predominantly Romanian in the south, Ukrainian (commonly referred to as Ruthenians in the Empire) in the north, with small numbers of Hungarian Székelys, Slovak and Polish peasants, and Germans, Poles and Jews in the towns. The 1910 census counted 800,198 people, of which: Ruthenian 38.88%, Romanian 34.38%, German 21.24% (Jews 12.86% included), Polish 4.55%, Hungarian 1.31%, Slovak 0.08%, Slovene 0.02%, Italian 0.02%, and a few Croat, Romani, Serbian, and Turkish. Romanians were still present in all settlements of the region, but their number decreased in the villages in the north. Many of Bukovina's Germans, and a few Romanians, emigrated in 19th and 20th century to North America.^[7][8][9]

In 1783, by an imperial decree of Joseph II, local Eastern Orthodox Eparchy of Bukovina with its seat in Czernowitz was placed under spiritual jurisdiction of Metropolitanate of Karlovci.^[10] Some friction appeared in time between the church hierarchy and the Romanians complaining that Old Church Slavonic was favored to Romanian, and that family names were being slavicized. In spite of Romanian-Slav frictions over the influence in the local church hierarchy, there was no Romanian-Ukrainian inter-ethnic tension, and both cultures developed in educational and public life. After the rise of Romanian nationalism in 1848, Habsburg authorities awarded additional rights to Ukrainians in an attempt to temper Romanian ambitions of independence.^[11] At the end of the 19th century, the development of Ukrainian culture in Bukovina surpassed Galicia and the rest of Ukraine with a network of Ukrainian educational facilities. and Dalmatia formed an Archbishopric, later raised to the rank of Metropolitanate

In 1873, the Eastern Orthodox Bishop of Czernowitz, who was since 1783 under the spiritual jurisdiction of Metropolitan of Karlovci, was elevated to the rank of Archbishop when new Metropolitanate of Bukovinian and Dalmatia was created. New Archbishop of Czernowitz gained supreme jurisdiction over Serbian eparchies of Dalmatia and Kotor, that also were (until then) under spiritual jurisdiction of Karlovci.

In the early 20th century, a group of scholars surrounding the Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand created a plan (that never came to pass) of United States of Greater Austria. The specific proposal was published in Aurel C. Popovici's book “Die Vereinigten Staaten von Groß-Österreich“ [The United States of Greater Austria], Leipzig, 1906. According to it, most of Bukovina (including Czernowitz) would form, with Transylvania, a Romanian state, while the north-western portion (Zastavna, Kozman, Waschkoutz, Wiznitz, Gura Putilei, and Seletin districts) would form with the bigger part of Galicia a Ukrainian state, both in a federation with 13 other states under the Austrian crown.^[12][13]

Kingdom of Romania

Romanian takeover of Bukovina
Part of the Polish–Ukrainian War
Date 11–12 November 1918 Location Bukovina, now part of Romania and Ukraine Result Romanian-Bukovinian victory Territorial changes Bukovina subsequently united with Romania on 28 November
Belligerents
West Ukrainian People's Republic	Romania Bukovina
Commanders and leaders
Yevhen Petrushevych	Ferdinand I Iancu Flondor

Demographic composition of Bukovina in 1930, with the 1940 border drawn in the centre.

In World War I, several battles were fought in Bukovina between the Austro-Hungarian, German, and Russian armies, which resulted in the Russian army being driven out in 1917.

With the collapse of Austria-Hungary in 1918, both the local Romanian National Council and the Ukrainian National Council based in Galicia claimed the region. A Constituent Assembly on 14/27 October 1918 formed an Executive Committee, to whom the Austrian governor of the province handed power. After an official request by Iancu Flondor, Romanian troops swiftly moved in to take over the territory, against Ukrainian protest.^[14] Although local Ukrainians attempted to incorporate parts of northern Bukovina into the short-lived West Ukrainian People's Republic, this attempt was defeated by Polish and Romanian troops.

