SUCZAWA (Rumanian, Suceava)  , a town in Bukovina, Austria, 50 M . S. of Czernowitz by rail . Pop . (1900), 10,955 . It is situated on the river Suczawa, which forms there the boundary between Bukovina and Rumania . One of its two churches, dating from the 14th century, contains the grave of the patron saint of Bukovina . The principal industry is the tanning and leather trade . Not far from Suczawa lies the monastery of Dragomirna, in Byzantine style, built at the beginning of the 17th century . Suczawa is a very old town and was until 1565 the capital of the principality of Moldavia . It was many times besieged by Poles, Hungarians, Tatars and Turks . In 1675 it was besieged by Sobieski, and in 1679 it was plundered by the Turks .