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• a variation of Bucovina.

Bukovina

British  

/ ˌbuːkəˈviːnə /

noun

1. a region of E central Europe, part of the NE Carpathians: the north was seized by the Soviet Union (1940) and later became part of Ukraine; the south remained Romanian

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Example Sentences

Paul Antschel was born in 1920 in Czernowitz, the old capital of Bukovina, which was once Austro-Hungarian, then Romanian, now Ukrainian.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 5, 2026

Friday’s ceremony celebrated the 105th anniversary of Great Union Day of 1918 when modern-day Romania was formed after its unification with the neighboring regions of Transylvania, Bessarabia and Bukovina.

From Washington Times • Dec. 1, 2023

However, Ashkenazi Jewish foodways scholar Eve Jochnowitz noted that mamaliga technically originated in the region of Bukovina which, while a part of pre-World War II Romania, is now in Ukraine.

From Salon • Mar. 19, 2022

Bukovina was always half in Ukraine and half in Romania, and there was a lot of coming and going, so its culture is very eclectic and mixed.

From New York Times • Oct. 17, 2017

I would have bet anything that he was from Romania or Bukovina and that he had found his origins in the eastern Carpathians.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros