In 1775, the Habsburg Empire annexed the territory of northern Moldavia – Bucovina, with the former seat of Suceava and the cities of Cernăuți, Câmpulung, Baia, Siret. According to Article II of the Convention (in four articles) of territorial cession and demarcation, concluded in Constantinople between Austria and Turkey (April 26 / May 7, 1775), the cession of Bucovina was stipulated, establishing the new territorial limits. In the context of that mutilating partition from 1775, popular memory also remembered the tragic death of Prince Grigore Alexandru Ghica III, who was assassinated by the Turks on October 2, 1777. In the 18th century, Moldova suffered a lot due to the conflict of interests between Russia, Habsburg Austria and the Ottoman Empire. The first partition of Poland in 1772 between AustriaRussia-Prussia was far from reconciling the conflicting interests of these European powers and showed the possibility of new territorial conquests at the expense of weaker neighbors even in peacetime. Among them was that part in the north of the Principality of Moldavia – “Upper Country”, which was captured in the maelstrom of political-military events during and after the Russo-Turkish War of 1768-1774. The political names “Bukovina” and “Bessarabia”, attributed to the so-called independent political-territorial entities of Moldova, never existed as such, except for simple geographical delimitations of the south or north of the country within its recognized borders (especially from a national point of view). These titles came about following the annexation of these parts of the principality under Ottoman suzerainty by the Habsburg Empire in 1775 and by the Russian Empire, respectively, in 1812; the mentioned names belong exclusively to these Empires, which wanted to separate these regions from Moldova – at least politico-diplomatically, with new names, of the annexed territories.