Rwakagarwa navaRuthenians (vaUkraine) navaMoldavians (vaRomania), rwakava rutivi rweKievan Rus' muzana ramakore rechi 10, uye rweMoldavia muzana ramakore rechi 14. Nharaunda yacho yave ichigarwa nevanhu vashoma kubvira paPaleolithic, nevanhu vanoverengeka vakafa zvino vanogara mairi. VaSlav vokutanga vakaoneka muBukovina muzana remakore rechina. Muzana ramakore rechi 10 rakava rutivi rweKievan Rus', uye gare gare rwePrincipality of Galicia. Tsika yeKyiv'Rus yakapararira mudunhu iri, neChechi yeBukovinian yaitungamirirwa kubva kuKyiv kusvika muna 1302, payakapfuurira kuHalych metropolis. Zvadaro, muzana remakore rechi14, Bukovina yakapinda muHungary. Mambo Louis I weHungary akagadza Dragoș, Voivode weMoldova semutevedzeri wake, akafambisa kutama kwevaRomania kubva kuMaramureș neTransylvania kuenda kunharaunda. Pashure pacho, vanhu vokuUkraine nevokuMoldova vakagara pamwe chete muBukovina, vachirwisana pamwe chete nevavengi uye vadzvinyiriri. Nzvimbo yakazozivikanwa seBukovina yaiva, kubva muna 1774 kusvika muna 1918, chikamu chokutonga cheHabsburg Monarchy, Umambo hweAustria, uye Austria-Hungary. Vanhu vomunharaunda vakaedza kubatanidza kuchamhembe kweRuthenian kuchamhembe kuWestern Ukrainian National Republic mukutanga kwezana ramakore rechi20. Zvisinei, Romania yakabata dunhu rose muna 1918, ichitevera mutemo weRomanization mudunhu racho. Muna 1940, hafu yokuchamhembe yeBukovina yakabatanidzwa
neSoviet Union mukuputsa Chibvumirano cheMolotov-Ribbentrop, chibvumirano chokusarwisa pakati peNazi Germany neSoviet Union. Gare gare, nharaunda yacho yakadzorerwa kwenguva pfupi neRomania semubatanidzwa weNazi Germany mushure mekunge yapedzisira yapinda muSoviet Union iyo, zvisinei, yakatora chikamu chekuchamhembe muna 1944. Nhoroondo inoratidza kuti vagari veBukovina "vaingova vanhu vokuUkraine kuchamhembe uye vokuRomania kumaodzanyemba, asi mumataundi maivawo nevaGermany, vokuPoland, uye vaJudha". Nhasi, kuchamhembe kweBukovina rutivi rweUkraine, nepo kumaodzanyemba kuri rutivi rweRomania.