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Novoselytsia (, ; , ; ; ) is a city in Chernivtsi Raion, Chernivtsi Oblast (oblast) of Ukraine. It stands at the northern tip of Bessarabia region, on its border with Bukovina. It hosts the administration of Novoselytsia urban hromada, one of the of Ukraine. Population:
From 1774 to 1877, Novoselytsia was at the tripoint between the Austrian Empire (Duchy of Bukovina), the Ottoman Empire (Principality of Moldavia, later Romania), and the Russian Empire (Bessarabia Governorate). The larger part of the settlement belonged to the Russian Empire and the smaller to the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy. After the secondary customs office in Boiany was closed in 1866, Novoselytsia was the only border point between Russian Bessarabia and Austrian Bukovina. With the inauguration of the train connection between the Russian and the Austrian province in 1893, Novoselytsia was also the fourth train junction between the two Empires.Philippe Henri Blasen and Andrei Cușco, "Noua-Suliță - Triplex Confinium. Experiențe transfrontaliere la periferiile imperiale (1869–1914),” in Ipostaze istorice ale mișcărilor de populație și modele identitare etnolingvistice actuale, ed. Flavius Solomon et al. (Bucharest: Editura Academiei Române, 2019), 225–256.
Until 18 July 2020, Novoselytsia served as an administrative center of Novoselytsia Raion. The raion was abolished in July 2020 as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced the number of raions of Chernivtsi Oblast to three. The area of Novoselytsia Raion was split between Chernivtsi and Dnistrovskyi Raions, with Novoselytsia being transferred to Chernivtsi Raion.
Until at least 2020, in the town, there was a raion Romanian-language newspaper, Cuvantul Adevarului.Ion Popescu and Constantin Ungureanu, Romanii din Ucraina - intre trecut si viitor, vol. 1 ( Romanii din Regiunea Cernauti), Cernauti, 2005, p. 260.
/ref> Unlike in the cities of Ukrainian southern Bessarabia except for Tatarbunary, where most Moldovans spoke Russian as their native language, most of the self-identified ethnic Moldovans and Romanians of Novoselytsia were Romanian-speaking in 2001.The Ukrainian census of 2001, ethnicity/nationality data by localities, at http://pop-stat.mashke.org/ukraine-ethnic2001.htm In 1989, the town had a mostly ethnically Ukrainian population which also included those with a Moldovan ethnic identity, who were 39.01% of the population, while those with a Romanian ethnic identity formed 1.53% of the population.Ion Popescu and Constantin Ungureanu, Romanii din Ucraina - intre trecut si viitor, vol. 1 ( Romanii din Regiunea Cernauti), Cernauti, 2005, p. 214. Thus, the proportion of the population with a Moldovan ethnic identity decreased and that with a Romanian ethnic identity increased from 1989 to 2001. Novoselytsia is the city in Ukraine with the largest proportion of the population with a Moldovan ethnic identity in the country; there is no city with an absolute Moldovan ethnic majority in Ukraine.The Ukrainian census of 2001, ethnicity/nationality data by localities, at http://pop-stat.mashke.org/ukraine-ethnic2001.htm It is also the city with the second largest Romanian-language percentage of the population, after
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In 2001, in the Novoselytska urban community, out of 32,104 inhabitants, 17,697 were Romanian-speaking (55.12%), out of which 51.59% called their language "Moldovan"
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In January 1989 the population was 8,384 people. Всесоюзная перепись населения 1989 г. Численность городского населения союзных республик, их территориальных единиц, городских поселений и городских районов по полуНовоселица // Большой энциклопедический словарь (в 2-х тт.). / редколл., гл. ред. А. М. Прохоров. том 2. М., "Советская энциклопедия", 1991. стр.41
In January 2013 the population was 7,774 people.
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