Duchy of Bukovina | |||||||||
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1849–1918 | |||||||||
Status | Land of the Austrian Empire (1849–1867) Crown land of Cisleithania (1867–1918) | ||||||||
Capital | Czernowitz (Cernăuți / Chernivtsi) | ||||||||
Common languages | German, Romanian, Ukrainian | ||||||||
Government | Constitutional Monarchy (1861–1918) | ||||||||
Landespräsident | |||||||||
• 1849 | Eduard von Bach | ||||||||
• 1917–1918 | Josef Graf von Ezdorf | ||||||||
History | |||||||||
• Annexation of northwestern Moldavia by the Habsburg monarchy[1][2][3] and integration into the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria as the Bukovina District | 1775 | ||||||||
• Establishment of the Duchy of Bukovina | 4 March 1849 | ||||||||
• Declaration of Union with Romania | 28 November 1918 | ||||||||
10 September 1919 | |||||||||
Area | |||||||||
• Total | 10,442 km2 (4,032 sq mi) | ||||||||
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Today part of | Romania Ukraine |
The Duchy of Bukovina (German: Herzogtum Bukowina or Herzogtum Buchenland; Romanian: Ducatul Bucovinei; Ukrainian: Герцогство Буковина, romanized: Hertsohstvo Bukovyna) was a constituent land of the Austrian Empire from 1849 and a Cisleithanian crown land of Austria-Hungary from 1867 until 1918.