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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

He was two years at the Royal Opera House at Munich, three years at the German Opera House at Czernowitz, Roumania.

From Time Magazine Archive

Two days later Richard Mowrer turned up safe and well in Czernowitz, Rumania, to send the Daily News his story of the Soviet occupation.

From Time Magazine Archive

Czernowitz is one of the towns whose people have suffered most severely from the fluctuating tide of war.

From The Story of the Great War, Volume V (of 8) Battle of Jutland Bank; Russian Offensive; Kut-El-Amara; East Africa; Verdun; The Great Somme Drive; United States and Belligerents; Summary of Two Years' War by Churchill, Allen L. (Allen Leon)