Hertza region
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- This article is about the territorial controversy over the region of Hertsa (Herţa). See Hertza Raion for administrative district in Ukraine.
Ethnic divisions in Chernivtsi Oblast with Hertza region highlighted in dark blue
Hertza region (Romanian: Ţinutul Herţa, Ukrainian: Край Герца Kraj Herca) is the territory of an administrative district (raion) of Hertsa (Herţa) in the southern part of Chernivtsi Oblast in south-western Ukraine, on the Romanian border. The population in 2001 was about 32,300 people, 93% of which are ethnic-Romanians.
The territory was occupied by the Soviet Union in 1940 following the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact and was attached to the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic. It was recaptured by Romania for 1941 - 1944 in the course of Axis attack on the Soviet Union in the Second World War but in 1944 the Soviet Army recaptured it. The annexation of the territory was internationally recognized by the Paris Peace Treaties in 1947.
Romania and Ukraine have signed and ratified the border agreement and are signatories of international treaties and alliances that denounce any territorial claims. Romanians organisations in the region consider Hertsa to be historically Romanian, detached from it by the Soviet Union in 1940 in defiance of the international law.
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| Dobrogea | Moldavia (Bessarabia - Budjak - Bukovina - Hertza) | Transylvania (Banat - Crişana - Maramureş) | Wallachia (Muntenia - Oltenia) | ||
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