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Lanivtsi
Lanivtsi (; russian: Лановцы, Lanovtsy; ; yi, לאַנאָוויץ, Lanovits), is a city in Kremenets Raion, Ternopil Oblast, Ukraine. The population is 8,680 as of 2001. It hosts the administration of Lanivtsi urban hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. Current population: History Lanivtsi received a town charter in 1545 from the Polish king. Until the Partitions of Poland, it was part of Volhynian Voivodeship. Ashkenazy Jews began to settle there later. In 1795 - 1918, Lanivtsi was occupied by the Russian Empire. In 1897 the Jewish population numbered 1,174 of a total of 2,525 in the city. Numbers of Jews were killed in pogroms, and others emigrated to western Europe or the United States. By 1921 their population in the city was 640. There was a Tarbut school and yeshiva, and many of the younger people became Zionists. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lanivtsi Urban Hromada
Lanivtsi urban territorial hromada ( uk, Лановецька територіальна громада, translit=Lanovetska miska terytorialna hromada) is a hromada in Ukraine, in Kremenets Raion of Ternopil Oblast. The administrative center is the city of Lanivtsi. Its population is It was formed on 24 May 2017. Settlements The hromada consists of 1 city (Lanivtsi Lanivtsi (; russian: Лановцы, Lanovtsy; ; yi, לאַנאָוויץ, Lanovits), is a city in Kremenets Raion, Ternopil Oblast, Ukraine. The population is 8,680 as of 2001. It hosts the administration of Lanivtsi urban hromada, one of the hr ...) and 40 villages:Лист Тернопільської ОДА від 16.12.2020 року № 04-8690/42 References {{Ternopil Oblast Lanivtsi urban hromada ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lanivtsi Raion
Lanivtsi Raion ( uk, Лановецький район) was a raion in Ternopil Oblast in western Ukraine. Its administrative center was Lanivtsi. The raion was abolished on 18 July 2020 as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced the number of raions of Ternopil Oblast to three. The area of Lanivtsi Raion was merged into Kremenets Raion. The last estimate of the raion population was Subdivisions At the time of disestablishment, the raion consisted of two hromadas: * Borsuky rural hromada with the administration in the selo of Borsuky; * Lanivtsi urban hromada with the administration in Lanivtsi. Villages in Raion * Bilozirka (population 1,102) *Moskalivka (population 582) See also * Subdivisions of Ukraine The administrative divisions of Ukraine (Ukrainian: Адміністрати́вний у́стрій Украї́ни, tr. ''Administratyvnyi ustrii Ukrainy'') are subnational administrative divisions within the geographical area of Ukraine un . ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kremenets Raion
Kremenets Raion ( uk, Кременецький район) is a raion (district) in Ternopil Oblast of western Ukraine. The administrative center is the city of Kremenets. Population: On 18 July 2020, as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, the number of raions of Ternopil Oblast was reduced to three, and the area of Kremenets Raion was significantly expanded. Two abolished raions, Lanivtsi and Shumsk Raions, as well as a part of one more abolished raion, Zbarazh Raion, and the city of Kremenets, which was previously incorporated as a city of oblast significance and did not belong to the raion, were merged into Kremenets Raion. The January 2020 estimate of the raion population was . Subdivisions Current After the reform in July 2020, the raion consisted of 8 hromadas: * Borsuky rural hromada with the administration in the selo of Borsuky, transferred from Lanivtsi Raion; * Kremenets urban hromada with the administration in the city of Kremenets, retained from Kremenet ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jełowicki Family
