Hertza region

[[Image:Tschernowitz historical.PNG|thumb|right|350px|Historical regions outlined: red: northern [[Bukovina]], '''blue''': Hertza region, green: northern [[Bessarabia]]]] [[Image:Cvethnic1980.png|thumb|350px|Ethnic divisions in Chernivtsi Oblast with [[Ukrainians]], [[Romanians]], [[Russians]], [[Moldovans]] and [[Jews]] depicted in white, blue, red, and yellow respectively]] '''Hertza region''' ({{lang-ro|Ţinutul Herţa}}, [[Ukrainian language|Ukrainian]]: Край Герца ''Kraj Herca'') is the territory of an administrative district ([[raion]]) of [[Hertza Raion|Hertsa]] (Herţa) in the southern part of [[Chernivtsi Oblast]] in southwestern [[Ukraine]], on the [[Romania]]n border. The population in 2001 was about 32,300 people, 93% of whom are ethnic [[Romanian people|Romanians]]. [[Soviet occupation of Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina|The territory was occupied]] by the [[Soviet Union]] in 1940, following the [[Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact]], and was attached to the [[Ukrainian SSR|Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic]]. It was recaptured by Romania during 1941–1944 in the course of the [[Axis powers|Axis]] attack on the Soviet Union in [[Eastern Front (World War II)|World War II]], and became part of the [[Dorohoi County]] of [[Bukovina Governorate]] until the [[Red Army]] captured it again in 1944. Soviet [[annexation]] of this territory was internationally recognized by the [[Paris Peace Treaties, 1947|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 Hertza to be historically Romanian, detached from it by the Soviet Union in 1940 in violation of international law.{{Citation needed|date=May 2010}} ==External links== [http://www.ziua.net/display.php?id=176289&data=2005-05-17 Hertza region Romanian organization protests against Ukrainian changes to its status as a raion] [http://noinu.rdscj.ro/article.php?articleID=149 One of the original Authors of the Ukrainian Constitution speaks about the Hertza region] {{Romanian historical regions}} {{coord missing|Ukraine}}