Bucovina and Dalmatia

"In spite of protests by Dalmatian parliamentarians, who objected to the ‘Romanian-Ruthenian’ character of the new Metropoly and who maintained that such a decision could not be taken without prior approval by the Orthodox Church authorities, the Metropoly of Bukovina and Dalmatia was established in 1873."

https://pure.uva.nl/ws/files/1531434/126251_thesis.pdf

I am intrigued by the mentioning in this work of the name of Dalmatians as a distinct ethnicity in Bucovina, but not so much. Austro-Hungarians had this habit of moving people around their empire from one province to another to weaken local opposition. For about at least one hundred years both provinces where simultaneously part of the Austro-Hungarian empire but i find no mention of their migrations.

As a result of this policy, as seen on the map below, Bucovina in 1918, after 144 years of Austrian rule (after it was taken from Moldova) was formed of 6 different ethnicities in approximately in equal numbers though not evenly distributed, but there is no mention of migration of Dalmatians. (middle click on it for bigger size).

https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiixtlKKpAar-DF7MRS2jX0zLdFHBq334rCdRyLYXHx88qipXkJLxxDsIPj3XKemKxN4cp8T_6gEZQxIXEQUY23G12WKR7q3ylH3OaoqXG2KWNTPYuYQdx2DJ3VLfXCs5ohFbhv5efaGwE/s1600/Ethno.jpg

Could it be the "Huzulen" mentioned on the legend of this map be the Dalmatians.

https://www.slavorum.org/forum/topic/white-croats/page/6/

https://www.google.com/search?q=hutsul+magic

"The name Bukovina came into official use in 1775 with the region's annexation from the Principality of Moldavia to the possessions of the Habsburg Monarchy (which became the Austrian Empire in 1804, and Austria-Hungary in 1867)."

However the name could be local Dacian, which could be a language closely related to Sanskrit. भूक जिन in Sanskrit could mean anything from "time or heart of victory" to "heart of the old".

The main historical square of the city of Chernivtsi, capital of the historic Bucovina is called Residence of Bukovinian and Dalmatian Metropolitans

Also note the resemblance of today's flag of the whole of Ukraine and the flag of historic Kingdom of Dalmatia, now part of Croatia (ex-Yugoslavia).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Dalmatia#/media/File:Flag_of_the_Kingdom_of_Dalmatia.svg

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Flag_of_Ukraine.svg/1280px-Flag_of_Ukraine.svg.png

One of the ethnicities also brought by Austrians in Bucovina where Ruthenians that are also mentioned on the map above.

I was surprised to find out the current Minister of Economy and Trade of Ukraine since December 2014 was born in Lithuania.

And finally.

U-krainian. White Croatian. Graz. Craiova. Grația.

Smiljan, Birth place of Nikola Tesla was a few miles away of the northern limit of Dalmatia, now both part of Croatia. Tesla studied at The Polytechnic Institute (Graz, Austria) worked in Budapest and Paris (just before Eiffel tower was erected) before moving to the US at invitation of Edison where he build another tower during which existence the Tunguska event took place and subsequent WWI, Soviet Union and WWII occurred.

Last cover of the weekly satirical Romanian publication Cațavencii, after the recent visit of pope Francis in Romania suggesting President of Romania, Prime Minster, others are "Dalmatians".