Novytsia (; ) is a village in

Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast (), also referred to as Ivano-Frankivshchyna () or simply Frankivshchyna, is an administrative divisions of Ukraine, oblast (region) in western Ukraine. Its administrative center is the city of Ivano-Frankivsk. It has a pop ...

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, in

Kalush Raion Kalush Raion () is a raion (district) of Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast (province). The city of Kalush is the administrative center of the raion. Population: On 18 July 2020, as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, the number of raions of Ivan ...

. It is the administrative centre of Novytsia rural hromada. Its population is 3,733 ().

History

Novytsia was first mentioned in a charter granted by

Casimir III the Great Casimir III the Great (; 30 April 1310 – 5 November 1370) reigned as the King of Poland from 1333 to 1370. He also later became King of Ruthenia in 1340, retaining the title throughout the Galicia–Volhynia Wars. He was the last Polish king fr ...

in 1367. This makes it one of the oldest-known continually-inhabited settlements in

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. During the 1650s, the village came under the ownership of the

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family. Other parts of the village were owned by Yosyf Shumlyansky. After the

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, the

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took over Novytsia, and the Ukrainian cultural organisation

Prosvita Prosvita (), since 1991 officially known as All-Ukrainian Prosvita Society named after Taras Shevchenko () is an enlightenment society aimed to preserve and develop Ukrainian culture, education and science, that was created in the nineteenth cen ...

later operated in the village. In 1939, Novytsia had a population of 3,620, including 3,530

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. The

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operated in the village during its resistance to the Soviet Union.

Notable residents

* {{ill, Vira Rychakivska, uk, Ричаківська Віра Іванівна, Ukrainian economist

References

Villages in Kalush Raion