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Chernivtsi (Ukraine)

Description: The city is located in the historic Northern Bukovyna region of western Ukraine.

Newest Review: ... the trade route between L'viv and the Black Sea and was used as a customs check point by the Moldovans, it was in a document at this time that the town was first mentioned as Chernivtsi, it was also said that it was a humble country town with several churches, 5 artisans and mostly farmers. This economic growth stopped when Moldova became part of the Turkish Ottoman Empire, the area that ... more

... Chernivtsi was then known as Bukovina which became Austrian due to the result of the Russian-Tukrish war in the early 1770's. The city once again started to do better and the population swelled as it became the center of Galicia and then towards the late 1...more

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Chernivtsi (Ukraine): Chernivtsi - Little Vienna in Southern Ukraine (899 words)
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Chernivtsi is a city of around 240,000 in South Western Ukraine about 650km south of Kiev, I paid it a visit during a trip in Ukraine about 2 years ago. In retrospect the 1 day was not really enough. History Chernivtsi started off as a modest ancient Slavic settlement on the left bank of the River Prut which starts off in the Ukrainian Carpathian mountains, joins the Danube in the Delta in Romania before entering the Black Sea. This site saw the Galician prince (most likely Yaroslav Osmomysl (1153-1187) set up a fortress to protect the borders and the trade route along the river, the fortress was known as Chern (black) and this is where the town's ... Read the complete review

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