MONASTERIES & RARAU MOUNTAINS I BUCOVINA I ROMANIA

The name Bukovina came into official use in 1775 with the region's annexation from the Principality of Moldavia to the possessions of the Habsburg Monarchy, which became the Austrian Empire in 1804, and Austria-Hungary in 1867.The official German name of the province under Austrian rule (1775–1918), die Bukovina, was derived from the Polish form Bukowina, which in turn was derived from the common Slavic form of Buk, meaning beech tree. Another German name for the region, das Buchenland, is mostly used in poetry, and means "beech land", or "the land of beech trees". In Romanian, in literary or poetic contexts, the name Țara Fagilor ("the land of beech trees") is sometimes used. In English, an alternative form is The Bukovina, increasingly an archaism, which, however, is found in older literature.