Hertza region

The Herza area (Romanian Ţinutul Herta, Ukrainian Край Герца / Kraj Herza ) is an area in the south-western Ukraine, on the Romanian border, the exception of the areas of three villages ( Polyana, Turjatka and Nyschni Syniwzi ) that lie in Rajon Hlyboka, and three not belonging to the area villages ( Bukiwzi, Ostryzja and Zuren ) corresponds to today's Rajon Herza Ukraine. The population in 2001 was about 32,300 people, of whom 93 % were ethnic Romanians. The name derives from the main town of the area, the city Herza.

The territory belonged since the Middle Ages to the Principality of Moldavia, mid-19th century was a part of Romania ( in the region of Moldova ) and was annexed occupied from 28 June 1940 by the Soviet Union and the Ukrainian SSR. It was retaken by Romania in the wake of the attacks of the Axis powers on the Soviet Union on the Eastern Front of World War II in 1941, but then occupied in 1944 by the Red Army again. 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 is party to international treaties and alliances that condemn any territorial claims. Romanian organizations in the region consider the area around the city Herza as historically belonging to Romania and occupied in defiance of international law in 1940 by the Soviet Union.