Novoselytsia Raion


Novoselytsia Raion is a raion in Chernivtsi Oblast, in the west of Ukraine. The western part of its territory lies in the historical region of Bukovina, the eastern part in Bessarabia, while one village is part of the Hertza region. The center of the raion is the town of Novoselytsia. Population:

History and population

From 1775 to 1918, Bukovina was an administrative division of the Habsburg Monarchy, and a province of Austria–Hungary. After World War I, Bucovina became part of Romania. In 1940, the northern half of Bucovina was annexed by the Soviet Union.
According to the 2001 Ukrainian Census, the raion's population was 87,241. The ethnical composition was as follows:
Sofia Rotaru was born in Marshintsy, one of the Romanian speaking villages of Novoselytskyi Raion.
The village of Tarasivtsi, located in the raion, is notable as the only place in Ukraine where the Moldovan language has been designated as a regional language. This occurred after Ukraine permitted regional languages to be designated in August 2012.

Administrative divisions

Novoselytsia Raion has 1 town and 30 communes:
Of these, Boiany, Chornivka, Mahala, Sloboda, Pripruttia, Toporivtsi and Zelenyi Hai are in the historical region of Bukovina, while the remainder are in Bessarabia.