Monastyryska Raion () was a

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(district) in

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in western

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. Its

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was the city of Monastyryska. The raion was abolished on 18 July 2020, as part of an administrative reform in Ukraine, which reduced the number of raions of Ternopil Oblast to three. The area of Monastyryska Raion was merged into

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 Kopczync ...

. The last estimate of the raion population was The raion was created in 1939, after the

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, when Poland was partitioned between

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and

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. Monastyryska Raion was created out of the former Polish Buchach County. Several years later, it was abolished following the invasion of the Soviet Union by Nazi Germany. The raion was reinstated in 1944 after return of the Soviet regime.

Subdivisions

At the time of its disestablishment, the raion consisted of two

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s: *

Koropets settlement hromada Koropets settlement hromada ( is a hromada in Ukraine, in Chortkiv Raion of Ternopil Oblast. The administrative center is the urban-type settlement of Koropets. Its population is History It was formed on 29 July 2015 by amalgamation of Koropets ...

with the administration in the

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Koropets Koropets (; ) is a Populated places in Ukraine#Rural settlements, rural settlement in Chortkiv Raion, Ternopil Oblast, western Ukraine. Koropets was first founded in 1421, and it acquired the status of an urban-type settlement in 1984. Koropets ho ...

; *

Monastyryska urban hromada Monastyryska urban territorial hromada () is a hromada in Ukraine, in Chortkiv Raion of Ternopil Oblast Ternopil Oblast (), also referred to as Ternopilshchyna () or Ternopillia (), is an Oblasts of Ukraine, oblast (province) of Ukraine. Its Ca ...

with the administration in Monastyryska.

People from Monastyryska Raion

* Volodymyr Hnatiuk – (1871–1926), writer,

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scholar, translator, and journalist, and was one of the most influential and notable Ukrainian ethnographers.

References

{{Authority control Former raions of Ternopil Oblast 1939 establishments in Ukraine Ukrainian raions abolished during the 2020 administrative reform

Subdivisions

People from Monastyryska Raion

See also

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