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 | | The name has a Slavic origin and is derived from the word for beech tree; the German equivalent, das Buchenland, mostly used in poetry, means, literally, "beech land", or, more poetically, "land of beech trees". |
 | | The standard German name, die Bukowina, which was the official German-language name for the province under Austrian rule, is derived from the Slavic original, via the Polish form of the name which is exactly the same. |
 | | In the 16th century, Bukovina came under the control of the Ottoman Turks, after which it was occupied by the Russian Empire in 1769, and then by the Austrian Habsburgs in 1774. |
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