Șipenit

Șipeniț was a frontier land between the Prut and Dniester, with the fortress of Țețina among its principal centres. The fortress stood on a wooded height west of the Prut, overlooking the approaches to Cernăuți. Medieval records name it in 1395, and in 1404 its governor Hodco was among the Moldavian boyars who pledged loyalty to the Polish king alongside Alexander the Good.

The position of Șipeniț made it a subject of Moldavian and Polish claims in the fifteenth century. In 1436 Prince Iliaș promised to cede the land and its fortresses to Poland, though historians dispute whether the transfer was carried out. Long after its military importance had faded, stone from the ruins of Țețina was used for buildings in Cernăuți under Austrian administration in the 1780s.