Bila Krynytsya

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Bila Krynytsya (Ukrainian: Біла Криниця, Romanian: Fântâna Albă) is a village in the Chernivtsi Oblast (province) of western Ukraine. It is located in the Hlybotsky Raion (district) on the Ukrainian-Romanian border in the historic region of Bukovina (Ukrainian: Буковина). The international frontier runs just a few hundred metres south of the village.

The current estimated population is 169 (as of 2006).

The First Hierarch of the Belokrinitskaya Hierarchy of the Orthodox Old-Rite Church nominally has the seat of his ecclesiastical See in Bila Krynytsya.

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Bila Krynytsya was founded c.1770, and in 1941, it was the site of the Fântâna Albă incident.

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