Under the protection of Romanian troops, the Romanian Council summoned a General Congress of Bukovina for 15/28 November 1918, where 74 Romanians, 13 Ruthenians, 7 Germans, and 6 Poles were represented (this is the linguistic composition, and Jews were not recorded as a separate group). Popular enthusiasm swept the whole region, and a large number of people gathered in the city to wait for the resolution of the Congress.^[15][16]

The Congress elected the Romanian Bukovinian politician Iancu Flondor as chairman, and voted for the union with the Kingdom of Romania, with the support of the Romanian, German, and Polish representatives; the Ukrainians did not support this.^[17] The reasons stated were that, until its takeover by the Habsburg in 1775, Bukovina was the heart of the Principality of Moldavia, where the gropniţele domneşti (voivods' burial sites) are located, and dreptul de liberă hotărâre de sine (right of self-determination).^[18] Romanian control of the province was recognized internationally in the Treaty of St. Germain in 1919.

During the interwar period, Romanian authorities oversaw a programme of Rumanization aiming its assimilationist policies at the Ukrainian population of the region. The Romanian language was introduced into ethnic minority schools in 1923, and, by 1926, all public Ukrainian schools in Bukovina were closed (private schools still continue to exist).^[17]

At the same time, Ukrainian enrolment at the Cernăuţi University fell from 239 out of 1671, in 1914, to 155 out of 3,247, in 1933, while simultaneously Romanian enrolment there increased several times to 2,117 out of 3,247.^[19] In part this was due to attempts to switch to Romanian as the primary language of university instruction, but chiefly to the fact that the university was one of only five in Romania, and was considered prestigious.

In the decade following 1928, as Romania tried to improve its relations with the Soviet Union, Ukrainian culture was given some limited means to redevelop, though these gains were sharply reversed in 1938.

According to the 1930 Romanian census, Romanians made up 44.5% of the total population of Bukovina, and Ukrainians (including Hutsuls) 29.1%.^[20] In the northern part of the region, however, Romanians made up only 32.6% of the population, with Ukrainians slightly outnumbering Romanians.

Second World War

Bukovina as divided in 1940: Soviet to the north, Romanian to the south

Following the Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact, the June 1940 Soviet Ultimatum demanded from Romania the northern part of Bukovina, a region bordering Galicia (the latter annexed by the Soviet Union at 1939 Poland's partition in 1939). The Soviet demand for Bukovina surprised Nazi Germany, though it did not formally oppose it. In the first Soviet ultimatum addressed to the Romanian government, the partly Ukrainian populated northern Bukovina was "demanded" as a minor "reparation for the great loss produced to the Soviet Union and Bassarabia's population by twenty-two years of Romanian domination of Bassarabia". On 28 June 1940, the Romanian government evacuated Northern Bukovina, and the Red Army moved in, with the new Soviet-Romanian border being traced less than 20 kilometres (12 miles) north of Putna Monastery.

In 1940, Chernivtsi Oblast (⅔ of which is Northern Bukovina) had a population of circa 805,000, out of which 47.5% were Ukrainians and 28.3% were Romanians, with Germans, Jews, Poles, Hungarians and Russians comprising the rest. The strong Ukrainian presence was the official motivation for inclusion of the region into the Ukrainian SSR and not into the newly formed Moldavian SSR. Whether the region would have been included in the Ukrainian SSR, if the commission presiding over the division had been led by someone else than the Ukrainian communist leader Nikita Khrushchev, remains a matter of debate among scholars. In fact, some territories with a mostly Romanian population (e.g. Hertza region) were allotted to the Ukrainian SSR.

Administrative map of the Governorate of Bukovina as of May 1942.

In the course of the 1941 attack on the Soviet Union by the Axis forces, the Romanian Third Army led by General Petre Dumitrescu (operating in the north) and the Fourth Romanian Army (operating in the south) re-occupied Northern Bukovina, as well as Hertza, and Bassarabia, during June–July 1941. However, then it continued the war, and occupied during 1941–1944 proper Soviet territories in the south of Ukrainian SSR—the Odessa Oblast, and parts of Mykolaiv and Vinnytsia oblasts.

