Novoselytsia Raion

Novoselytsia Raion Новоселицький район (Ukrainian) Raionul Noua Suliță (Romanian)
Raion
Flag Coat of arms
Country	Ukraine
Region	Chernivtsi Oblast
Established	1940
Admin. center	Novoselytsia
Subdivisions	List    — city councils    — settlement councils  — rural councils Number of localities:    — cities    — urban-type settlements 42 — villages    — rural settlements
Government
• Governor	N/A
Area
• Total	734 km^2 (283 sq mi)
Population
• Total	87,461
• Density	120/km^2 (310/sq mi)
Time zone	EET (UTC+2)
• Summer (DST)	EEST (UTC+3)
Postal index	604XX
Area code	380-3733X
Website	[?]

Novoselytsia Raion (Ukrainian: Новоселицький район, Romanian: Raionul Noua Suliță pronounced [raˈjonul ˈnowa ˈsulit͡sə]) is a raion (administrative district) in Chernivtsi Oblast, (province) in the west of Ukraine. The center of the raion is the town of Novoselytsia.

History and population

From 1775 to 1918, Bukovina was an administrative division of the Habsburg Monarchy, and a province of Austria–Hungary (Austrian half).^[1] After World War I, Bucovina became part of Romania. In 1940, the northern half of Bucovina was annexed by the Soviet Union.

Austrian stamp cancelled around 1874 in the Bukovina province

According to the 2001 Ukrainian Census, the raion's population was 87,241. The ethnical composition was as follows:

	Total	Ukrainians	Russians	Romanians	Moldovans	Other
	87,461	29,703	1,235	5,904	50,329	290

Sofia Rotaru was born in Marshintsy, one of the Romanian speaking villages of Novoselytskyi Raion.

Tarasivtsi village in the raion is notable as the only place in Ukraine where the Moldovan (Romanian) language has been designated as a regional language. This occurred after Ukraine permitted regional languages to be designated in August 2012 .^[2]

Administrative divisions

Novoselytsia Raion has 1 town and 30 communes:

• Novoselytsia - administrative seat

• Communes
  • Balkivtsi
  • Berestia
  • Boiany
  • Cerlenivka
  • Chornivka
  • Dinivtsi
  • Dovzhok
  • Dranitsia
  • Forosna
  • Kostychany
  • Koteleve
  • Mahala
  • Malinivka
  • Mamaliha
  • Marshyntsi
  • Nesvoia
  • Podvirne
  • Pripruttia
  • Ridkivtsi
  • Rokitne
  • Rynhach
  • Shcherbintsi
  • Sloboda
  • Stalnivtsi
  • Strointsi
  • Tarasivtsi
  • Toporivtsi
  • Vanchikivtsi
  • Zelenyi Hai
  • Zhilivka

Of these, Boiany, Chornivka, Mahala, Sloboda, Pripruttia, Toporivtsi and Zelenyi Hai are in the historical region of Bukovina, while the remainder are in Bessarabia.

References

1. Die postalischen Abstempelungen auf den österreichischen Postwertzeichen-Ausgaben 1867, 1883 und 1890, Wilhelm KLEIN, 1967
2. "Popov: No bilingualism in Kyiv", Kyiv Post, September 19, 2012

External links

• Novoselytskyi Raion - official website (Ukrainian)
• Verkhovna Rada website - Administrative divisions of Novoselytskyi Raion (Ukrainian)