Tarasivtsi ( ro, Tărăsăuți; uk, Тарасівці; russian: Тарасовцы) is a village in

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in Chernivtsi Raion, Chernivtsi Oblast. It belongs to

Vanchykivtsi rural hromada Vanchykivtsi ( uk, Ванчиківці; ro, Vancicăuții Mari) is a village in Chernivtsi Raion, Chernivtsi Oblast, Ukraine. It hosts the administration of Vanchykivtsi rural hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. Until 18 July 2020, Van ...

, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. The population of the village is more than 5000 people, of which 95% are ethnic

Romanians The Romanians ( ro, români, ; dated exonym '' Vlachs'') are a Romance-speaking ethnic group. Sharing a common Romanian culture and ancestry, and speaking the Romanian language, they live primarily in Romania and Moldova. The 2011 Roman ...

and

Moldovans Moldovans, sometimes referred to as Moldavians ( ro, moldoveni , Moldovan Cyrillic: молдовень), are a Romance-speaking ethnic group and the largest ethnic group of the Republic of Moldova (75.1% of the population as of 2014) and a si ...

. Until 18 July 2020, Tarasivtsi belonged to

Novoselytsia Raion Novoselytsia Raion ( uk, Новоселицький район, ro, Raionul Noua Suliță ) was a raion (administrative district) in Chernivtsi Oblast, (province) in the west of Ukraine. The western part of its territory lied in the historical re ...

. The raion was abolished in July 2020 as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced the number of raions of Chernivtsi Oblast to three. The area of Novoselytsia Raion was split between Chernivtsi and

Dnistrovskyi Raion Dnistrovskyi Raion ( uk, Дністровський район) is a raion (district) of Chernivtsi Oblast, Ukraine. It was created in July 2020 as part of the reform of administrative divisions of Ukraine. The center of the raion is the urban-typ ...

s, with Tarasivtsi being transferred to Chernivtsi Raion. Tarasivtsi was notable as the only place in Ukraine where the

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language had been designated as a regional language. This occurred after Ukraine permitted regional languages to be designated in August 2012. The

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on 28 February 2018 ruled this legislation unconstitutional. Tarasivtsi (Tărăsauți) is located next to the Romanian border. The river

Prut The Prut (also spelled in English as Pruth; , uk, Прут) is a long river in Eastern Europe. It is a left tributary of the Danube. In part of its course it forms Romania's border with Moldova and Ukraine. Characteristics The Prut originates ...

flows through the village."Popov: No bilingualism in Kyiv", ''Kyiv Post'', September 19, 2012
/ref> The village is known for having diasporas in

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, and others.

Notable people

Anatoly Tikhai Father Anatoly Tikhai was a hieromonk who went to Japan in the early 1870s to assist Fr. Nicholas in his missionary work in Japan. Initially, the future St. Nicholas of Japan assigned Fr. Anatoly to his original church in Hakodate on Hokkaido islan ...

Yakov Tikhai Yakov Dmitriyevich Tikhai (russian: Яков Дмитриевич Тихай pronounced tee-'high) was a Russian orthodox composer, liturgist, and missionary. With Dmitri Lvovsky, he established a liturgical music school in Tokyo on the grounds o ...

References

Villages in Chernivtsi Raion Khotinsky Uyezd Populated places on the Prut {{Chernivtsi-geo-stub