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Hnyla Lypa (, ) is a river in
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 nor ...
, a tributary of the
Dniester The Dniester ( ) is a transboundary river in Eastern Europe. It runs first through Ukraine and then through Moldova (from which it more or less separates the breakaway territory of Transnistria), finally discharging into the Black Sea on Uk ...
river. The name literally means "rotten
linden tree ''Tilia'' is a genus of about 30 species of trees or bushes, native throughout most of the temperateness, temperate Northern Hemisphere. The tree is known as linden for the European species, and basswood for North American species. In Great Bri ...
" both in Polish and Ukrainian. It runs parallel to the Zolota Lypa river. The river is namesake to the Battle of Gnila Lipa on 29–30 August 1914, where the
Imperial Russian Army The Imperial Russian Army () was the army of the Russian Empire, active from 1721 until the Russian Revolution of 1917. It was organized into a standing army and a state militia. The standing army consisted of Regular army, regular troops and ...
defeated the Austro-Hungarian Army.


Settlements

* Peremyshliany *
Rohatyn Rohatyn (, ; ) is a List of cities in Ukraine, city located on the Hnyla Lypa River in Ivano-Frankivsk Raion, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, in western Ukraine. It hosts the administration of Rohatyn urban hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. Popula ...
* Burshtyn


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External links


Hnyla Lypa
at the Ukrainian Soviet Encyclopedia * Kahalo, O.
Hnyla Lypa
'' Encyclopedia of Modern Ukraine. {{Ukraine-river-stub Rivers of Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast Rivers of Lviv Oblast