Northern Bucovina
| Romanian takeover of Bukovina | |||||||||
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| Part of the Polish–Ukrainian War | |||||||||
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 West Ukrainian People's Republic
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 Romania
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Yevhen Petrushevych
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Ferdinand I
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Bukovina (Romanian: Bucovina; German: Buchenland; Polish: Bukowina; Ukrainian: Буковина Bukovyna; see also other languages) is a historical region in Central Europe, 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 currently is part of Ukraine.
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.
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