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Bucovina

American  
[boo-kuh-vee-nuh, boo-kaw-vee-nah] / ˌbu kəˈvi nə, bʊ kɔˈvi nɑ /
Or Bukovina

noun

  1. a region in E central Europe, formerly a district in N Romania: now divided between Romania and Ukraine. 4,031 sq. mi. (10,440 sq. km).


Bucovina British  
/ ˌbuːkəˈviːnə /

noun

  1. a variant spelling of Bukovina

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The accident occurred late Sunday outside the eastern city of Ramnicu Sarat when the team was returning home from a game against Vicov Bucovina.

From Washington Times • Nov. 16, 2015

The region, which became the eastern outpost of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, is now divided between southern Bucovina, in northeastern Romania, and Chernivtsi Province, in present-day Ukraine.

From New York Times • Jun. 18, 2010

A list of guesthouses in Romanian Bucovina is available at ruraltourism.ro/bucovina/html/bucovinaen.html.

From New York Times • Jun. 18, 2010

Marshal Zhukov, at the northern end of the Ukrainian front, had done very well by breaking through with heavy concentrations of guns and tanks into Bucovina.

From Time Magazine Archive

That language and national characteristics have, nevertheless, not been lost is due to the fact that the Rumanian population of Bucovina is peasant almost to a man—a class little amenable to changes of civilization.

From The Balkans A History of Bulgaria—Serbia—Greece—Rumania—Turkey by Forbes, Nevill