Herza area

This article deals with the territorial controversy over the Herza area (Herța). More about the administrative district of Ukraine under Herza Raion .

Historical regions: red : northern Bukovina , blue : Herza, green : northern Bessarabia

Ethnic areas in Chernivtsi Oblast with Ukrainian , Romanian , Russian ( Lipovan ), and Jewish areas shown in white, blue, red, and yellow. September 2007

The Herza region ( Ukrainian Край Герца Kraj Herza , Romanian Ținutul Herța ) is an area of the Chernivtsi Oblast in southwestern Ukraine on the border between Romania and Ukraine .

It corresponds to, with the exception of the areas of three villages ( Polyana , Turjatka and Nyschni Synivtsi ), which are in Hlyboka district, one village ( Bojanivka ), which is in Novoselytsia district , and four villages that do not belong to the area ( Bukiwtsi , Mamornyzja , Ostryzja and Zuren ) today's Herza Raion of Ukraine.

The population in 2001 was approximately 32,300 people, 93% of whom were ethnic Romanians . The name is derived from the main town of the area, the city of Herza .

The territory has belonged to the Principality of Moldova since the Middle Ages , became part of Romania (in the Moldova region ) in the middle of the 19th century, and was occupied by the Soviet Union and incorporated into the Ukrainian SSR from June 28, 1940 . It was recaptured from Romania as an ally of the Axis Powers after the attack on the Soviet Union on the Eastern Front of World War II in 1941, but then taken back by the Red Army in 1944 . The annexation of the territory was internationally recognized by the Paris Peace Accords in 1947.

Romania and Ukraine have ratified and signed a border agreement and are co-signers of international treaties and alliances that condemn any territorial claims.

Web links

• One of the original authors of the Ukrainian constitution speaks about the Herța region ( Memento of December 8, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) (Romanian)