half of the XII-th century. First documentary reference dates from
1408. It was a town in the Polish-Lithuanian kingdom and the chief center of the area known as Bukovina.Guess the name of the city comes from a populous city-fortress on the southern borders of the Galician power, which was called "Chern’", built on the left shore of the river Prut.
Chernivtsi in the XX-th century.