Ka cika wannan jumlar: Mutanen Ruthenians (Ukrainians) da Moldavians (Romanians) sun zauna a ciki, ya zama ɓangare na Kievan Rus' a ƙarni na 10, kuma na Moldavia a ƙarni na 14. Yankin ba shi da yawan jama'a tun lokacin Paleolithic, tare da mutane da yawa da suka mutu yanzu suna zaune a ciki. Slavs na farko sun bayyana a Bukovina a karni na 4. A karni na 10 ya zama wani ɓangare na Kievan Rus', kuma daga baya na Yariman Galicia. Al'adun Kyiv'Rus sun bazu a yankin, tare da Ikilisiyar Bukovinian da ake gudanarwa daga Kyiv har zuwa 1302, lokacin da ta wuce zuwa Halych metropolis. Bayan haka, a ƙarni na 14, Bukovina ta zama ƙasar Hungary. Sarki Louis I na Hungary ya nada Dragoș, Voivode na Moldavia a matsayin mataimakinsa, ya sauƙaƙa ƙaurawar Romanians daga Maramureș da Transylvania zuwa yankin. Bayan haka, 'yan Ukraine da Moldovans suka zauna tare a Bukovina, suna yaƙi tare da masu mamayewa da kuma masu zalunci. Yankin abin da aka sani da Bukovina, daga 1774 zuwa 1918, wani yanki ne na mulkin mallaka na Habsburg, Daular Austriya, da Austria-Hungary. Mazauna yankin sun nemi haɗawa da arewacin Ruthenian na tarihi zuwa Jamhuriyar Kasa ta Yammacin Ukraine a farkon karni na 20. Koyaya, Romania ta kwace duk lardin a cikin 1918, tana bin manufofin Romanization a yankin. A shekara ta 1940, rabin arewacin Bukovina ya kasance
Tarayyar Soviet ta haɗu da ita ta hanyar keta yarjejeniyar Molotov-Ribbentrop, yarjejeniyar rashin cin zarafi tsakanin Nazi Jamus da Tarayyar Soviet. Bayan haka, Romania ta dawo da yankin na ɗan lokaci a matsayin abokin haɗin gwiwar Nazi Jamus bayan da wannan ya mamaye Tarayyar Soviet wanda, duk da haka, ya sake karɓar ɓangaren arewacin a 1944. Mutanen Bukovina a tarihi "kusan 'yan Ukrainian ne a arewa da kuma Romanian a kudu, yayin da a cikin garuruwan akwai wasu Jamusawa, Poles, da Yahudawa". A yau, arewacin Bukovina yana cikin Ukraine, yayin da kudancin yana cikin Romania.