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	Bukovina - LoveToKnow 1911
		The country, especially in its southern parts, is occupied by the offshoots of the Carpathians, which attain in the Giumaleu an altitude of 610o ft. The principal passes are the Radna Pass and the Borgo Pass.
		Bukovina had in 1900 a population of 729,921, which is equivalent to 181 inhabitants per sq.
		Bukovina was originally a part of the principality of Moldavia, whose ancient capital Suczawa was situated in this province.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Bukovina (461 words)

	history of romania - Article and Reference from OnPedia.com
		In 1775 the Austrian Empire occupied the north-western part of Moldavia, later called Bukovina, while the eastern half of the principality (called Bessarabia) was occupied in 1812 by Russia.
		Northern Bukovina and Bugeac were apportioned to the Ukrainian SSR.
		As a result of the ratification by King Carol II of the yielding of Northern Transylvania to Hungary, southern Dobrudja to Bulgaria, and Bessarabia and northern Bukovina to USSR in 1940, general Ion Antonescu was supported by the army to seize the leadership of Romania.
	www.onpedia.com /encyclopedia/history-of-romania (1800 words)

	Bukovina, a picturesque area of the Ukraine, is often referred to as "the beech-land" for the name Bukovina stems from ...
		Bukovina, a picturesque area of the Ukraine, is often referred to as "the beech-land" for the name Bukovina stems from the Ukrainian "buk" which means "beech." This ancient land of the Slavs has preserved numerous monuments of history.
		For more than four centuries, Northern Bukovina was incorporated into Old Rus state; in the 10th through 12th centuries, this area served as a stronghold on the south-west frontier of Kievan Rus; until mid-14th century it was included in the Galician-Volhynian principality.
		In the spring of 1944, Bukovina was liberated from fascist invaders.
	myworld.cv.ua /bukovina.htm (606 words)

	Bukovina (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		In the 18th century Bukovina fell under the control of the Ottoman Turks, then it was occupied by Russia in 1769, and then by the Habsburg Austrians in 1774.
		On June 28, 1940, Northern Bukovina was occupied by Soviet troops as a consequence of the Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact between Hitler and Stalin.
		Most of the historical Bukovina is now included in the county of Suceava of Romanian, the western part of Chernivtsi province of Ukraine and a small part became part of the Odessa province of Ukraine.
	bukovina.iqnaut.net (480 words)

	BUCOVINA,BUCHENLAND, BUKOWINA, BUKOVYNA
		Bukovina, on the eastern slopes of the Carpathian mountains, was once the heart of the Romanian Principality of Moldavia, with the city of Suceava being made its capital in 1388.
		Administered as a district of the province of Galicia between 1786-1849, Bukovina was granted the status of an separate crown land and duchy in 1849.
		On June 28, 1940, northern Bukovina was occupied by troops from the Soviet Union.
	members.tripod.com /Gindrich/Bukovina.htm (943 words)

	Chernivtsi Oblast - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Geographically/historically, the region is composed of northern Bukovina, northern half of the Khotin (Hotin) county of Bessarabia, and the Hertsaivskyi Raion (Herţa district), which prior to 1940 was part of the Dorohoi (presently Botoşani) county of Romania.
		At the disintegration of Austro-Hungary in 1918, General Congress of Bukovina, the Romanians-dominated local legislative body passed in Chernivtsi a decision of "an indissoluble union with the Kingdom of Romania", which was swiftly used by Romania to send in the troops and occupy the area.
		The Soviet take-over of Northern Bukovina was motivated as compensation of the belongings of Bessarabia to Romania from 1918 to 1940.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Chernivtsi_Oblast (1463 words)

	Moldova - A bit of history
		Bukovina's population however is ethnically mixed and dominantly Ukrainian in certain places.3 The new Soviet Moldavian Republic was formed on the central two thirds of Bessarabia.
		As a matter of fact, the northern and eastern boundaries of the Principaiity were fixed by the Prince of Moldavia and the King of Poland as early as 1433.
		The northern part of Bukovina annexed by the USSR in June 1940 included 71 percent of all Ukrainians in the province, whereas the southern part remaining in Romania included only 64 percent of all Bukovina Romanians.71 Molotov called Northern Bukovina a "missing" part of the Ukraine and gave it to the Ukrainian SSR.
	perso.orange.fr /dreico/ilascu.org/moldova.htm (11313 words)

