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- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 17:34:46 EDT
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- From: Hugh Agnew <AGNEWHL@GWUVM.BITNET>
- Subject: Re: Request for information about archives
- In-Reply-To: Message of Tue,
- 29 Dec 1992 16:49:43 EST from <haupt@PILOT.NJIN.NET>
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- Further on Ed Haupt's interest in the Bukovina and Cernauti (Chernovtsy,
- Czernowitz -- btw, this is the German spelling I am familiar with).
-
- The Bukovina (lying in the eastern foothills of the Carpathians, adjoining
- Bessarabia) was nominally part of the Ottoman Empire, as part of the
- principality of Moldavia, until in 1769 it was occupied by the Austrians.
- They annexed it in 1775, but treated it as part of their portion of the
- Polish partitions, Galicia, until 1849, when it was separated and given its
- own crownland status as the Duchy of Bukovina. In 1918, following the
- collapse of Austria-Hungary, the Bukovina joined (voluntarily?) Romania as
- a province.
-
- During World War II, in 1940, Bukovina and Bessarabia were taken by the Soviet
- Union following an ultimatum to the Romanian government, under the terms of the
- secret protocol to the Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact of 1939. From 1941 to 1944,
- however, the territory was occupied by German and Romanian forces during their
- war with the Soviet Union. Following Romania's flip-flop in August 1944, an
- armistice agreement with the Soviet Union ceded Northern Bukovina including
- Czernowitz, and Bessarabia back to the USSR, leaving Southern Bukovina in
- Romania. Now Chernovtsy and its region, having been a separate _oblast_ of
- the Ukrainian SSR, form part of independent Ukraine.
-
- Ed, this should give you some pretty headaches: isn't it possible that the
- archives of the University are in Bucuresti? Or even Kiev, Moscow, or still
- in Czernowitz itself? Or that they were destroyed during this chequered
- history? Let us know what happens!
-
- Sincerely,
-
- Hugh Agnew (AGNEWHL@GWUVM.BITNET)
-