The Axis invasion of northern Bukovina was catastrophic for its Jewish population, as conquering Nazi soldiers immediately began massacring its Jewish residents. Surviving Jews were forced into ghettoes to await deportation to work camps in Transnistria where 57,000 had arrived by 1941. Bukovina's remaining Jews were spared from certain death when it was liberated by Soviet forces in February, 1944. In all, about half of Bukovina's entire Jewish population had perished.^[21]

The return of Soviet rule was a calamity for northern Bukovina's Romanian residents. According to NKVD orders, tens of thousands of Romanian families were deported to Siberia during this period,^[22] with 12,191 people deported on 2 August 1940 (less than a month after the occupation),^[22] and another 2,057 persons deported to Siberia in December 1940, together with their families.^[23] The largest action took place on 13 June 1941, when about 13,000 people were deported to Siberia and Kazakhstan.^[24]

Until the repatriation convention of 15 April 1941, NKVD troops killed hundreds of Romanian peasants of Northern Bukovina as they tried to cross the border into Romania in order to escape from Soviet authorities. This culminated on 1 April 1941 with the Fântâna Albă massacre.

Almost the entire German population of northern Bukovina was coerced to resettle in 1940–1941 to the parts of Poland then occupied by Nazi Germany, during 15 September 1940 – 15 November 1940, after this area was occupied by the Soviet Union. About 45,000 ethnic Germans had left Northern Bukovina by November 1940.^[25]

After the war

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Northern Bukovina within Ukraine

In 1944 the Red Army drove the Axis forces out and re-established the Soviet control over the territory. Romania was forced to formally cede the northern part of Bukovina to the USSR by the 1947 Paris peace treaty. The territory became part of the Ukrainian SSR as Chernivtsi Oblast (province). After the war the Soviet government deported or killed about 41,000 Romanians.^[26] As a result of killings and mass deportations, entire villages, mostly inhabited by Romanians, were abandoned (Albovat, Frunza, I.G.Duca, Buci—completely erased, Prisaca, Tanteni and Vicov—destroyed to a large extent).^[27] Men of military age (and sometimes above) were conscripted into the Soviet Army. That did not protect them, however, from being arrested and deported for being "anti-Soviet elements".

As a reaction, partisan groups (composed of both Romanians and Ukrainians) began to operate against the Soviets in the woods around Chernivtsi, Crasna and Codrii Cosminului.^[28] In Crasna (in the former Storozhynets county) villagers attacked Soviet soldiers who were sent to "temporarily resettle" them, since they feared deportation. This resulted in dead and wounded among the villagers, who had no firearms.

Spring 1945 saw the formation of transports of Polish repatriates who (voluntarily or by coercion) had decided to leave. Between March 1945 and July 1946, 10,490 inhabitants left northern Bukovina for Poland, including 8,140 Poles, 2,041 Jews and 309 of other nationalities.

Overall, between 1930 (last Romanian census) and 1959 (first Soviet census), the population of northern Bukovina decreased by 31,521 people. According to official data from those two censuses, the Romanian population had decreased by 75,752 people, and the Jewish population by 46,632, while the Ukrainian and Russian populations increased by 135,161 and 4,322 people, respectively.

After 1944, the human and economic connections between the northern (Soviet) and southern (Romanian) parts of Bukovina were severed. While the northern part is the nucleus of the Ukrainian Chernivtsi Oblast, the southern part is tightly integrated with the other Romanian historic regions.

In Romania, 28 November is a holiday observed as Bucovina Day.^[29]

Geography

The territory of the Romanian (or Southern) Bukovina is located in northeastern Romania and it is part of the Suceava County (plus three localities in Botoșani County), whereas the Ukrainian (or Northern) Bukovina is located in western Ukraine and it is part of the Chernivtsi Oblast.