	History
		In those years Bukovina was the easternmost crown land of the Austrian Empire and covered an area of 10,422 square kilometers.
		Bukovina was first mentioned in an agreement between King Ladislaus II of Poland and Sigismund of Hungary.
		Bukovina loses its provincial status and autonomy,Gura Humorului status as county city was canceled.
	humora.tripod.com /id37.html (1382 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Bukovina
		Bukovina (Буковина, Bukovyna; Romanian: Bucovina; German and Polish: Bukowina; see also other languages) is a historical region on the northern slopes of the northeastern Carpathian Mountains and the adjoining plains.
		When the Dacian Kingdom of Decebal, which included the territories just on the other side of the Carpathian Mountains from what is today Bukovina, fell to the Romans in 106, the area came under huge linguistic and cultural influence of the Roman Empire through settlement of numerous colonists and veterans of the Roman legions.
		In 1940, when the region was occupied by the Soviet Union, Chernivtsi Oblast (2/3 of which is Northern Bukovina) had a population of circa 805,000, out of which 47.5% were Ukrainians in 1940, and 28.3% were Romanians, with Germans, Jews, Poles, Hungarians and Russians comprising the rest.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Bukovina (3480 words)

	THE BUKOVINA GERMANS IN LEWIS COUNTY, WASHINGTON (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		In 1786 Bukovina became a district of the province of Galicia and in 1848-49, with a new Austrian constitution, Bukovina became an autonomous crown land and duchy.
		The Bukovina Institute is a research institution sponsored by the Federal Republic of Germany under the direction of the Ministry of Interior.
		She is affiliated and active in number of allied organizations, including the Bukovina Society of the Americas; Wandering Volhynien, Vancouver, British Columbia; the Historischer Verein-Wolhynien, Wiesentheid, Germany, and the Federation of Eastern European Family History Societies, and is on the editorial board of the journal of the American Historical Society of Germans from Russia.
	feefhs.org /bukovina/mlr-1995.html (4291 words)

	Bukovina Society of the Americas Home Page
		This is not meant to slight the history and contributions of the many other ethnic groups of Bukovina -- it is only a result of the fact that most members of the Bukovina Society are descendants of this one group, and most of the resources available to the society only discuss this group.
		A Bukovina Bibliography, compiled by Dr. Sophie A. Welisch is a valuable asset to anyone interested in Bukovina.
		This section is intended to contain pictures of the Bukovina people, their homes, tools, and other items used in their daily life activities up until 1941.
	bukovinasociety.org (1356 words)

	Jewries in Galicia and Bukovina, in Lemberg and Czernowitz.
		Galicia and Bukovina were strategically important border provinces of the Hapsburg Empire, constituting its extreme eastern frontier abutting the realm of the Russian czar as well as Prussia (subsequently the Deutsche Reich), and later as an internal border dividing the Cisleithanian (Austrian) and Transleithanian (Hungarian) halves of the empire.
		The Jews of Bukovina were a substantial force in support of German since, even in the last census in 1910, 95.6% cited German as their language of everyday use, and 54.4% of all German-speakers were members of the Jewish religious community.
		Bukovina (along with Galicia and Dalmatia) was among the most backward regions of the Austrian half of the Empire; that is to say, they were only in the initial stage of the modernization process.
	www.sbg.ac.at /ges/people/lichtblau/cape.html (9641 words)

