The union of Bukovina with Romania was declared on 28 November 1918, being officially recognized by the international community in 1919 and 1920.
Timeline of events 1918 22 October - Constantin Isopescu-Grecul, a Bukovinian Romanian deputy in the Austrian Imperial Council, warns the authorities in Vienna that if they do not force Budapest to release Transylvania and other Romanian-inhabited areas from Hungary, then the Romanian subjects of the empire would have to look for outside help.Robert A. Kann, Zdenek David, University of Washington Press, 2017, Peoples of the Eastern Habsburg Lands, 1526-1918, p. 446 25 October - The Ukrainian National Committee for Bukovina is formed. 27 October - The Romanian National Council is formed under the leadership of Iancu Flondor. 3 November - The Ukrainian National Rada takes control of the state apparatus in Czernowitz and the surrounding area.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 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). 6 November - The Ukrainian National Committee occupies all Government buildings in Czernowitz and Omelian Popowicz is proclaimed President of "Ukrainian Bukovina".Volodymyr Kubiĭovych, Ukrainian National Association, 1963, Ukraine, a Concise Encyclopedia, Volume 1, p. 787 7 November - Iancu Flondor appeals to the Romanian Government to occupy the entire land of Bukovina. 9/10 November - Romania re-declares war on the Central Powers (the May 1918 Treaty of Bucharest put an end to the first Romanian Campaign).Spencer Tucker, Priscilla Mary Roberts, ABC-CLIO, 2005, World War I: A Student Encyclopedia, p. 361 10 November - The Ukrainian National Committee together with its military supporters retreat from Czernowitz. 11 November - Czernowitz (claimed by the West Ukrainian People's Republic) is seized by the Romanian Army.Ivan Katchanovski, Zenon E. Kohut, Bohdan Y. Nebesio, Myroslav Yurkevich, Scarecrow Press, 2013, Historical Dictionary of Ukraine, p. 749 12 November - The Romanian National Council establishes a new government in Bukovina under Flondor's presidency. 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.Keith Hitchins, Clarendon Press, 1994, Rumania 1866-1947, p. 279 19 December - The Romanian Government issues a decree formalizing Bukovina's annexation.
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).Marcel 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. 58Richard 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
1920 10 August - The Treaty of Sèvres established the Romanian-Polish boundary (mainly, based on the July 1919 Lwów Convention).
Aftermath Since 2015, Bukovina Day is celebrated in Romania every 28 November to commemorate the union of the region with Romania.
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See also Great Union Union of Transylvania with Romania Union of Bessarabia with Romania Greater Romania Romanian occupation of Pokuttia Soviet occupation of Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina
References
External links
Virtual Museum of the Union