Boyany
| Boyany | |||
| Бояни | |||
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| Oblast : | Chernivtsi Oblast | ||
| Rajon : | Novoselytsia district | ||
| Height : | 158 m | ||
| Area : | Information is missing | ||
| Residents : | 4,742 (2001) | ||
| Postcodes : | 60321 | ||
| Area code : | +380 3733 | ||
| Geographic location : | 48 ° 16 ' N , 26 ° 7' E | ||
| KOATUU : | 7323080801 | ||
| Administrative structure : | 2 villages | ||
| Mayor : | Heorhij Demenchuk | ||
| Address: | 60321 с. Бояни | ||
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Bojany (Ukrainian Бояни ; Russian Бояны / Bojany , Romanian Boian , German until 1918 Bojan ) is a village in the Ukrainian Oblast Chernivtsi . It is located on the left bank of the Prut , about 12 kilometers northwest of the district capital Novoselyzja and 15 kilometers east of the oblast capital Chernivtsi in the area of eastern Bukovina , about 90 percent of the population are of Romanian descent.
The village was mentioned in writing for the first time in 1528 and belonged to the Principality of Moldova until 1776 . Afterwards it was incorporated by Austria into the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria and from 1849 into the new Crown Land of Bukowina. After the end of the First World War, the place came to Romania ( Cernăuți district ), but became part of the Soviet Union in the course of the annexation of Bessarabia and northern Bukovina on August 2, 1940 (between 1941-1945 again to Romania) and since 1991 part of the Ukraine.
Since 1884 the place has had a train station south of the town center on what is now the Chernivtsi – Ocnița railway line , and between 1904 and 1919 it was also the seat of the Bojan judicial district .
Together with the village of Haj (Гай), the village forms the district council of the same name Bojany.
Personalities
- Wilhelm Stekel , Austrian-Jewish medic