	Regional History
		It did so because Bukovina was not only the historical cradle of the Moldavian principality but also the repository of the finest examples of Romanian art and architecture, having unique painted monastic churches of the 15th and 16th centuries.
		Northern Bukovina became part of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic under the peace treaty of 1947; the ancient Moldavian capital Suceava and the surrounding area, including the most famous of the monasteries, became part of the Romanian People's Republic.
		The northern region of Bessarabia (Khotin) and the coastal plain from the Danube to the Dniester were incorporated into Ukraine, or the Ukrainian S.S.R. During World War II, Romanians occupied Bessarabia and temporarily reorganized it as part of Romania.
	www.rootsweb.com /~ukrwgw/regionalhistory.htm (5035 words)

	Bukovina (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		'''Bukovina''' ('''Bucovina''' in Romanian; Буковина, Bukovyna in Ukrainian; Buchenland or Bukowina in German; Bukowina in Polish), on the slopes of the Carpathian mountains, comprises an historic province now split between Romania and Ukraine.
		Most of the historical Bukovina is now included in the county of Suceava and the western part of Chernivtsi region.
		When a man has Florine, who is in virgin of the sun in Peru (only way she can play the part), I don't money, gave up his place on the newspaper; and the celebrated man elected.
	bukovina.kiwiki.homeip.net (599 words)

	WHKMLA : History of the Bukovina, 1775-1815
		The Northern Bukovina got a Ruthenian (Ukrainian) population majority, the southern Bukovina a Moldavian (Romanian) population.
		At the time of the Austrian acquisition, the population of the Bukovina was largely illiterate; even many of the (impoverished) nobles were; the large majority of the population, by status, were serfs.
		The Romanian population resented the attachment of the Bukovina to Galicia.
	www.zum.de /whkmla/region/balkans/bukovina17751815.html (655 words)

	WHKMLA : History of the Bukovina, since 1919
		The Ruthenian population of the Northern Bukovina opted for integration into the new Ukrainian state; the Moldavian population of Southern Bukovina, as well as the Bukovina's German community, opted for integration into ROMANIA.
		In 1924, Romania passed centralization legislation; the Bukovina, as a territorial-administrative unit, was dissolved.
		When Germany invaded the USSR in 1941, Romania reannexed the northern Bukovina; in 1944 the Red Army liberated the northern Bukovina, which in 1947 formally was reannexed into the USSR / Ukrainian SSR.
	www.zum.de /whkmla/region/balkans/bukovinasince1919.html (255 words)

	Memo: Myron Taylor --> Miss Tully 6/12/44 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		NORTHERN BUKOVINA TO THE LINE OF RUSSIAN OCCUPATION.--Formerly belongling to Austria-Hungary, Bukovina was renounced in the treaty of St.
		The Northern part of it was occupied by Russian troops onJune 28, 1940, and formally incorporated into the Ukrainian SSR on August 2, 1940.
		The area of Northern Bukovina is approximately 2,240 square miles.
	www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu:8000 /psf/box52/t469k23.html (337 words)

	Bukovina - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Nowadays in Ukraine it is common to use the terms Chernivtsi Oblast and Bukovina interchangeably, since over 2/3 of Oblast (province) is Northern Bukovina.
		With the collapse of Austria-Hungary in 1918, the National Council of Bukovina, led by the Romanian Bukovinian politician Iancu Flondor, voted for the union with the Kingdom of Romania on November 28, with the support of the Romanian, German, Jewish, and Polish representatives, and the opposition of the Ukrainian ones.
		The Romanian 2002 census was subject to a criticism of undercounting of ethnic minorities in Romania brought up by the Ukrainian communities inside and outside Romania.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bukovina (3806 words)

	Bukovina
		Bucovina (Bukovina, Bukowina) in English this translates to Beech Wood - is located in northeastern Romania and is a region that is also located in southwestern Ukraine.
		Both Galicia (which was part of Poland before Poland was partitioned in the late 18th century) and Bukovina were in the Austro-Hungarian empire and from 1786 to 1849, Bukovina was administered as part of the province of Galicia.
		After WW II, the northern portion became a part of the USSR while the southern area was part of Romania.
	jewishwebindex.com /bukovina.htm (1149 words)

