Imagine iff the world looked like Bucovina

Added: Sep 17, 2008

From: saftaromanul

Duration: 5:59

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. Bukovina was populated by Cucuteni-Trypillian culture of early settlers (4500 BC 3000 BC), which was overrun, around 2000 BC, by the migration of Indo-Europeans. - 2nd millennium BC, it was inhabited by the Dacian tribes - 70 BC to 44 BC, the region was incorporated in the Dacian polity of Burebista. - in 106, the area came under linguistic and cultural influence of the Roman Empire. - In 3rd century (240s270s) the region was plundered by the Goths, in the 4th century by the Huns (370s380s), and in the 6th century (560s570s) by the Avars. - 6th century, Slavic populations entered the region and influenced the locals - Bukovina was included in a Vlach polity, which had its center at Dorohoi , then at Siret . The villages of the Campulung Valley formed a "republic" that preserved its autonomy even under the Principality of Moldavia. -Bukovina and neighboring regions were the nucleus of the Moldavian Principality, with the city of Suceava as its capital from 1388 In the 15th century, Pokuttya, became the subject of disputes between the Moldavian Principality and the Polish Kingdom, and in 1497 a battle took place at the Cosmin Forest , at which Stephen III of Moldavia managed to defeat the much-stronger but demoralized army of King John I Albert of Poland, known in Polish popular culture as "the battle when the knights have perished". In this period, the patronage of Stephen III of Moldavia 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. In 1538, the Moldavian Principality came under the control of the Ottoman Turks, but it remained autonomous .The Austrian Empire occupied Bukovina in October 1774. According to the 1775 Austrian census, the province had a population of 86,000, made up mostly of Romanians Under Austrian rule . The 1910 census counted 800 198 people, of which: Ruthenian 38.88%, Romanian 34.38%, German 21.24%, Jews 12.86%, Polish 4.55%, Hungarian 1.31%, Slovak 0.08%, Slovene 0.02%, Italian 0.02%, and a few Armenian, Croat, Gypsy, Serbian, and Turkish. Many of Bukovina's Germans, and a few Romanians, emigrated in 19th and 20th century to North America. in 1918 Bucovina becamed independent and united with Romania the northern part of the region, which subsequently was ceded to the USSR following the June 1940 Soviet Ultimatum, Romanians made up only 32.6% of the population, while Ukrainians slightly outnumbered Romanians. Rumanians from northen Bucovina where deported and killed . In the course of the 1941 the romanian Third Army led by General Petre Dumitrescu and the Romanian Fourth Army re-occupied Northern Bukovina, Hertsa district, and Bassarabia. According to NKVD orders, tens of thousands of Romanian families were deported to Siberia and Kazachstan 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. In July 1941, the new Romanian military government counted at least 36,0000 missing persons. 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. 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) Men of military age (and sometimes above) were conscripted into the Soviet Army. Romanian population had decreased by 75,7520 people, and the Jewish population by 46,632, while the Ukrainian and Russian populations increased by 135,161 and 4,322 people. This dramatic change in Bukovina's ethnic composition changed the proportion of Romanians from an overwhelming absolute majority (more than 85% before 1774) to a relative majority (40.5% in 1869) and then a minority (33.4% in 1880). Today romanians make up to 4-6 % of the population in northen Bucovina (Ukraine) , wile the shouthern part of Bucovina ( Romania ) has 96 % rumanians

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Tags: bucovina  cernauti  moldova  moldovita  putna  romania  secu  sihastria  suceava  sucevita  voronet 

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