which region of central europe is bukovina located?
Bukovina Bukovina (Romanian: "Bucovina" ; German: "Buchenland" ; Polish: "Bukowina" ; Ukrainian: Буковина "Bukovyna"; see also other languages) is a historical region in Central Europe, divided between Romania and Ukraine, located on the northern slopes of the central Eastern Carpathians and the adjoining plains.
Carpathian Ruthenia Carpathian Ruthenia, Carpatho-Ukraine, or Zakarpattia (Rusyn and Ukrainian: Карпатська Русь , "Karpats'ka Rus' " , or Rusyn and Ukrainian: Закарпаття , "Zakarpattja " ; Slovak and ; Hungarian: "Kárpátalja" ; Romanian: "Transcarpatia" ; Polish: "Zakarpacie" ; German: "Karpatenukraine" ) is a historic region in the border between Central and Eastern Europe, mostly located in western Ukraine's Zakarpattia Oblast, with smaller parts in easternmost Slovakia (largely in Prešov Region and Košice Region) and Poland's Lemkovyna. Before World War I most of this region was part of the Habsburg Kingdom of Hungary. In the interwar period, it was part of the First and Second Czechoslovak Republic. During World War II, the region was annexed by the Kingdom of Hungary once again. After the war, it became part of Soviet Ukraine.