Bukovina District
Bukovina (1775–1786) Bukowina; also Buchenland Bukovina District / Chernivtsi District (1786–1849) Bukowiner Kreis / Kreis Bukowina / Kreis Czernowitz | |||||||||
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| 1775–1849 1860–1861 | |||||||||
Flag of Galicia and Lodomeria (1775–1849)
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Territorial evolution of the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria, which used to include Bukovina | |||||||||
| Capital | Czernowitz (Cernăuți / Chernivtsi) | ||||||||
| Common languages | German, Romanian, Ukrainian | ||||||||
| History | |||||||||
| 1775 | |||||||||
• Bukovina becomes a formal district of Galicia and Lodomeria | 1786 | ||||||||
• Detached as the Duchy of Bukovina | 13 March 1849 | ||||||||
• Reincorporated into Galicia and Lodomeria | 31 August 1860 | ||||||||
| 28 February 1861 | |||||||||
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| Today part of | Romania Ukraine | ||||||||
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The Bukovina District (German: Bukowiner Kreis or Kreis Bukowina), also known as the Chernivtsi District (German: Kreis Czernowitz), was an administrative division – a Kreis (lit. 'circle') – of the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria within the Habsburg monarchy (from 1804 the Austrian Empire) in Bukovina, annexed from Moldavia. It was first a military district from 1775 to 1786 until it was officially incorporated into Galicia and Lodomeria as its own district.
On 13 March 1849, following the revolutions of 1848, Bukovina was detached from Galicia and Lodomeria, becoming the Duchy of Bukovina, a separate crown land of the Austrian Empire. It was reincorporated into Galicia and Lodomeria on 31 August 1860 but detached once again on 28 February 1861 by the February Patent.