Czerno'witz, the capital of the Austrian province of Bukowina, stands 720 feet above sea-level, near the right bank of the Pruth, 165 miles SE. of Lemberg by rail. Among its buildings are the palace of a Greek archbishop (1875); his cathedral (1864), on the model of St Isaac's at St
Petersburg; the Armenian church (1875); the synagogue (1877); and the 'Austria Monument' (1875). The university, founded in 1875, has 36 instructors and some 225 students. The manufactures and trade are steadily developing. Pop. (1869) 33,884; (1890) 54,171, of whom more than a third are Jews.