Novoselytsia (Ukrainian: Новоселиця [ˌnɔwoˈsɛlɪtsʲɐ]; Romanian: Noua Suliță [ˈnowa ˈsulitsə]; Yiddish: נאוואסעליץ, romanizedNovoselitz; German: Nowoselitza) is a city in Chernivtsi Raion, Chernivtsi Oblast (province) of Ukraine. It stands at the northern tip of Bessarabia region, on its border with Bukovina. It hosts the administration of Novoselytsia urban hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine.[1] Population: 7,399 (2022 estimate).[2]

Novoselytsia
Новоселиця
Noua Suliță
Official seal of Novoselytsia
Novoselytsia is located in Chernivtsi Oblast
Novoselytsia
Novoselytsia
Location in Ukraine
Novoselytsia is located in Ukraine
Novoselytsia
Novoselytsia
Novoselytsia (Ukraine)
Coordinates: 48°13′N 26°16′E / 48.217°N 26.267°E / 48.217; 26.267
Country Ukraine
OblastChernivtsi Oblast
RaionChernivtsi Raion
HromadaNovoselytsia urban hromada
First mentioned1456
City status1940
Area
 • Total250 sq mi (647 km2)
Population
 (2022)
 • Total7,399
Time zoneUTC+2 (EET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+3 (EEST)
Post code
60300-06
Area code+380-3733

History

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From 1775 to 1918, Bukovina was an administrative division of the Habsburg monarchy, and a province of Austria-Hungary (Austrian half).[3] 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

From 1774 to 1877, Novoselytsia was at the tripoint between the Austrian Empire (Duchy of Bukovina), Principality of Moldavia (later Romania), and the Russian Empire (Bessarabia Governorate). The larger part of the settlement belonged to the Russian Empire and the smaller to the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy. After the secondary customs office in Boiany was closed in 1866, Novoselytsia was the only border point between Russian Bessarabia and Austrian Bukovina. With the inauguration of the train connection between the Russian and the Austrian province in 1893, Novoselytsia was also the fourth train junction between the two Empires.[4]

Until 18 July 2020, Novoselytsia served as an administrative center of Novoselytsia Raion. The raion was abolished in July 2020 as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced the number of raions of Chernivtsi Oblast to three. The area of Novoselytsia Raion was split between Chernivtsi and Dnistrovskyi Raions, with Novoselytsia being transferred to Chernivtsi Raion.[5][6]

Until at least 2020, in the town, there was a raion Romanian-language newspaper, Cuvantul Adevarului.[7]

Population

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The distribution of the population by native language in 2001 was Ukrainian 54.9%, Romanian 34.5%%, and Russian 10.1%.[8][9] In 2001, the population mostly identified itself as 54.37% ethnically Ukrainian, 35.82% as Moldovan, 1.63% as Romanian, and 6.84% as Russian.[10] Among the urban localities of Ukraine, this city had the largest share of self-identified Moldovans.[11][12] Unlike in the cities of Ukrainian southern Bessarabia except for Tatarbunary, where most Moldovans spoke Russian as their native language, most of the self-identified ethnic Moldovans and Romanians of Novoselytsia were Romanian-speaking in 2001.[13] In 1989, the mostly ethnically Ukrainian population of 8,185 those with a Moldovan ethnic identity were 39.01% of the population, and those with a Romanian ethnic identity formed 1.53% of the population.[14] Thus, the proportion of the population with a Moldovan ethnic identity decreased and that with a Romanian ethnic identity increased from 1989 to 2001. Novoselytsia is the city in Ukraine with the largest proportion of the population with a Moldovan ethnic identity in the country; there is no city with an absolute Moldovan ethnic majority in Ukraine.[15] It is also city with the second largest Romanian-language percentage of the population, after Hertsa.[16][17]

In January 1989 the population was 8,384 people.[18][19]

In January 2013 the population was 7,774 people.[20]

Notable people

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Villa der Ritter von Zotta in Novoselycia, 1900

References

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  1. ^ "Новоселицкая городская громада" (in Russian). Портал об'єднаних громад України.
  2. ^ Чисельність наявного населення України на 1 січня 2022 [Number of Present Population of Ukraine, as of January 1, 2022] (PDF) (in Ukrainian and English). Kyiv: State Statistics Service of Ukraine. Archived (PDF) from the original on 4 July 2022.
  3. ^ Die postalischen Abstempelungen auf den österreichischen Postwertzeichen-Ausgaben 1867, 1883 und 1890, Wilhelm KLEIN, 1967
  4. ^ Philippe Henri Blasen and Andrei Cușco, "Noua-Suliță - Triplex Confinium. Experiențe transfrontaliere la periferiile imperiale (1869–1914),” in Ipostaze istorice ale mișcărilor de populație și modele identitare etnolingvistice actuale, ed. Flavius Solomon et al. (Bucharest: Editura Academiei Române, 2019), 225–256.
  5. ^ "Про утворення та ліквідацію районів. Постанова Верховної Ради України № 807-ІХ". Голос України (in Ukrainian). 2020-07-18. Retrieved 2020-10-03.
  6. ^ "Нові райони: карти + склад" (in Ukrainian). Міністерство розвитку громад та територій України. 17 July 2020.
  7. ^ Ion Popescu and Constantin Ungureanu, Romanii din Ucraina - intre trecut si viitor, vol. 1 (Romanii din Regiunea Cernauti), Cernauti, 2005, p. 260.
  8. ^ "Рідні мови в об'єднаних територіальних громадах України".
  9. ^ "Мовний склад міст".
  10. ^ The Ukrainian census of 2001, ethnicity/nationality data by localities, at http://pop-stat.mashke.org/ukraine-ethnic2001.htm
  11. ^ The Ukrainian census of 2001, ethnicity/nationality data by localities, at http://pop-stat.mashke.org/ukraine-ethnic2001.htm
  12. ^ The Ukrainian census of 2001, language data by localities, at https://socialdata.org.ua/projects/mova-2001/
  13. ^ The Ukrainian census of 2001, ethnicity/nationality data by localities, at http://pop-stat.mashke.org/ukraine-ethnic2001.htm
  14. ^ Ion Popescu and Constantin Ungureanu, Romanii din Ucraina - intre trecut si viitor, vol. 1 (Romanii din Regiunea Cernauti), Cernauti, 2005, p. 214.
  15. ^ The Ukrainian census of 2001, ethnicity/nationality data by localities, at http://pop-stat.mashke.org/ukraine-ethnic2001.htm
  16. ^ The Ukrainian census of 2001, language data by cities, at https://datatowel.in.ua/pop-composition/languages-raions
  17. ^ The Ukrainian census of 2001, language data by localities, at https://socialdata.org.ua/projects/mova-2001/
  18. ^ Всесоюзная перепись населения 1989 г. Численность городского населения союзных республик, их территориальных единиц, городских поселений и городских районов по полу
  19. ^ Новоселица // Большой энциклопедический словарь (в 2-х тт.). / редколл., гл. ред. А. М. Прохоров. том 2. М., "Советская энциклопедия", 1991. стр.41
  20. ^ "Чисельність наявного населення України на 1 січня 2013 року. Державна служба статистики України. Київ, 2013. стор.108" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-10-12. Retrieved 2019-08-02.