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2 unusual facts about Bukovina


Shantel

His grandparents on the maternal side were from the Romanian part of Bukovina.

Shlomo Artzi

His father, Yitzhak Artzi, in his youth Zionist activist in Bukovina, Romania, was later a member of the Knesset, his maternal grandmother, was the sister of Rabbi Meir Shapiro.


Administrative divisions of Romania

After modern Romania was formed in 1859 through the union of Wallachia and rump Moldavia, and then extended in 1918 through the union of Transylvania, as well as Bukovina and Bessarabia (parts of Moldavia temporarily acquired by the Habsburgs, 1775–1918, respectively the Russian Tsars, 1812–1917), the administrative division was modernized using the French departments system as an example.

Boian, Alberta

The community was named for Boian, the Romanian village in Bukovina, from where the settlers originated.

Castle Dracula

The Hotel Castel Dracula, located in Piâtra Fântânele in the Borgo Pass, which promotes itself as being constructed at the place of Stoker's Castle, at least is located at the point where Harker left the post carriage from Bistritz to Bukovina to be picked up by the Count; their route must have lead over the former watchpost of Dornișoara towards the Kelemen peaks in the south-east.

Cheremosh Ukrainian Dance Company

Named after the Cheremosh River that separates the regions of Bukovyna and Halychyna in Ukraine, the company easily matches the river's boisterousness and vivacity.

Chernivtsi Oblast

The oblast was organized out of the northeast part of Ţinutul Suceava of Kingdom of Romania, joining parts of three historical regions: northern half of Bukovina, northern half of the Hotin County county of Bessarabia, and Hertza region, which was part of the Dorohoi county (presently Botoşani County) of proper Moldavia.

Jakub Szela

Jakub Szela (was born 1787, Smarżowa, in Galicia - died 1862 or 1866, Vicşani, in Bukovina, now Romania) was a Polish leader of a pro-Austrian peasant uprising against the Polish gentry in Galicia in 1846; directed against manorial property and oppression (for example, the manorial prisons) and rising against serfdom; scores of manors were attacked and their inhabitants murdered.

Jewish Social Democratic Party

Except for its organization in Galicia and Bukovina, the party also had presence (at warying times) in Vienna, New York, Antwerp and Bielsk.

Lawrence Norfolk

The third novel, In the Shape of a Boar, juxtaposes the flight of a Bukovina Jew in World War II with the legend of Atalanta in Calydon.

Leonīds Breikšs

After the death in March 1940 Edvarts Virza, in an unstable Latvian political environment that was highly aware of the aggressive powers to both its east and west, Soviet forces began to enforce the secret parts of the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact on its neighbours, annexing: Estonia; Lithuania,; Bessarabia; Northern Bukovina; and the Hertza region.

Maximilian Maksakov

Maksimilian Karlovich Maksakov (Максимилиа′н Ка′рлович Макса′ков, also known as Max Maksakov, real name Max Schwartz; 1869, Chernivtsi, Bukovina, Austria-Hungary — March 26, 1936, Moscow, USSR) — was an Austrian/Russian opera singer (dramatic baritone) and music teacher.

Metropolitanate of Karlovci

In the second half of the 18th century, the Metropolitanate of Karlovci included a large territory that stretched from the Adriatic Sea to Bukovina and from Danube and Sava to Upper Hungary.

Minorities of Romania

During the war that percentage was halved, largely by the loss of the border areas of Bessarabia and northern Bukovina (to the former Soviet Union — now Moldova and Ukraine), Black Sea islands (to the former Soviet Union — now Ukraine) and southern Dobrudja (to Bulgaria), as well as by the postwar flight or deportation of ethnic Germans.

Naftali Herz Imber

He began writing poetry at the age of 10 and several years later received an award from Emperor Franz Joseph for a poem on the centenary of Bukovina's joining to the Austrian Empire.

Preminger

Otto Ludwig Preminger (1905, Vyzhnytsia - 1986), a Bukovina-born Austrian Jewish American film director

Putna Monastery

Putna was founded on the lands perambulated by the Putna (which has its source in the Obcina Mare mountains, Bukovina).


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