	The Balkans in WWII
		The northern part of the territory (some two-fifths of the whole) is ceded to Hungary in August 1940 by German fiat (the Second Vienna Award).
		Northern Bukovina and coastal Bessarabia are added to the Ukrainian SSR, while the rest of Bessarabia forms the Moldavian SSR.
		The remainder, enlarged by the rest of Bosnia-Hercegovina, is nominally independent, a dictatorship of Ante Pavelic’s genocidal Ustasha; supposedly part of Italy’s sphere of influence, it is in practice increasingly under the influence of Germany, whose troops are also stationed there.
	dmorgan.web.wesleyan.edu /balkans/wwtwo.htm (1681 words)

	WorldWar2.ro - Operation München - retaking Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina - 1941
		The 10th Mountain Battalion managed to enter the northern part of the city and the 16th Battalion approached the village of Atahi, the crossing point over the Dnister River used by the Soviet troops.
		The rapid advance in the northern part of the Romanian front, all the way to the Dnister River, was explainable due to the pull-back of the Soviet 12th Army following the order received by the Southwestern Front from Stavka to retreat to the 1940 frontier.
		On 21st August 1941, Antonescu became the third marshal in Romanian history, as reward for the leadership of the troops that returned Northern Bukovina and Bessarabia to Romania.
	www.worldwar2.ro /operatii/?article=5 (6616 words)

	RADIO FREE EUROPE/ RADIO LIBERTY
		Consequently, on the whole (northern and southern) territory of Transylvania, in the period before the Holocaust there were at least 192,000 and perhaps as many as 206,000 inhabitants who were considered Jews under the racist legislation of the period.
		According to Miklos (Nicolae) Goldberger, a Northern Transylvanian activist of the Central Committee of the PCR, the return of the deported figured on the FND agenda; in return, Goldberger claimed, Transylvanian Jewry had an obligation to support the FND ("Vilagossag," 20 February 1945).
		Those that fled Northern Bukovina and Bessarabia from the end of 1945 onward, following the reincorporation of those territories into the Soviet Union at the end of the war.
	www.rferl.org /reports/eepreport/2004/10/18-011004.asp (4421 words)

	Ukraine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		A heavily-forested (Bukovina is Rumanian for "beechwood") district in the eastern Carpathians, lying athwart the frontier between northern Romania and western Ukraine.
		Bukovina's population was historically a mixture of Romanians, Ukranians, Jews, Hungarians, Ruthenians and Germans.
		Northern Bukovina forms a part of the Chernivtsi oblast of the Ukraine.
	www.hostkingdom.net /ukraine.html (2984 words)

	Qwika - similar:Bukovina
		The Palace of Culture The Chernivtsi University Olha Kobylyanska street Chernivtsi Theatre Chernivtsi (Ukrainian: Чернівці; Romanian: Cernăuţi; German: Czernowitz or Tschernowitz; Polish: Czerniowce; Hungarian: Csernovic; Yiddish: Tshernovits; Russian: Черновцы́, Chernovtsy) is a city in Northern Bukovina, Ukraine, capital of the Chernivtsi Oblast.
		Old map of Bessarabia Bessarabia or Bessarabiya (Basarabia in Romanian, Besarabya in Turkish) was the name by which the Imperial Russia designated the eastern part of the principality of Moldavia annexed by Russia in 1812.
		Map of Romania with Oltenia highlighted Oltenia or Lesser Wallachia is a historical province of Romania.
	www.qwika.com /rels/Bukovina (1347 words)

	Bucovina (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Bukovina The Austrian revolution that broke out in Vienna on 13 March 1848 did not bypass this ethnically mixed, overwhelmingly agricultural region of the Habsburg m onarchy.
		In June 1848 Bukovina elected eight deputies to the constituent Austrian Reichstag.
		The Ukrainians, led by their peasant deputies and taking their cue from the Galician-based Supreme Ruthenian Council, sought to keep Bukovina, or at least Ukrainian-inhabited northern Bukovina, with Galicia (or rather, within Ukrainian-inhabited eastern Galicia, which was to be separated from Polish western Galicia).
	www.ohiou.edu /~Chastain/ac/bucovina.htm (504 words)

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