Zastavna

Zastavna (Ukrainian and Russian Заставна; Zastawna German, Romanian Zastavna, Polish Zastawna ) is a Rajonshauptstadt in the Ukrainian Chernivtsi Oblast. It lies about 25 km west of Czernowitz, the name means " under the ponds " and derives from the situation on the many ponds around.

The city was first mentioned in writing in 1589 and was until 1774 the Principality of Moldavia. From 1774 to 1918 he was a part of Austria -Hungary and from 1849 in Bukowina. The town grew slowly, 1910, the station north of downtown lying opened on the opened in January 1910 Lokalbahn Werenczanka - Okna the New Bukovina local railway company, at the end of the Empire the town was the seat of a district office and the court, in 1940, he became the city ​​appointed.

After the end of World War II, 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 ( 1941-1945 intervening turn to Romania) and is since 1991 a part of the Ukraine.

List of Ukrainian oblasts and territories by population Raions of Ukraine Zastavna Raion Classification of objects of the administrative-territorial system of Ukraine Administrative divisions of Ukraine Raion Hertsa Kitsman Novodnistrovsk Novoselytsia Sokyriany Storozhynets Vashkivtsi Berehomet Kelmentsi Kostryzhivka Krasnoilsk Luzhany Nepolokivtsi Putyla
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