Bucovina is a part of the Moldavian Principality, which is now a unique region of multi-ethnic cohabitation situated “between East and West”. From a geographic point of view, Bucovina belongs to the eastern part of Europe. From a geopolitical point of view, Bucovina played for a long time the role of a region situated at the crossroads of the influence areas of the Austrian, Russian and Ottoman Empire. Ethnically speaking, it was substantially modified because of the influences in time of the German and Jewish Kulturträger who spoke German or Yiddish in the period 1775-1918, of the Slav and Soviet in the post-war period. As a consequence of the cultural, political and economic development, the south of Bucovina is currently inhabited by Romanians, Ukrainians, Polish, Ruthenians, Hutsuls and gypsies, their number changing depending on the historical period and the influences of the geographic position.