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Chernivtsi
(chər-nēvˈtsē, -nyēwˈ-) or Cher·nov·tsy (-nôfˈ-)
A city of southwest Ukraine in the foothills of the Carpathian Mountains near the Romanian border. It was a center of the Ukrainian nationalist movement in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Population: 242,000.