Novoselytsia

Nowoselyzja (Ukrainian Новоселиця; Russian Новоселица / Novoselitsa, German Nowosielitza or rarely Unterstrojestie, Romanian Noua Sulita or Sulita; Polish Nowosielica ) is a town in the Ukrainian Chernivtsi Oblast with 8,147 inhabitants ( 2012). It lies on the left bank of the Pruths, about 26 km east of Chernivtsi in the area of ​​northern Bessarabia and Bukovina the eastern.

The city was first mentioned in writing in 1456 and then to 1812 belonged to the Principality of Moldavia. By the cession of Bessarabia a part of the city came to Russia, the western part had been incorporated since 1776 through Austria into the new region of Bukowina (often Austro- Nowosielitza unlike Russian Nowosielitza called ). Between the two districts was in the Prut until 1918, the tri-border region between Austria, Russia and Romania. On 12 July 1884, the route Chernivtsi Nowosielitza the Bukovina local railways was opened and 1893 by the construction of a new railway station with facilities for standard gauge and Russian broad gauge connection to the rail network of the Russian Südbahnen. By connecting the Bukovina and Bessarabia to Romania after the First World War, the city came in 1919 as a whole to Romania (in the circle Hotin ), but it was during the Soviet annexation of Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina on August 2, 1940, a part of the Soviet Union ( between 1941 -1944 turn to Romania) and since 1991 a part of independent Ukraine.