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The Best Attractions In Chernivtsi Oblast

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Chernivtsi Oblast is an oblast in western Ukraine, consisting of the northern parts of the regions of Bukovina and Bessarabia. It has an international border with Romania and Moldova. The oblast is also the smallest in Ukraine. The oblast has a large variety of landforms: the Carpathian Mountains and picturesque hills at the foot of the mountains gradually change to a broad partly forested plain situated between the Dniester and Prut rivers. Its capital is the city Chernivtsi. The region spans 8,100 km². Population: 909,893
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The Best Attractions In Chernivtsi Oblast

  • 1. Khotyn Fortress Khotyn
    Khotyn is a city in Chernivtsi Oblast of western Ukraine, and is the administrative center of Khotyn Raion within the oblast, and is located south-west of Kamianets-Podilskyi. According to the 2001 Ukrainian census, it has a population of 11,124. Current population: 9,422 Khotyn, first chronicled in 1001, is located on the right bank of the Dniester River, and is part of the historical region Bessarabia. Important architectural landmarks within the city include the Khotyn Fortress, constructed in the 13-15th centuries , and two 15th century constructions by Moldavia's ruler Stephen the Great: the Prince's Palace and the city's clock tower. Historically, the town was part of the Principality of Moldavia , the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Ottoman Empire [1]. Subsequently, it was pa...
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  • 5. St Nicholas Cathedral Chernivtsi
    St. George Ukrainian Catholic Church is a Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church located in the East Village neighborhood of New York City's borough of Manhattan. Situated at the corner of East 7th Street and Taras Shevchenko Place, the church and the adjoining St. George Academy are encircled by, but not included in, the East Village Historic District. For over 100 years, this Ukrainian parish has served as a spiritual, political and cultural epicenter for several waves of Ukrainian Americans in New York City.
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  • 6. Chernivtsi Museum of Arts Chernivtsi
    Chernivtsi is a city in western Ukraine, situated on the upper course of the River Prut. Chernivtsi is the administrative center of Chernivtsi Oblast – the northern, Ukrainian part of the historical region of Bukovina. Administratively, Chernivtsi is a city of oblast significance. At the time of the 2001 Ukrainian Census, the population of the city was 240,600. Current population: 295,366 Chernivtsi is currently viewed as one of Western Ukraine's main cultural centers. The city is also considered one of Ukraine's important educational and architectural sites. Historically a cosmopolitan community, Chernivtsi was once dubbed Little Vienna and Jerusalem upon the Prut. Chernivtsi is currently twinned with seven other cities around the world. The city is a major regional rail and road transp...
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  • 8. Church of the Heart of Jesus Chernivtsi
    The Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church is a Byzantine Rite Eastern Catholic Church in full communion with the Holy See. It is the second-largest particular church in the Catholic Church . The church is one of the successor churches to the acceptance of Christianity by Grand Prince Vladimir the Great of Kiev, in 988. Its predecessor appeared in 1596 with the signing of the Union of Brest between the Ruthenian Orthodox Church led by Michael Rohoza and the Holy See. Following the partitions of Poland, in 1808 the eparchies of the original Ruthenian Uniate Church were split three ways between the Austrian Empire , Prussia , and the Russian Empire . Those three eparchies under Austrian jurisdiction were reorganized as the Greek Catholic Church soon after liquidation of all five eparchies that ende...
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  • 9. Armenian Church Chernivtsi
    Armenians in Ukraine are ethnic Armenians who live in Ukraine. They number 99,894 according to the 2001 Ukrainian census. However, the country is also host to a number of Armenian guest workers which has yet to be ascertained. The Armenian population in Ukraine has nearly doubled since the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1989, largely due to instability in the Caucasus. Today, Ukraine is home to the 5th largest Armenian community in the world.
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  • 12. National Park Khotyn Khotyn
    National nature parks of Ukraine are preservation territories that are part of the Nature-Preservation Fund of Ukraine. The total area protected by national parks is approximately 1,111,600 hectares , for an average of 22,685 hectares but a median of only 14,836 hectares at Zalissya. The largest national park is Upper Pobozhia in Khmelnytskyi Oblast: at over 100,000 hectares . The smallest park is Derman-Ostroh National Nature Park, at less than 5,500 hectares . This category of the Nature-Preservation Fund was mainly established after the fall of the Soviet Union. There were very few parks in Ukraine and most of them were in the West.
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  • 13. Olha Kobylyanska Literature Memorial Museum Chernivtsi
    Olha Yulianivna Kobylianska was a Ukrainian modernist writer and feminist.
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  • 15. St. Nicholas Wooden Church Chernivtsi
    Suceava is the largest city and the seat of Suceava County, situated in the historical region of Bukovina from Central Europe and north-eastern Romania respectively. The city was the capital of the medieval Principality of Moldavia from 1388 to 1565.Between 1775 and 1918, the city was the third largest urban settlement from the Duchy of Bukovina , a constituent province of the Austrian Empire, subsequently a crown land within Austria-Hungary, being only surpassed by Cernăuți and Rădăuți to the north. Throughout this period of time, it fulfilled the task of an important, strategically-located commercial border town with the then Romanian Old Kingdom , receiving a large influx of German-speaking settlers in the process .After 1918, along with the rest of Bukovina, Suceava became part of...
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