Luzhany

Luschany (Ukrainian Лужани; Лужаны Russian, German rarely Luzan, Romanian Lujeni or Lujani, Polish Luzán ) is an urban-type settlement in the Ukrainian Chernivtsi Oblast. It lies on the left bank of the Prut River, about 13 kilometers northwest of Czernowitz in the northern Bukovina.

The settlement was first mentioned in writing in 1452 and then to 1776 belonged to the Principality of Moldavia. After that, she was a part of Austria in the Bukowina, and belonged to the district court Kotzman. 1866 was the place already has a rail connection along the route Lviv- Czernowitz the Lemberg - Czernowitz - Jassy Railway, on 12 July 1898, the New Bukovina Local Railway Company opened the local railway Luzan Zaleszczyki, which here had their end point and led to the north. The economic development of the town was thus highly favored, around the station created new businesses and homes, also a sugar factory was opened. During this time we also saw the settlement of Jews and German residents in the inhabited by Ukrainians village.

After the end of the First World War in 1918 the place came to Romania (in the circle Cernăuţi ), as part of the annexation of Northern Bukovina on June 28, 1940, he was part of the Soviet Union ( 1941-1944 intervening turn to Romania) and is since 1991 a part of Ukraine. It was raised to urban-type settlement in 1968.

Place in the Chernivtsi Oblast

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