SUCEAVA REGION, UPPER LAND, GREATER BUKOVINA OR JUST BUKOVINA? CAROL II’S ADMINISTRATIVE REFORM IN NORTH−EASTERN ROMANIA (1938−1940)
SUCEAVA REGION, UPPER LAND, GREATER BUKOVINA OR JUST BUKOVINA? CAROL II’S ADMINISTRATIVE REFORM IN NORTH−EASTERN ROMANIA (1938−1940)

Summary/Abstract: This paper focuses on the territorial aspect of the Romanian Administrative Law of 1938, in particular on the reception of the Law in the counties of Bukovina, Hotin/Khotyn and Dorohoi. It concludes that Suceava Region, created by this Law, failed to erase the memory of former Austrian Bukovina (1775−1918) nor did it revive the pre-1775 Moldavian Upper Land. Periodicals in Bukovina, Hotin and Dorohoi remained uninterested in the new fellow counties. The Law induced a label change, allowing the people from Bukovina to continue to profess a Bukovinian belonging, even though the aim of the Law was to abolish regionalisms.

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