Hertsaivsky Raion

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This article is about the administrative district in Ukraine. For the territorial controversy, see Hertza region.

Hertsaivsky Raion (Ukrainian: Герцаївський район Hercaïvs'kyj rajon, Romanian: Raionul Herţa) is an administrative district (raion) in the southern part of Chernivtsi Oblast in south-western Ukraine, on the Romanian border. The region has an area of 350 km² and centers on the town of Hertsa, which derives its name from the German "Herzog" meaning "duke."

Contents

1 History
2 Population
3 Localities
4 External links

History

The region was part of the Principality of Moldavia since its founding in the 14th century and after the union of Moldavia with Wallachia in 1859 it became part of Romania, which gained its formal independence in 1877.

Hertza region was annexed by the Soviet Union in 1940 following the signing of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact with Nazi Germany and was added to the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic. It was recaptured by Romania in 1941 in the course of Axis attack on the Soviet Union in the Second World War but was recaptured by the Soviet Army in 1944. The annexation was confirmed by the Paris Peace Treaties in 1947.

The fact that neither the secret protocol (appendix) of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, which specified the expansionist claims of both sides, nor the June 1940 Soviet Ultimatum demanding from Romania the adjacent territory of Northern Bukovina and Bessarabia included Hertsa makes the capture by the Soviets especially controversial . Furthermore, unlike Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina, the region had not been a part of Imperial Russia or Austria-Hungary before World War I, but had been a part of Romania and one of its predecessor states, Moldavia, before that.

In 1962 the region was merged into the Hlyboka Raion and in 1991 reinstated again.

Population

In 1930, the region had a population of 30,082, of which 27,919 (92,8%) Romanians, 1,931 (6,4%) Jews and 232 (0,8%) people of other ethnicities.

In 2001, the population of Hertsaivsky Raion was 32,316, of which 91.4% Romanians, 5.0% Ukrainians, 2.3% Moldovans, 0.9% Russians and 0.3% of other ethnicities (Ukrainian Census (2001)).

Localities

The following localities are found in Hertsaivsky Raion (Romanian names listed in brackets):

Bajraki
Bancheni (Bănceni)
Bukіvka
Velika Buda (Buda)
Velikosіllya (Satu Mare)
Hertsa (Herţa)
Godinіvka (Godâneşti)
Gorbova (Horbova)
Dyakіvcі
Krup'yans'ke
Kulikіvka (Culiceni)
Lukovicya (Lucoviţa)
Lunka (Lunca)
Mala Buda (Buda Mică)
Mogilіvka (Movila)
Molnicya (Molniţa)
Ostricya (Stârceşti)
Petrashіvka
Pіdval'ne
Ternavka (Târnauca)
Xryac'ka (Hreaţca)
Curen'

External links

	Subdivisions of Chernivtsi Oblast, Ukraine

	Raions:	Chernivtsi City \| Hertsaivsky Raion \| Hlybotsky Raion \| Kelmenetsky Raion \| Khotynsky Raion \| Kitsmansky Raion \| Novodnistrovsk City \| Novoselytsky Raion \| Putylsky Raion \| Sokyryansky Raion \| Storozhynetsky Raion \| Vyzhnytsky Raion \| Zastavnetsky Raion
	Cities:	Chernivtsi \| Hertsa \| Khotyn \| Kitsman \| Novodnistrovsk \| Novoselytsia \| Sokyryany \| Storozhynets \| Vashkivtsi \| Vyzhnytsia \| Zastavna
	Towns:	Hlyboka \| Kelmenetsi \| Putyla
	Villages:	Bila Krynytsya \| Boyany \| Chornivka

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