Iancu Flondor (3 August 1865 – 19 October 1924) was a

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n politician who advocated

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's union with the

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. He was born in the town of Storozhynets () in Northern Bukovina (now in

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). His parents were Gheorghe Flondor (1828–1892) and Isabella von Dobrowolski-Buchenthal (1835–1890). Married to Elena de Zotta, he fathered three sons: Șerban (1900–1971), Neagoe (1901–1952), and Mircea (1908–1928).C. Al. Racovitza, Mihai Pânzaru
"Flondorii"
from ''Magazin Istoric'', nr. 6, 2000. After graduating in 1884 from the German High School in Czernowitz with a baccalaureate degree, he studied at the Faculty of Law in

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(1885–1888), and obtained the title of Doctor of Law from the

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in 1894. During the winter of 1918, Flondor clashed with his rival Aurel Onciul over the political future of Bukovina, a dispute which culminated in the November request by the National Council of Bukovina, headed by Flondor, for an intervention by the

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into what had become a chaotic Bukovina at the end of

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. Under those circumstances, the Romanian government in

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, wishing to protect the population, decided to send to Bukovina the 8th Division under the command of General Iacob Zadik, who entered Cernăuți, on 9 November 1918. On 12 November, the National Council of Bukovina effectively took the helm of Bukovina, forming a cabinet headed by Iancu Flondor. On 15/28 November 1918, the debates of

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opened at the Metropolitan Palace in Cernăuți and decided: "The unconditional and eternal union of Bukovina — within its old boundaries up to the rivers Ceremuș, Colacin, and

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— to the Kingdom of Romania". Grab des Iancu de Flondor in Storojinet

He died in Cernăuṭi (now

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), and was buried in Storojineṭ. A bust of Flondor, sculpted by , was unveiled in

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in 2009. A street in Sector 2 of

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bears his name.

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