General Congress of Bukovina

General Congress of Bukovina
Type
Type
Leadership
President
Seats 100
Meeting place
Czernowitz

General Congress of Bukovina was a self-proclaimed representative body created in the aftermath of the Romanian military intervention in Bukovina, which proclaimed the union of region with the Kingdom of Romania in 1918.

On 28 Nov 1918,[1] the Congress elected Iancu Flondor as chairman, and voted for the union with the Kingdom of Romania, with the full support of the Romanian, German, and Polish representatives; the Ukrainians did not want to participate.[2][3]

There were six Polish representatives: Bazyli Duzinkiewikz, Emil Kaminski, Stanisław (Stanislaus) Kwiatkowski, Wladislaw Pospiszil, Leopold Szweiger, Edmund Wicentowicz.[4] Among the Romanian representatives there were Iancu Flondor, Vladimir Repta, Dionisie Bejan, Ion Nistor, Octavian Gheorghian, Radu Sbiera, Vasile Bodnarescu, Gheorghe Sandru, Vasile Marcu, Dimitrie Bucevschi, Gheorghe Voicu, Vasile Alboi-Sandru, Ion Candrea, Eudoxiu Hurmuzachi.

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  1. ↑ Irina Livezeanu (2000). Cultural Politics in Greater Romania: Regionalism, Nation Building & Ethnic Struggle, 1918-1930. Cornell University Press. pp. 59–. ISBN 0-8014-8688-2.
  2. ↑ Constantin Kiriţescu (1989). Istoria războiului pentru întregirea României: 1916 - 1919. Ed. S̨tiint̨ifică s̨i Enciclopedică. ISBN 978-973-29-0048-2.
  3. ↑ Minoritatea ucraineana din Romania (1918-1940)
  4. ↑ Grigore Nandris, Zile traite in Bucovina, in Amintiri razlete din vremea Unirii, Cernauti, 1938, p. 256.
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