'circle') – of the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria[1] within the Habsburg monarchy (from 1804 the Austrian Empire) in Bukovina, annexed from Moldavia.

[8] The final decision on the future management of the region was made on August 6, 1786, during the stay in Lviv of Joseph II,[9] who liquidated his Patent The Military Administration of Bukovina (as having fulfilled its mission during the transition period) and annexed the Bukovina District (in full) to the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria as the Chernivtsi District, later renamed the Bukovina District.

The period of the region's status as a district of the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria is characterized by a significant increase in population, mainly due to immigrants, colonizers and more.

Prior to that, the population was rewritten exclusively for a religion that blurred the boundaries between Ruthenians (Ukrainians) and Wallachians (Romanians), generalizing them as Orthodox.

In 1854, while the district was detached from Galicia and Lodomeria, Bukovina was divided into 15 Bezirke (districts) – Dorna, Putilla, Wysznitz, Kimpolung, Solka, Gurahumora, Sereth, Waskoutz am Czeremosz, Sadagura, Storoschinetz, Kotzmann, Zastawna, Suczawa, Radautz and Czernowitz (environs) – plus the Stadtbezirk (city-district) of Czernowitz.