The Jełowicki family, sometimes called Jałowiecki, (feminine form: Jełowicka, plural: Jełowiccy) is a Polish princely family of Ruthenian- Lithuanian origin, bearing the ''Jełowicki'' arms. They use the prefix Bożeniec. Their estates were originally in Volhynia to the east of the Kingdom of Poland. As Ruthenian nobility, they held the title of ''kniaz'' (prince). By the late 16th century, the family converted from Orthodox to Catholicism and became polonized. They eventually left their original settlements at Jałowicze/Jełowicze and Bożeniec. Following their victorious exploits against the invading Tartars King Casimir IV Jagiellon rewarded them in 1444 with the domain of Łanowce in present day Ukraine. They remained on the same land from father to son from 1444 to 1865. Across the centuries, the family produced many civic officials, Prelates and clergy. They are related to other notable houses in the region, including Czartoryski, Rzewuski and Ostrogski. The fami ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ternopil Oblast
Ternopil Oblast ( uk, Тернопі́льська о́бласть, translit=Ternopilska oblast; also referred to as Ternopilshchyna, uk, Терно́пільщина, label=none, or Ternopillia, uk, Тернопілля, label=none) is an oblast (province) of Ukraine. Its administrative center is Ternopil, through which flows the Seret, a tributary of the Dniester. Population: One of the natural wonders of the region are its cave complexes.Tell about Ukraine. Ternopil Oblast 24 Kanal (youtube). Although Ternopil Oblast is among the smallest regions in Ukraine, over 100 caves have been discovered there. Scientists believe these are only 20% of all possible caves in the region. The biggest cave is |
Teodor Jełowicki
Teodor Adam-Michał Jełowicki (9 November 1828 - 1905) was a Polish landowner of princely Ruthenians, Ruthenian descent, secretary general of the Kyiv council, Marshal of the Uman Raion, Uman Powiat, musician, diarist, prisoner, exile in Paris and philanthropist. Early years He was born in Sinica in the Kyiv Oblast, on his father Stefan Jełowicki family, Jełowicki's estate. His father was marshal of the Kremenets powiat and married to Antonina née Iwaszkiewicz. Jełowicki completed his secondary education at the Lycée Richelieu in Odessa, where he also took piano lessons from M.Czerny. He took a law degree at the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, National University of Kyiv. Throughout his studies he was a friend of August Iwański, a participant in the January Uprising of 1863, exile and amateur musician. In 1857 he paid his mother, Antonina, the sum of 10,000 silver rubles as a fee to acquire her share in his father's estate. In that year he had built a church ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
City
A city is a human settlement of notable size.Goodall, B. (1987) ''The Penguin Dictionary of Human Geography''. London: Penguin.Kuper, A. and Kuper, J., eds (1996) ''The Social Science Encyclopedia''. 2nd edition. London: Routledge. It can be defined as a permanent and densely settled place with administratively defined boundaries whose members work primarily on non-agricultural tasks. Cities generally have extensive systems for housing, transportation, sanitation, utilities, land use, production of goods, and communication. Their density facilitates interaction between people, government organisations and businesses, sometimes benefiting different parties in the process, such as improving efficiency of goods and service distribution. Historically, city-dwellers have been a small proportion of humanity overall, but following two centuries of unprecedented and rapid urbanization, more than half of the world population now lives in cities, which has had profound consequences for g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Second Polish Republic
The Second Polish Republic, at the time officially known as the Republic of Poland, was a country in Central Europe, Central and Eastern Europe that existed between 1918 and 1939. The state was established on 6 November 1918, before the end of the First World War. The Second Republic ceased to exist in 1939, when Invasion of Poland, Poland was invaded by Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union and the Slovak Republic (1939–1945), Slovak Republic, marking the beginning of the European theatre of World War II, European theatre of the Second World War. In 1938, the Second Republic was the sixth largest country in Europe. According to the Polish census of 1921, 1921 census, the number of inhabitants was 27.2 million. By 1939, just before the outbreak of World War II, this had grown to an estimated 35.1 million. Almost a third of the population came from minority groups: 13.9% Ruthenians; 10% Ashkenazi Jews; 3.1% Belarusians; 2.3% Germans and 3.4% Czechs and Lithuanians. At the same time, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wolyn Voivodeship (1921–39)
