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SUCZAWA (Rumanian, Suceava)

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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 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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