Bu·ko·vi·na also Bu·co·vi·na (b  k -v  n) A historical region of eastern Europe in western Ukraine and northeast Romania. A part of the Roman province of Dacia, it was overrun by barbarian hordes after the third century a.d. The area was later controlled by Kiev, the Ottoman Empire, and Austria. |
Bukovina, Bucovina [ˌbuːkəˈviːnə]
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(Placename) a region of E central Europe, part of the NE Carpathians: the north was seized by the Soviet Union (1940) and later became part of the Ukraine; the south remained Romanian
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