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Kryvenke
Kryvenke (, ) is a village in Ukraine, Ternopil Oblast, Chortkiv Raion, Husiatyn settlement hromada. History The first written mention of the settlement is a record of the Polish king for the village of Kryve, Skalsk district for Andrzej of Babshyn, dated 17 July 1413. From 1 December 2020, Kryvenke has belonged to the Husiatyn settlement hromada. Religion * Church of John the Baptist (UGCC; 1757; brick; rebuilt in 1987) Notable residents * Bohdan Lepky (1872–1941), Ukrainian writer, poet, scholar, public figure, and artist * Sylvester Lepkyi (1845–1901), Ukrainian writer, religious and public figureПарафія с. Кривеньке. Церква Усікновення голови святого Івана Хрестителя // Бучацька єпархія УГКЦ. Парафії, монастирі, храми. Шематизм / Автор концепції Куневич Б.; керівник проєкту, науковий редактор Стоцький ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bohdan Lepky
Bohdan Teodor Nestor Sylvestrovych Lepky, (, 9 November 1872 – 21 July 1941) was a Ukrainian writer, poet, scholar, public figure, and artist. He was born on 9 November 1872, in the village of Kryvenke, in the same house where the Polish insurgent Bogdan Jarocki once lived. He spent his childhood in Krohulets.''Герасимов Г. П''Лепкий Богдан Сильвестрович// Encyclopedia of History of Ukraine : у 10 т. / редкол.: В. А. Смолій (голова) та ін. ; Інститут історії України НАН України. — К. : Наукова думка, 2009. — Т. 6 : Ла — Мі. — S. 123. — ISBN 978-966-00-1028-1. Son of Ukrainian writer and Greek Catholic priest Sylvester Lepkyi. Education Bohdan was sent to a normal school in Berezhany at the age of six, where he started in the second grade. In 1883 he started attending the gymnasium at the same town. Lepky would later recall that most young Ukrain ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Husiatyn Settlement Hromada
Husiatyn settlement hromada ( is a hromada in Ukraine, in Chortkiv Raion of Ternopil Oblast. The administrative center is the urban-type settlement of Husiatyn. Its population is History It was formed on 15 July 2015 by merging the Husiatyn settlement council and Vilkhivchyk and Sukhodil rural councils of Husiatyn Raion. Settlements The hromada consists of 1 urban-type settlement (Husiatyn Husiatyn (; ) is a rural settlement in Chortkiv Raion, Ternopil Oblast, western Ukraine. It hosts the administration of Husiatyn settlement hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. Husiatyn is located on the west bank of the Zbruch River, which o ...) and 16 villages:Лист Тернопільської ОДА від 16 грудня 2020 року № 04-8690/42 References {{Ternopil Oblast 2015 establishments in Ukraine Husiatyn settlement hromada ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oblast
An oblast ( or ) is a type of administrative division in Bulgaria and several post-Soviet states, including Belarus, Russia and Ukraine. Historically, it was used in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union. The term ''oblast'' is often translated into English language, English as 'region' or 'province'. In some countries, oblasts are also known by cognates of the Russian term. Etymology The term ''oblast'' is Loanword, borrowed from Russian language, Russian область (), where it is inherited from Old East Slavic, in turn borrowed from Church Slavonic область ''oblastĭ'' 'power, empire', formed from the prefix (cognate with Classical Latin ''ob'' 'towards, against' and Ancient Greek ἐπί/ἔπι ''epi'' 'in power, in charge') and the stem ''vlastǐ'' 'power, rule'. In Old East Slavic, it was used alongside ''obolostǐ''—the equivalent of 'against' and 'territory, state, power' (cognate with English 'wield'; see volost). History Russian Empire In the Russia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raion
A raion (also spelt rayon) is a type of administrative unit of several post-Soviet states. The term is used for both a type of subnational entity and a division of a city. The word is from the French (meaning 'honeycomb, department'), and is commonly translated as ' district' in English. A raion is a standardized administrative entity across most of the former Soviet Union and is usually a subdivision two steps below the national level, such as a subdivision of an oblast. However, in smaller USSR republics, it could be the primary level of administrative division. After the fall of the Soviet Union, some of the republics kept the ''raion'' (e.g. Azerbaijan, Belarus, Ukraine, Russia, Moldova, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan) while others dropped it (e.g. Georgia, Uzbekistan, Estonia, Latvia, Armenia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan). In Bulgaria, it refers to an internal administrative subdivision of a city not related to the administrative division of the country as a whole, or, in the ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chortkiv Raion
Chortkiv Raion () is a raion in Ternopil Oblast in western Ukraine. Its capital (political), administrative center is the city of Chortkiv. It has a population of History In the Second Polish Republic, the area belonged to the County of Kopczynce, Tarnopol Voivodeship. Following the First Partition of Poland in 1772, it became part of the Habsburg monarchy's Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria. Following the Peace of Schönbrunn in 1809, the area was ceded to the Russian Empire but was returned to the Habsburg monarchy as a result of the Congress of Vienna in 1815. After the dissolution of Austria-Hungary in 1918, the area became part of the Second Polish Republic. After the Soviet invasion of Poland in 1939, it was incorporated into the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, Ukrainian SSR. Following the invasion of the Soviet Union by Nazi Germany in summer 1941, the area was administrated as part of the General Government. When the Soviet Union retook the area in 1944, the region r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hromada
