Ițcani
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Ițcani (German: Itzkany) is a neighbourhood of Suceava, the county seat town (Romanian: oraș reședință de județ) of Suceava County (Romanian: Județul Suceava) in the historical region of Bukovina (Romanian: Bucovina, German: Bukowina/Buchenland), northeastern Romania, located some 5 km northwest of the town center. Ițcani was initially established in the 15th century, following a 1453 document issued by Alexăndrel, Domn (i.e. Prince) of Moldavia.
Along with the rest of Bukovina (or the highlands of the former medieval Principality of Moldavia), it became part of the Habsburg monarchy during the late 18th century and then, gradually, of the Austrian Empire and Austria-Hungary (pertaining to Cisleithania or the Austrian-ruled realms of the former Central European dual monarchy). During the 1780s, 8 ethnic German families settled here in the course of the Josephine colonization (German: Josephinische kolonisation or Josephinisches siedlung).[1]
After the unification of Bukovina with the Kingdom of Romania in 1918, Ițcani was subsequently recorded on official population censuses by the Romanian authorities as a commune composed of two separate villages, more specifically Ițcanii Noi (German: Neu Itzkany) and Ițcani Gară (German: Itzkany Bahnhof).
Furthermore, according to the 1930 Romanian census, as much as 45% of the commune's population was composed of ethnic Germans (i.e. Bukovina Germans), many of whom were later forcefully re-settled in occupied Poland during World War II as part of the Heim ins Reich policy plan initiated by Nazi Germany. Suceava North railway station (German: Itzkany Banhof) is located in Ițcani.