Mahala, Novoselytsia Raion

Mahala (Ukrainian Магала; Russian Magala ) is a predominantly Romanian -born population of inhabited village in the Ukrainian Chernivtsi Oblast. It lies on the left bank of the Pruths, about 6 km north-east of Chernivtsi in the area of ​​eastern Bukovina.

The village belonged until 1776 to the Principality of Moldavia and was then incorporated Austria into the new region of Bukowina. After the end of World War II, the place came to Romania ( county Cernăuţi ), but was in the wake of annexation of Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina on August 2, 1940, a part of the Soviet Union ( 1941-1945 intervening turn to Romania) and since 1991 a part of the Ukraine.

Since 1884 the site has a south-west of the village situated breakpoint at the current railway line Chernivtsi - Ocniţa.

Together with the villages of Buda ( Буда ) Ostryzja ( Остриця ) and Prut forms the village of the same district municipality Mahala.

Personalities

  • Grigore Nandriş, (1895-1968) - Romanian linguist and philologist
  • Dmytro Popytschuk, Ukrainian folk musicians
  • Place in the Chernivtsi Oblast
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