Population

Historical population

Demographic composition of Bukovina in 1910

According to the 1775 Austrian census, the province had a total population of 86,000 (this included 56 villages which were later returned to Moldova). The census only recorded social status and some ethno-religious groups (Jews, Armenians, Gypsies, German colonists). In 1919, I. Nistor claimed that Romanians constituted an overwhelming majority in 1774, roughly 64,000 (85%) of the 75,000 total population. Meanwhile, about 8,000 (10%) were Ruthenians/Ukrainians and 3,000 (4%) other ethnic groups.^[30] On the other hand, an anthroponimical analysis of the Russian census of the population of Moldova in 1774 asserted a population of 68,700 people in 1774, out of which 40,920 (59.6%) Romanians, 22,810 Ruthenians and Hutsuls (33.2%) and 7.2% Jewish, Rroma and Armenians.^[31]

During the 19th century the Austrian Empire policies encouraged the influx of many immigrants such as Germans, Poles, Jews, Hungarians, and Ukrainians (at that time referred to as Ruthenians) from Galicia, as well as Romanians from Transylvania.^[32] Official censuses in the Austrian Empire (later Austria-Hungary) did not record ethno-linguistic data until 1850-1851. The 1857 and 1869 censuses omitted ethnic or language-related questions. 'Familiar language spoken' was not recorded again until 1880. The Austrian census of 1850-1851 which for the first time recorded data regarding languages spoken, shows 48.50% Romanians and 38.07% Ukrainians^[33] Subsequent Austrian censuses between 1880 and 1910 reveal a Romanian population stabilizing around 33% and a Ukrainian population around 40%.

Based on the above anthroponimical estimate for 1774 as well as subsequent official censuses, the ethnic composition of Bukovina changed in the years after 1775 when the Austrian Empire occupied the region. The population of Bukovina increased steadily, primarily through immigration, which Austrian authorities encouraged in order to develop the economy.^[34] H.F. Müller gives the 1840 population used for purposes of military conscription as 339,669.^[35] According to Alecu Hurmuzaki, by 1848 55% of the population was Romanian. At the same time, the Ukrainian population rose to 108,907 in 1848 and the Jewish population surged from 526 in 1774 to 11,600 in 1848.^[30]

In 1843 the Ruthenian language was recognized, along with the Romanian language, as 'the language of the people and of the Church in Bukovina'.^[32]

According to estimates and censuses data, the population of Bukovina was:

Note: e-estimate; c-census

Current population

Ethnic divisions in modern Bukovina with Ukrainians, Romanians and Russians areas depicted in light yellow, green, and red respectively. The Moldovans, counted separately in the Ukrainian census, are included in this map as Romanians.

The present demographic situation in Bukovina hardly resembles the one of the times of the Austrian Empire. The northern (Ukrainian) and southern (Romanian) parts became significantly dominated by their Ukrainian and Romanian majorities, respectively, with the representation of other ethnic groups being decreased significantly.

According to the Ukrainian Census (2001) data,^[43] the Ukrainians represent about 75% (689,100) of the population of Chernivtsi Oblast, which is the closest, although not an exact, approximation of the territory of the historic Northern Bukovina. The census also identified a fall in the Romanian and Moldovan populations to 12.5% (114,600) and 7.3% (67,200), respectively. Russians are the next largest ethnic group with 4.1%, while Poles, Belarusians, and Jews comprise the rest 1.2%. The languages of the population closely reflect the ethnic composition, with over 90% within each of the major ethnic groups declaring their national language as the mother tongue (Ukrainian, Romanian, and Russian, respectively).

The fact that Romanians and Moldovans were presented as separate categories in the census results, has been criticized by the Romanian Community of Ukraine - Interregional Union, which complains that this old Soviet-era practice, results in the Romanian population being undercounted, as being divided between Romanians and Moldovans.

The Romanians mostly inhabit the southern part of Chernivtsi region, being the majority in Hertsaivskyi Raion, while they form the majority with Moldovans in the Ukrainian plurality Hlybotskyi Raion. Moldovans are the majority in Novoselytsia Raion. In the other eight districts, and the city of Chernivtsi, Ukrainians are in the majority.

The southern, or Romanian Bukovina has a significant Romanian majority (94.8%), largest minority group being the Romani people (1.9%) and Ukrainians, who make up 0.9% of the population (2011 census).

