Bukovina is a historical region located on the northern slopes of the central Eastern Carpathians and the adjoining plains, today divided between Romania and Ukraine. The name of this region first appears in a document issued by the Voivode of Moldavia Roman I Mușat on 30 March 1392. First traces of human occupation date back to the Paleolithic. The area was first settled by Trypillian culture tribes, in the Neolithic. It was then settled by now the extinct tribes of Dacians/Getae and Thracian/Scythian. Under Austrian rule, Bukovina was ethnically mixed: Romanians were predominant in the south, Ukrainians (commonly referred to as Ruthenians in the Empire) in the north, with small numbers of Hungarian Székelys, Slovak, and Polish peasants, and Germans, Poles and Jews in the towns. This region has a long and complicated history. (Wikipedia)
Loading contexts...
