Bila Krynytsya
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Bila Krynytsya (Ukrainian: Біла Криниця, Romanian: Fântâna Albă) is a village in the Chernivtsi Oblast (province) of western Ukraine. It is located in the Hlybotsky Raion (district), on the Ukrainian-Romanian border, in the historic region of Bukovina (Ukrainian: Буковина). The international frontier runs just a few hundred metres south of the village.
The current estimated population is 169 (as of 2006).
The First Hierarch of the Belokrinitskaya Hierarchy of the Orthodox Old-Rite Church nominally has the seat of his ecclesiastical See in Bila Krynytsya.
[edit] History
Bila Krynytsya was founded c.1770. In 1941, it was the site of the Fântâna Albă incident.
[edit] Further reading
- Short text on Bila Krynytsya published as hidden europe e-news, No. 2006 / 20 (August 2006)
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Administrative divisions of Chernivtsi Oblast, Ukraine |  |
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Raions: Hertsaivskyi | Hlybotskyi | Kelmenetskyi | Khotynskyi | Kitsmanskyi | Novoselytskyi | Putylskyi | Sokyrianskyi | Storozhynetskyi | Vyzhnytskyi | Zastavnivskyi |
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Cities: Chernivtsi | Hertsa | Khotyn | Kitsman | Novodnistrovsk | Novoselytsia | Sokyriany | Vashkivtsi | Vyzhnytsia | Zastavna |
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Urban-type settlements: Berehomet | Hlyboka | Kelmenetsi | Kostryzhivka | Krasnoilsk | Luzhany | Nepolokivtsi | Putyla | Storozhynets | more... |
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Villages: Bila Krynytsya | Boiany | Chornivka | Voloka | more... |
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