In Ukraine, a hromada () is the main type of municipality and the third level Administrative divisions of Ukraine, local self-government in Ukraine. The current hromadas were established by the Cabinet of ministers of Ukraine, Government of Ukraine on 12 June 2020. A municipality is designated ''urban hromada'' if its administration is located in a city; ''settlement hromada'' if it is located in a settlement (''selyshche''), and ''rural hromada'' if it is located in a village (Village#Ukraine, ''selo'') or a ''selyshche''. Hromadas are grouped to form Raions of Ukraine, raions (districts); groups of raions form Oblasts of Ukraine, oblasts (regions). Optionally, a municipality may be divided into Starosta okruh, starosta okruhs (similar to Civil parish, civil parishes in Great Britain or Frazione, frazioni in Italy), which are the lowest level of local government in Ukraine. Similar terms exist in Poland (''gromada'') and in Belarus (''hramada''). The literal translation of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Village
A village is a human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand. Although villages are often located in rural areas, the term urban village is also applied to certain urban neighborhoods. Villages are normally permanent, with fixed dwellings; however, transient villages can occur. Further, the dwellings of a village are fairly close to one another, not scattered broadly over the landscape, as a dispersed settlement. In the past, villages were a usual form of community for societies that practice subsistence agriculture and also for some non-agricultural societies. In Great Britain, a hamlet earned the right to be called a village when it built a church.-4; we might wonder whether there's a point at which it's appropriate to talk of the beginnings of French, that is, when it wa ... ''village'', from Latin ''villāticus'', ultimately from Latin ''villa'' (English ''vi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ukraine
Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It is the List of European countries by area, second-largest country in Europe after Russia, which Russia–Ukraine border, borders it to the east and northeast. Ukraine also borders Belarus to the north; Poland and Slovakia to the west; Hungary, Romania and Moldova to the southwest; and the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov to the south and southeast. Kyiv is the nation's capital and List of cities in Ukraine, largest city, followed by Kharkiv, Odesa, and Dnipro. Ukraine's official language is Ukrainian language, Ukrainian. Humans have inhabited Ukraine since 32,000 BC. During the Middle Ages, it was the site of early Slavs, early Slavic expansion and later became a key centre of East Slavs, East Slavic culture under the state of Kievan Rus', which emerged in the 9th century. Kievan Rus' became the largest and most powerful realm in Europe in the 10th and 11th centuries, but gradually disintegrated into rival regional powers before being d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ternopil Oblast
Ternopil Oblast (), also referred to as Ternopilshchyna () or Ternopillia (), is an Oblasts of Ukraine, oblast (province) of Ukraine. Its Capital (political), administrative center is Ternopil, through which flows the Seret (river), Seret, a tributary of the Dniester. Population: One of the natural wonders of the region are its cave complexes.Tell about Ukraine. Ternopil Oblast . 24 Kanal (youtube). Although Ternopil Oblast is among the smallest regions in Ukraine, over 100 caves have been discovered there. Scientists believe these are only 20% of all possible caves in the region. The biggest cave is Optymistychna Cave. Measuring in total length, it is the longest cave in Eurasia and the list of longest caves, fifth-longest in the world. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sylvester Lepkyi
Sylvester Lepkyi (; 31 December 1845 – 5 June 1901) was a Ukrainian writer, religious and public figure. Father of Bohdan Lepky, Bohdan, Levko and Mykola, grandfather of Marko Lepkyi. Biography Sylvester Lepkyi was born on 31 December 1845 in the town of Kulykiv, now a rural settlement in the Lviv Oblast. In 1871 he graduated from the Lviv Theological Seminary. In the same year he was ordained a Greek Catholic priest. He served in the parishes of villages in Lviv and Ternopil Regions, in particular, from 1892 he served in Zhukiv, Ternopil Oblast, Zhukiv. Lepkyi was a member of the Ukrainian Radical Party, Ruthenian-Ukrainian Radical Party and was also a member of other societies and organizations. In Berezhany, he headed the public self-government body "Selianska Rada" and co-founded branches and reading rooms of the "Prosvita" and "" societies in the villages of Husiatyn and Berezhany districts. He was active in organizing amateur theaters, for which he wrote plays. Lepkyi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
