Northern Bukovina ( Ukrainian: Pivnichna Bukovina , rum. Bucovina de Nord ) - part of Bukovina , including the Chernivtsi region of Ukraine without Khotinsky , Kelmenetsky , Sokiryansky , Novoselitsky and Hertsaevsky districts. Southern Bukovina forms the Suceava of Romania .
History
For a long time, different tribes inhabited Northern Bukovina, originally Dacians, in the IV century - Ants , Tivertsi and streets . In the X-XI century, it became part of Kievan Rus ; in the XII - the first half of the XIV century - was part of the Galician and Galician-Volyn principality . As part of the latter, the so-called Shipinskaya land was also allocated on the territory of Northern Bukovina, which in 1349 became dependent on the Polish kingdom . Subsequently, these lands became part of the Principality of Moldova .
At the end of the Russo-Turkish war of 1768-1774, the Austrian Empire , which did not take part in hostilities, invaded the northern part of Moldova, notifying the Russian command about it. Russia chose not to intervene in the conflict, which allowed Austrian diplomacy to claim the Habsburg rights to the territory of Bukovina. The Turks, who were not interested in worsening relations with Austria, had to admit this fact, although in reality they did not have the right to pay off Austria, by the lands of their vassal - the Principality of Moldova. On May 7, 1775, the Convention was signed on this subject in Constantinople.
After joining Austria-Hungary, Bukovina became the Chernivtsi district of Galicia , but in 1849 it became a separate region.
In 1867-1918, Bukovina was a duchy as part of the Cisletan part of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy, bordering Galicia in the north, Hungary and Transylvania in the west, and Bessarabia in the south and east.
Since February 1918, the Bukovina People’s Assembly in Chernivtsi supported the decision to join Northern Bukovina in the Ukrainian People’s Republic [1] . From September 11, 1918 to June 28, 1940, this territory was part of Romania , but after an ultimatum it was annexed to the USSR and transferred to the Ukrainian SSR . The Romanian authorities of the interwar period carried out a policy of systematic and rather strict Romanization towards the local Slavic population, which caused massive discontent among the local Slavic population. By a decision of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR on July 7, 1940, Northern Bukovina and Khotinshchina were merged into the Chernivtsi region of the Ukrainian SSR , to which the Hertsaevsky region was also attached, which in principle was not included in the list of claims of the Soviet Union, with a predominantly Romanian (90%) population.
In 1941-1944, Bukovina again became part of Romania. In 1944, it was again transferred to the Ukrainian SSR.