Gallery

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  Putna Monastery
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  Cârlibaba
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  Bukovina Village Museum, Suceava
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  Vatra Dornei
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  Ciumârna (Palma) Pass
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  Valea Putnei
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  Daniil Sihastru hermitage cave
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  Sucevița Monastery
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  Tihuța Pass – connecting Bukovina and Transylvania
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  Chernivtsi (Romanian: Cernăuți)

Cities and towns

Northern Bukovina

• Berehomet (Romanian: Berhomete pe Siret)
• Boyany (Romanian: Boian)
• Chornivka (Romanian: Cernauca)
• Chernivtsi (Romanian: Cernăuţi, German: Czernowitz)
• Hlyboka (Romanian: Adâncata)
• Kitsman (Romanian: Cozmeni; German: Kotzman)
• Krasnoyilsk (Romanian: Crasna)
• Luzhany (Romanian: Lujeni)
• Mikhalcha (Romanian: Mihalcea)
• Nepolokivtsi (Romanian: Nepolocăuţi/Grigore-Ghica Vodă)
• Novoselytsia (Romanian: Suliţa-Târg/Suliţa Nouă/Nouă Suliţi)
• Putyla (Romanian: Putila)
• Sadhora (Romanian: Sădăgura; Polish: Sadagóra)
• Storozhynets (Romanian: Storojineţ)
• Vashkivtsi (Romanian: Văşcăuţi; German: Waschkautz)
• Voloka, Hlybotskyi Raion (Romanian: Voloca; Ukrainian: Волока)
• Vyzhnytsia (Romanian: Vijniţa; German: Wiznitz)
• Zastavna (Romanian: Zastavna)

Southern Bukovina

• Cajvana (Ukrainian: Кажване, Kazhvane)
• Câmpulung Moldovenesc (Ukrainian: Кимпулунґ, Kympulung; historic Довгопілля, Dovhopillya)
• Frasin (Ukrainian: Фрасин, Frasyn)
• Gura Humorului (Ukrainian: Ґура-Гумора, Gura-Humora)
• Milişăuţi (Ukrainian: Милишівці, Mylyshivtsi)
• Rădăuţi (Ukrainian: Радівці, Radivtsi; German: Radautz)
• Siret (Ukrainian: Сирет, Syret)
• Solca (Ukrainian: Солька, Sol'ka)
• Suceava (Ukrainian: Сучава, Suchava; historic Сочава, Sochava)
• Vatra Dornei (Ukrainian: Ватра Дорни, Vatra Dorny)
• Vicovu de Sus (Ukrainian: Верхнє Викове, Verkhnye Vykove)

See also

• Moldavian Principality
• Galicia (Central Europe)
• Bukovina Germans
• Székelys of Bukovina

Notes

References

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External links

Wikivoyage has a travel guide for Bukovina.

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Wikisource has the text of the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica article Bukovina.

Romanian Wikisource has original text related to this article: La Bucovina (Mihai Eminescu original poem in Romanian)

• "Chernivtsi oblast (region) info page". Travel information on Ukrainian(Northern) Bukovina. 
• Ukrainian Census results (English)/(Ukrainian)
• City of Chernivtsy (Ukrainian)
• The Metropolitanate of Moldavia and Bukovina (Romanian Orthodox Church) (Romanian)
• Soviet Ultimatum Notes (University of Bucharest site) at the Wayback Machine (archived November 13, 2007)
• "detailed article about WWII and aftermath". Archived from the original on 2007-11-13. Retrieved 2006-04-17.  CS1 maint: BOT: original-url status unknown (link)

Historical regions in Romania
Banat (1918–)a	Banatf
Dobruja (1878–)	Northern Dobruja Southern Dobruja (1913–16; 1919–40)
Moldavia (1859–)b	Bessarabia (1918–40; 1941–44)c Bukovinad Hertza (1859–1940; 1941–44) Western Moldavia
Transylvania (1918–)ae	Crișanaf Maramureșg
Wallachia (1859–)b	Muntenia Oltenia
aDe jure since 1920 bDe jure since 1862 cCahul, Bolgrad and Ismail in Romania (1859–78) dSouthern Bukovina in Romania (1918–); Northern Bukovina in Romania (1918–40; 1941–44) eNorthern Transylvania in Hungary (1940–44) fOnly the eastern part gOnly the southern part