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Flag of Chernivtsi. The Chernivtsi flag consists of a tree, the top, and a rectangular cloth, the front of which forms framed by a red tooth-like ornament white background with an inscription in Ukrainian in the center, over which there is inscribed in Ukrainian: "Chernivtsi".
Chernivtsi, Ukraine. Chernivtsi, city, southwestern Ukraine, situated on the upper Prut River in the Carpathian foothills. The first documentary reference to Chernivtsi dates from about 1408, when it was a town in Moldavia and the chief centre of the area known as Bukovina. Chernivtsi later passed to the Turks and then in 1774 to Austria.
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May 14, 2009 · Mila Kunis. by ethnic · May 14, 2009. Kunis in 2012, photo by PR Photos. Birth Name: Milena Markovna Kunis. Place of Birth: Chernov’tsi, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union (now Ukraine) Date of Birth: August 14, 1983. Ethnicity: Ashkenazi Jewish. Mila Kunis is an American actress.
89 Researchers generally agree that the official Soviet memory of Chernivtsi was exclusive, overshadowing the memory of the local “Others,” primarily Jews, elevating the city’s Ukrainian and Russian memory on a pedestal to construct the Ukrainian Soviet identity in the city.
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Foundation of Chernivtsi
There were settlements on the territory of Chernivtsi already in the Neolithic period (about 7 thousand years ago). Slavic monuments of the 2nd-5th centuries were discovered in the vicinity of Chernivtsi. In the 12th century, the Galician prince Yaroslav Osmomysl presumably founded a fortified settlement on the left bank of the Prut River, on the territory of today’s Chernivtsi. This fortress with a trade and craft settlement was called Chern or Chorny town (literally “black town”), apparentl...
Chernivtsi is located in the foothills of the Carpathian Mountains, on the border between the Carpathians and the East European Plain, on the banks of the Prut River. The distance to Kyiv by road is about 530 km, to Lviv - 280 km. The City Day of Chernivtsi is celebrated on the first Saturday in October. The climate in this city is moderately conti...
Residence of Bukovinian and Dalmatian Metropolitans(1864-1882) - a unique architectural ensemble, which is the most picturesque landmark of Chernivtsi, an architectural monument of national importance resembling a medieval castle. The architectural ensemble was designed by the renowned Czech scientist and architect Josef Hlavka in the spirit of ecl...
Chernivtsi [Чернівці; Černivci] (German: Czernowitz; Romanian: Cernauti). Map: V-6. The historical capital and political, cultural, and religious center of Bukovyna and eventually of Chernivtsi oblast. The city (2005 pop 243,500) lies on the border of Subcarpathia and on the boundary separating Ukrainian and Romanian ethnic territories.
Ethnic divisions in Chernivtsi Oblast at the end of the Soviet Period , with Ukrainians, Romanians, Russians and Jewish areas depicted in white, blue, red, and yellow respectively. Note that the Moldovans, which represented 9% of the region's population according to the last Soviet census (1989), are shown as Romanians.
