Wiktionary
alt. A historical region on the northern slopes of the northeastern Carpathian Mountains and adjoining plains, currently split between Romania and Ukraine. n. A historical region on the northern slopes of the northeastern Carpathian Mountains and adjoining plains, currently split between Romania and Ukraine.
Wikipedia
Bukovina (; Bukovyna; Hungarian: Bukovina; German and Polish: Bukowina; see also other languages) is a historical region in Central Europe, divided between Romania and Ukraine, located on the northern slopes of the central Eastern Carpathians and the adjoining plains.
Historically part of Moldavia, the territory of what became known as Bukovina was, from 1774 to 1918, an administrative division of the Habsburg Monarchy, the Austrian Empire, and Austria-Hungary. After World War I, Romania established control over Bukovina. In 1940, the northern half of Bukovina was annexed by the Soviet Union, and nowadays is part of Ukraine.
Bukovina is a village and municipality ( obec) in Blansko District in the South Moravian Region of the Czech Republic.
The municipality covers an area of , and has a population of 337 (as at 3 July 2006).
Bukovina lies approximately south-east of Blansko, north-east of Brno, and south-east of Prague.
Usage examples of "bukovina".
When they have gone, my carriage shall come for you, and shall bear you to the Borgo Pass to meet the diligence from Bukovina to Bistritz.
I find that the district he named is in the extreme east of the country, just on the borders of three states, Transylvania, Moldavia, and Bukovina, in the midst of the Carpathian mountains.
He will now come on to Bukovina, and return tomorrow or the next day, better the next day.
It is used but little, and very different from the coach road from the Bukovina to Bistritz, which is more wide and hard, and more of use.
He thought, as he had more than once since Mina had arrived at his house in Bukovina, that if he were younger he would not be offering Jonathan such good advice.