rural settlement
The definition of a rural settlement depends on the country, in some countries, a rural settlement is any settlement in the areas defined as rural by a governmental office, e.g., by the national census bureau. This may include even rural towns. ...
Khmelnytskyi Oblast
Khmelnytskyi Oblast (), also known as Khmelnychchyna (), is an administrative divisions of Ukraine, oblast (province) in western Ukraine covering portions of the historical regions of western Podolia and southern Volhynia. The Capital (political) ...
, western
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 ...
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 Uk ...
s of Ukraine. The settlement's population was 2,492 as of the
2001 Ukrainian Census
The 2001 Ukrainian census is to date the only census of the population of independent Ukraine. It was conducted by the State Statistics Committee of Ukraine on 5 December 2001, twelve years after the last Soviet Union census in 1989.Dnister River in the
Podolia
Podolia or Podillia is a historic region in Eastern Europe located in the west-central and southwestern parts of Ukraine and northeastern Moldova (i.e. northern Transnistria).
Podolia is bordered by the Dniester River and Boh River. It features ...
The settlement was first mentioned in written documents in 1144 as Ushytsia (). Ushytsia was also granted the
Magdeburg rights
Magdeburg rights (, , ; also called Magdeburg Law) were a set of town privileges first developed by Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor (936–973) and based on the Flemish Law, which regulated the degree of internal autonomy within cities and villages gr ...
in 1144. In 1826, the settlement was renamed to "Stara Ushytsia" (Old Ushytsia) while the settlement of Litnivtsi was renamed Nova Ushytsia (New Ushytsia).
It was granted the status of an urban-type settlement in 1979. The town houses the Stara Ushytisa Settlement Council, which was founded in 1982. The council administers the town of Stara Ushytsia itself and the village of Horaivka. On 26 January 2024, a new law entered into force which abolished this status, and Stara Ushytsia became a rural settlement.
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Bakota, Ukraine
Bakota () is a historic submerged settlement in Khmelnytskyi Oblast, western Ukraine. The village lies beneath the Dniester, Dniester River and is located in the historic region of Podolia.
Bakota has a cave monastery, which includes frescoes and ...
, a former settlement near the town that houses an ancient cave monastery