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Czernowitz

American  
[cher-naw-vits] / ˈtʃɛr nɔ vɪts /

noun

  1. the German name of Chernivtsi.


Czernowitz British  
/ ˈtʃɛrnovɪts /

noun

  1. the German name for Chernovtsy

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Landing in a cornfield, he soon connected with his father and fled to Czernowitz, where they stayed in the Jewish ghetto before being taken east to forced-labor camps in Transnistria.

From Washington Post • Jan. 4, 2018

Wait until you get to the part where Gruber is shown preparing veal chops Czernowitz, stuffed with wild mushrooms and garlic; you’ll understand.

From Washington Post • Mar. 25, 2015

Their leader, M. Robu, was last week made prefect of Czernowitz, city with the largest Jewish population in the country.

From Time Magazine Archive

"Everything I am," says Reder, "I owe to Czernowitz," the Ukrainian city where he was born, the son of a Jewish innkeeper.

From Time Magazine Archive

Lutsk, Dubno, and Czernowitz were some of the valuable prizes which had fallen into the hands of the czar's armies.

From The Story of the Great War, Volume VI (of VIII) History of the European War from Official Sources by Reynolds, Francis J. (Francis Joseph)