4 November - Aurel Onciul, a Romanian Bukovinian politician, concludes an agreement (not authorized by the Romanian National Council) with the Ukrainian National Committee providing for the division of Bukovina along ethnic lines and joint Romanian-Ukrainian control over Czernowitz (the capital of Bukovina).[1]
6 November - The Ukrainian National Committee occupies all Government buildings in Czernowitz and Omelian Popowicz is proclaimed President of "Ukrainian Bukovina".[3]
7 November - Iancu Flondor appeals to the Romanian Government to occupy the entire land of Bukovina.[1]
12 November - The Romanian National Council establishes a new government in Bukovina under Flondor's presidency.[1]
28 November - The Romanian National Council, together with Polish and German representatives, convokes the General Congress of Bukovina which requests the union of Bukovina with Romania.[1][6]
19 December - The Romanian Government issues a decree formalizing Bukovina's annexation.[1]
1919
10 September - The Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye is signed, recognizing Romanian sovereignty over Bukovina (the frontiers of Romania were to be later fixed).[7][8][9]
1920
10 August - The Treaty of Sèvres established the Romanian-Polish boundary (mainly, based on the July 1919 Lwów Convention).[8][10]
Aftermath
Since 2015, Bukovina Day is celebrated in Romania every 28 November to commemorate the union of the region with Romania.[11]
Gallery
Bukovina within Austria-Hungary
Flag of Bukovina
Division of Bukovina (orange) as claimed by the West Ukrainian People's Republic (black interrupted line)
Ethnic map of Bukovina (purple = Romanians, green = Ukrainians)
^ abcdefghijRobert A. Kann, Zdenek David, University of Washington Press, 2017, Peoples of the Eastern Habsburg Lands, 1526-1918, p. 446
^Vasyl Kuchabsky, Gus Fagan, Wirth-Institute for Austrian and Central European Studies, Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies Press, 2009, Western Ukraine in conflict with Poland and Bolshevism, 1918-1923, p. 54
^ abcVolodymyr Kubiĭovych, Ukrainian National Association, 1963, Ukraine, a Concise Encyclopedia, Volume 1, p. 787
^Spencer Tucker, Priscilla Mary Roberts, ABC-CLIO, 2005, World War I: A Student Encyclopedia, p. 361
^Ivan Katchanovski, Zenon E. Kohut, Bohdan Y. Nebesio, Myroslav Yurkevich, Scarecrow Press, 2013, Historical Dictionary of Ukraine, p. 749
^Keith Hitchins, Clarendon Press, 1994, Rumania 1866-1947, p. 279
^ abMarcel Cornis-Pope, John Neubauer, John Benjamins Publishing, 2006, History of the Literary Cultures of East-Central Europe: Junctures and disjunctures in the 19th and 20th centuries, Volume 2, p. 58
^Richard C. Hall, ABC-CLIO, 2014, War in the Balkans: An Encyclopedic History from the Fall of the Ottoman Empire to the Breakup of Yugoslavia, p. 50
Bukovina within Austria-Hungary
Flag of Bukovina
Division of Bukovina (orange) as claimed by the West Ukrainian People's Republic (black interrupted line)
Ethnic map of Bukovina (purple = Romanians, green = Ukrainians)
Iancu Flondor
