Dovzhanka () is a

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 v ...

in Pidhorodnie rural hromada,

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History

The first written mention of the village was in 1464.

Religion

* St. John the Baptist church (1795, brick, restored in 1996).

Notable residents

* Sofia Okunevska (1865–1926), Ukrainian physician, educator, feminist, and scholar. She was the first female Doctor of Medicine and the first female physician in Austria-Hungary. In the village, Petro Bilynskyi (1893–1896) and

Ostap Nyzhankivsky Ostap Yosypovych Nyzhankivsky ( and ; 24 January 1863 – 22 May 1919) was a Ukrainian writer and cleric, a priest of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, composer, conductor, and public figure. Life Ostap Nyzhankivsky was born in the vill ...

i (1896–1897) pastored.

References

Sources

* * Pidhorodne rural hromada Villages in Ternopil Raion {{TernopilRaion-geo-stub