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Bukovina
(bo̵̅o̅′kə vē′nə)
region in central Europe, partly in N Romania & partly in SW Ukraine: an Austrian crown land from 1775 to 1918
See Bukovina in American Heritage Dictionary 4
also Bu·co·vi·na
A historical region of eastern Europe in western Ukraine and northeast Romania. A part of the Roman province of Dacia, it was overrun by barbarian hordes after the third century A.D. The area was later controlled by Kiev, the Ottoman Empire, and Austria.
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