#bukovina

[mioritic]

Detail from a diagram depicting the "Ladder of Virtues" (or "Ladder of Divine Ascent") fresco on the north wall of Sucevița Monastery

Wilhelm Nyssen, Bildgesang der Erde. Außenfresken der Moldauklöster in Rumänien (Cologne: Luthe-Verlag, 1994)

[hiddenromania]

Spring is coming symbolically with one of the most beautiful local customs (to be sure, Bulgarians have the same custom).

Mărțișor is an old tradition celebrated all over Romania every year, on March 1st. The name Mărțișor is a diminutive of March (Martie in Romanian). On this day, Romanians buy silky red-white threads (șnur) tied into a bow to which a small trinket (or, as in this picture, Spring flowers) is attached and offer them to their (female) family members, friends and colleagues to show friendship, respect or admiration. It is believed that the person who wears the red and white string would enjoy a prosperous and healthy year. In eastern Romania ( Moldavia and Bukovina), the red and white string was complemented with a small - gold or silver - coin. After wearing the coin for twelve days, the women would buy fresh cheese with it, hoping that their skin would be healthy and beautiful the entire year.

Much like in Bulgaria, the custom is clearly very old, pre-Christian and linked to fertility cults. Mărțișor trinkets initially consisted of small river pebbles, colored in white and red, stringed on a thread and worn around the neck. They were worn, to bring good luck and good weather, from March 1 until the first trees would bloom. When the first trees were flowering the Mărțișor were hanged on tree branches.

[bobemajses]

Jewish cemetery in Siret, Romania, southern Bukovina

[witekspicsoldpostcards]

Bukowina - now = land between Ukraine & Romania.

[fallauween]

in the autumn forest by Ivan Nikolaichuk

[everydayescapist]

[shattered-lines]

#bukowiski

[tonreihe]

[aradxan]

[mioritic]

Burial shroud of Maria of Mangop, Princess consort of Moldavia (died 1477)

From Putna Monastery, Suceava County, Romania

[hiddenromania]

Sucevița Monastery, Bucovina

[bobemajses]

Tombstone in the Jewish cemetery of Suceava, Romania, 1970s

[ailichi]

I can hear Kalush Orchestra doing their soundcheck from my café terrace👌🏻

[barstoolblues]

at multiple times on both sides of my family and even across both sides of my family there were future in laws living within miles of each other in winnipeg kawartha lakes AND regina. HOW DOES THIS HAPPEN IN 3 DIFFERENT PLACES IN CANADA!

[weirdlizard26]

reading dracula daily is so heartwarming im seeing so many familiar words and locations and its just like woah. i exist huh

[playitagin]

1940-Soviet occupation of Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina

The Soviet occupation of Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina took place from June 28 to July 3, 1940, as a result of an ultimatum by the Soviet Union to Romania on June 26, 1940, that threatened the use of force.[3] Those regions, with a total area of 50,762 km2 (19,599 sq mi) and a population of 3,776,309 inhabitants, were incorporated into the Soviet Union.[4][5] On October 26, 1940, six Romanian islands on the Chilia branch of the Danube, with an area of 23.75 km2 (9.17 sq mi), were also occupied by the Soviet Army.

Bessarabia, Northern Bukovina and Hertsa remained part of the Soviet Union until it collapsed in 1991, when they became part of the newly independent states of Moldova and Ukraine. The Declaration of Independence of Moldova of August 27, 1991, declared the Soviet occupation illegal.