Vashkivtsi (, ; ; ; ; ) is a city in

Vyzhnytsia Raion Vyzhnytsia Raion () is an administrative raion (district) in the southern part of Chernivtsi Oblast, located in the historical region of Bukovina, in western Ukraine, on the Romanian border. The region has an area of and centers on the city of Vy ...

Chernivtsi Oblast Chernivtsi Oblast (), also referred to as Chernivechchyna (), is an oblast (province) in western Ukraine, consisting of the northern parts of the historical regions of Bukovina and Bessarabia. It has an international border with Romania and Moldo ...

(

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) of

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. It is located in the historical region of

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. It hosts the administration of Vashkivtsi urban hromada, one of the

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s of Ukraine. Population: One village is administered by the town, Voloka (, ).

History

The name of the town comes from the personal name Vas'ko. The first written mention of Vashkivtsi dates back to the 15th century, in the 1430s. Settlement established in 1903 as ''Waskoutz am Czeremosz'' within the Austro-Hungarian

Duchy of Bukovina The Duchy of Bukovina (; ; ) was a constituent land of the Austrian Empire from 1849 and a Cisleithanian crown land of Austria-Hungary from 1867 until 1918. Name The name ''Bukovina'' came into official use in 1775 with the region's annexation ...

. City since 1940.Вашковцы // Большая Советская Энциклопедия. / под ред. А. М. Прохорова. 3-е изд. том 4. М., «Советская энциклопедия», 1971. стр.345Вашковцы // Советский энциклопедический словарь. редколл., гл. ред. А. М. Прохоров. 4-е изд. М., «Советская энциклопедия», 1986. стр.199Вашковцы // Большой энциклопедический словарь (в 2-х тт.). / редколл., гл. ред. А. М. Прохоров. том 1. М., "Советская энциклопедия", 1991. стр.198 In January 1989, the population was 5811 people. In January 2013, the population was 5406 people.

Transport

There is a railway station in Vashkivtsi.

Notable people

* John Hnatyshyn,

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lawyer,

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and father of

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, the twenty-fourth

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. * Tina Karol, Ukrainian singer and songwriter, who represented her country in the

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, placing seventh; her father is from Vashkivtsi.

References

External links

* {{Authority control Cities in Chernivtsi Oblast Cities of district significance in Ukraine Duchy of Bukovina