Chornivka ( Ukrainian : Чорнівка , Romanian : Cernăuca , German : Czernowka ) is a village in Chernivtsi Raion , Chernivtsi Oblast ( province ) of western Ukraine. It belongs to Chernivtsi urban hromada , one of the hromadas of Ukraine. It is located in the historic region of Bukovina ( Ukrainian : Буковина ), approximately 22 km from the oblast capital, Chernivtsi .
4-517: The current estimated population is 2,340 (as of 2005). As of 2005, the mayor was Gheorghe Bota. Chornivka is home to the ancestral estate of the Hurmuzachi brothers , a well-known family of Romanian aristocrats, lawyers and historians from the 19th century. The mansion was transformed into a museum in October 1999. In the 17th century, the estate had been in the possession of the family of Ion Neculce ,
8-457: A Moldavian chronicler. It had come into the family's possession by marriage, as a wedding gift to Neculce's mother. It was then passed on to one of Neculce's sisters. The oldest church, built by the Hurmuzachi family, dates back to 1852. Until 18 July 2020, Chornivka belonged to Novoselytsia Raion . The raion was abolished in July 2020 as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced
12-605: The Romanian national movement in Bukovina and elsewhere. Their estate was a center of activity for Romanians during the Revolutions of 1848 , and they were later a key source of material and financial support to nationalist exiles, as well as a point of contact through whom the ideas of the exiles reentered the country. Their father was Doxachi (Doxache, Doxaki) Hurmuzachi (Hurmuzaki) . Eudoxiu and Alexandru Hurmuzachi were members of
16-628: The number of raions of Chernivtsi Oblast to three. The area of Novoselytsia Raion was split between Chernivtsi and Dnistrovskyi Raions , with Chornivka being transferred to Chernivtsi Raion. Hurmuzachi brothers The Hurmuzachi brothers , Alexandru (1823–1871), Constantin (1811–1869), Eudoxiu (1812–1874), Gheorghe (1817–1882), and Nicolae (1826–1909), were members of an old Hurmuzachi family of Romanian nobles in Austrian Bukovina with an estate in Cernăuca . They were activists in
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