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