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The Hertsa region, also known as the Hertza region (Template:Lang-uk; Template:Lang-ro), is a region around the town of Hertsa within Chernivtsi Raion in the southern part of Chernivtsi Oblast in southwestern Ukraine, near the border with Romania. With an area of around 304 km (117 sq mi), it has a population of about 32,300 people (as of 2001), 93% of whom are ethnic Romanians.

History

The territory, historically part of Moldavia, was one of the five districts of Dorohoi County. Following the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact of 23 August 1939, the Soviet Union issued on 26 June 1940, an ultimatum to Romania that threatened the use of force. The Romanian government, responding to the Soviet ultimatum, agreed to withdraw from the territories to avoid a military conflict. A few days later, Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina were occupied by the Soviet Union, and the Hertsa region was attached to the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic. As it was not mentioned in the ultimatum, the annexation of the Hertsa region was not consented to by Romania. The region (together with the rest of Bessarabia and Bukovina) was recaptured by Romania during 1941–1944 in the course of the Axis attack on the Soviet Union in World War II, until the Red Army captured it again in 1944. Soviet annexation of this territory was internationally recognized by the Paris Peace Treaties in 1947.

Romania and Ukraine have signed and ratified a border agreement and are signatories of international treaties and alliances that denounce any territorial claims. Romanian organisations in the region consider Hertsa to be historically Romanian, detached from it by the Soviet Union in 1940 in violation of international law. The correspondent of "New Region", Sergei Vulpe, with reference to the Bucharest newspaper Ziua reported on 17 April 2008 that the President of Romania, Traian Băsescu, stated that if Ukraine wants to annex Transnistria, then they should return Southern Bessarabia (Budjak) and northern Bukovina (Chernivtsi Oblast that includes the Hertsa region) to Moldova.

See also

• Moldova
• Moldavia
• Bessarabia
• Bukovina
• Transnistria
• Budjak

References

1. Popescu, Ion (13 February 2005). "Crearea regiunii Cernăuți". Observatorul. Toronto. Retrieved 14 April 2021.
2. ^ Deletant, Dennis (2006). Hitler's Forgotten Ally: Ion Antonescu and His Regime, Romania, 1940–1944. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 1-4039-9341-6.
3. Moldoveanu, Gheorghe (2011). "Din istoria Ținutului Herța" (PDF). Revista Româna (in Romanian). 2 (64): 34–35. Archived from the original (PDF) on 3 December 2020. Retrieved 6 December 2020.
4. Blaga, Michael Nicholas. "Cum ne-a luat Molotov Bucovina și Ținutul Herței". Historia (in Romanian). Retrieved 6 December 2020.
5. "Траян Бэсеску: Украина должна "разменять" Приднестровье на Буковину и Бессарабию" [Traian Băsescu: Ukraine should "exchange" Transnistria for Bukovina and Bessarabia]. sufix.ru (in Russian).

External links

• "Ținutul Herța, pământ românesc" [Hertsa region, Romanian land]. Ziua (in Romanian). 25 April 2005. Archived from the original on 25 September 2021. Retrieved 6 December 2020. (Hertsa region Romanian organization protests against Ukrainian changes to its status as a raion.)
• Gherasim, Gabriel (7 August 2005). "Românii din Ucraina" [Romanians from Ukraine] (in Romanian). Archived from the original on 2007-12-08. Retrieved 6 December 2020. (One of the original authors of the Ukrainian Constitution speaks about the Hertsa region.)

v t e Historical regions in Romania
Banat (1918–)	Banat
Dobruja (1878–)	Northern Dobruja Southern Dobruja (1913–16; 1919–40)
Moldavia (1859–)	Bessarabia (1918–40; 1941–44) Budjak (1918–40; 1941–44) Bukovina (Southern Bukovina (1918–); Northern Bukovina (1918–40; 1941–44)) Hertsa (1859–1940; 1941–44) Western Moldavia
Transylvania (1918–)	Crișana Maramureș Székely Land
Wallachia (1859–)	Muntenia Oltenia
De jure since 1920 De jure since 1862 De jure ceded to Bulgaria and the Central Powers (except for the Danube Delta) between May 1918 and November 1919 De jure ceded to Bulgaria between May 1918 and November 1919 Southern Bessarabia in Romania (1859–78) De jure since 1919 Northern Transylvania in Hungary (1940–44) Only the eastern part Only the southern part Transylvania proper

• Moldavia
• Geography of Chernivtsi Oblast
• Historical regions in Ukraine
• Romanian diaspora in Ukraine
• Romania–Soviet Union relations
• Romania–Ukraine border
• Territorial disputes of the Soviet Union