Volhynia (also spelled Volynia) ( ; uk, Воли́нь, Volyn' pl, Wołyń, russian: Волы́нь, Volýnʹ, ), is a historic region in Central and Eastern Europe, between south-eastern Poland, south-western Belarus, and western Ukraine. The borders of the region are not clearly defined, but the territory that still carries the name is Volyn Oblast, in western Ukraine. Volhynia has changed hands numerous times throughout history and been divided among competing powers. For centuries it was part of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. After the Russian annexation, all of Volhynia was part of the Pale of Settlement designated by Imperial Russia on its south-western-most border. Important cities include Lutsk, Rivne, Volodymyr, Ostroh, Ustyluh, Iziaslav, Peresopnytsia, and Novohrad-Volynskyi (Zviahel). After the annexation of Volhynia by the Russian Empire as part of the Partitions of Poland, it also included the cities of Zhytomyr, Ovruch, Korosten. The city of Zviahel was ren ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mniszech Family
The House of Mniszech (plural: Mniszchowie, Polish surname#Feminine forms, historical feminine forms: Mniszchówna (unmarried), Mniszchowa (married or widow)) was a Polish magnate and szlachta, noble family bearing the Mniszech Coat of Arms. Notable members * Andrzej Jerzy Mniszech (1823–1905), painter * (died c. 1569) * Franciszek Bernard Mniszech * Jan Karol Wandalin Mniszech * Jan Mniszech * Jerzy August Mniszech * Jerzy Jan Wandalin Mniszech * Jerzy Mniszech (c. 1548–1613), starost of Lviv, Lwów, voivode of Sandomierz Voivodship, Sandomierz * Julia Teresa Wandalin-Mniszech * Józef Jan Wandalin Mniszech * Józef Wandalin Mniszech * Józefina Amalia Mniszech (1752–1798), wife of Stanisław Szczęsny Potocki * Ludwika Mniszech * Maria Amalia Mniszchowa (1736–1772) * Maryna Mniszchówna (c. 1588–1614), Tsaritsa of Russia * Michał Jerzy Wandalin Mniszech (1742–1806), Marshal of the Court of Lithuania and Grand Marshal of the Crown * (1484–1553) * Stanisław B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wiśniowiecki
The House of Wiśniowiecki ( uk, Вишневе́цькі, ''Vyshnevetski''; lt, Višnioveckiai}) was a Polish-Lithuanian princely family of Ruthenian-Lithuanian origin, notable in the history of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. They were powerful magnates with estates predominantly in Ruthenian lands of the Crown of the Kingdom of Poland, and they used the Polish coat of arms of ''Korybut''. The family is a cadet branch of the House of Zbaraski. History The family tradition would trace their descent to the Gediminids, but modern historians believe there is more evidence for them to have descended from the Rurikids. According to the Gediminids relation theory, the ancestor of the family was Duke Kaributas (Ruthenian: ''Dymitr Korybut''),Mytsyk, Yu. Vyshnevetski'. Encyclopedia of History of Ukraine. a son of the Grand Duke of Lithuania, Algirdas. Kaributas was stripped of the Duchy of Severia and transferred to Volhynia and Podolia where he was given to govern citi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tarbut
The word Tarbut (תרבות) means "Culture" in Hebrew. The Tarbut movement was a network of secular, Hebrew-language schools in parts of the former Jewish Pale of Settlement, specifically in Poland, Romania and Lithuania. It operated primarily between the world wars. Some schools affiliated with the movement continue to operate today and new ones were established in the United States and other destinations of emigrants from central and eastern Europe. History Education activities ''Tarbut'' was a network of Hebrew-language educational institutions established in newly independent Poland during the period between the world wars.Bar-El, Adina (2010).Tarbut" ''YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe''. yivoencyclopedia.org. Retrieved 2019-05-21. The first Polish national Tarbut conference was held in Warsaw, in December 1921. Eventually the Tarbut network, which was supported by Zionist groups,Ury, Scott (2010)Zionism and Zionist Parties, section, "The Interwar Years ". ''YI ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
