Mala Berezovytsia ( uk, Мала Березовиця; pl, Berezowica Mała) is a village in

Ternopil Raion Ternopil Raion ( uk, Тернопільський район) is a raion in Ternopil Oblast in western Ukraine. Its administrative center is Ternopil. It has a population of On 18 July 2020, as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, the n ...

Ternopil Oblast Ternopil Oblast ( uk, Тернопі́льська о́бласть, translit=Ternopilska oblast; also referred to as Ternopilshchyna, uk, Терно́пільщина, label=none, or Ternopillia, uk, Тернопілля, label=none) is an obl ...

, western

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. It belongs to

Zbarazh urban hromada Zbarazh ( uk, Збараж, pl, Zbaraż, yi, זבאריזש, Zbarizh) is a city in Ternopil Raion of Ternopil Oblast (province) of western Ukraine. It is located in the historic region of Galicia. Zbarazh hosts the administration of Zbarazh u ...

, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. Mala Berezovytsia has a current population of 230 people. It is the birthplace of Taras Levkiv, a Ukrainian artist specializing in

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. It is also the birthplace of Mieczysław Albert Krąpiec, Polish professor, philosopher, theologian and longtime rector of the Catholic University of Lublin. Berezowica mala cmentarz1

Mala Berezovytsia was the site of the massacre of

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perpetrated by the

Ukrainian Insurgent Army The Ukrainian Insurgent Army ( uk, Українська повстанська армія, УПА, translit=Ukrayins'ka povstans'ka armiia, abbreviated UPA) was a Ukrainian nationalist paramilitary and later partisan formation. During World ...

on February 22 and 23, 1944. Until 18 July 2020, Mala Berezovytsia belonged to

Zbarazh Raion Zbarazh Raion ( uk, Збаразький район) was a subdivision known as a ''raion'', of Ternopil Oblast of Ukraine. The administrative center was the city of Zbarazh. The raion was abolished on 18 July 2020 as part of the administrative r ...

. The raion was abolished in July 2020 as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced the number of raions of Ternopil Oblast to three. The area of Zbarazh Raion was split between

Kremenets Kremenets ( uk, Крем'янець, Кременець, translit. ''Kremianets'', ''Kremenets''; pl, Krzemieniec; yi, קרעמעניץ, Kremenits) is a city in Ternopil Oblast (province) of western Ukraine. It is the administrative center o ...

and Ternopil Raions, with Mala Berezovytsia being transferred to Ternopil Raion.

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