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Lanchyn
Lanchyn ( uk, Ланчин, pl, Łanczyn, he, לאנצ'ין, ro, Lanciîn) is an urban-type settlement in Nadvirna Raion in Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast. It hosts the administration of Lanchyn settlement hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. Its population was . Location Lanchyn is located on the Prut about 42 kilometers south of Ivano-Frankivsk and 16 kilometers southeast of Nadvirna. History Between 1772 and 1918 it was part of Austrian Galicia. After the end of World War I Lanchyn (as Łanczyn) became part of Nadvirna Powiat in Stanisławów Voivodeship, part of Poland. In 1939 it was annexed by the Soviet Union. In 1940 it became an urban-type settlement. Lanchyn was occupied by German troops during World War II from 1941 to 1944, part of the District of Galicia. Postwar, Lanchyn was briefly the center of the raion. Notable people * Zbigniew Horbowy (1935–2019), Polish glass artist * Mykhajlo Levitsky (1774–1858), Metropolitan of Lviv Metropolitan may refer t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lanchyn Settlement Hromada
Lanchyn ( uk, Ланчин, pl, Łanczyn, he, לאנצ'ין, ro, Lanciîn) is an urban-type settlement in Nadvirna Raion in Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast. It hosts the administration of Lanchyn settlement hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. Its population was . Location Lanchyn is located on the Prut about 42 kilometers south of Ivano-Frankivsk and 16 kilometers southeast of Nadvirna. History Between 1772 and 1918 it was part of Austrian Galicia. After the end of World War I Lanchyn (as Łanczyn) became part of Nadvirna Powiat in Stanisławów Voivodeship, part of Poland. In 1939 it was annexed by the Soviet Union. In 1940 it became an urban-type settlement. Lanchyn was occupied by German troops during World War II from 1941 to 1944, part of the District of Galicia. Postwar, Lanchyn was briefly the center of the raion. Notable people * Zbigniew Horbowy (1935–2019), Polish glass artist * Mykhajlo Levitsky (1774–1858), Metropolitan of Lviv Metropolitan may refer t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nadvirna Raion
Nadvirna Raion ( uk, Надвірня́нський райо́н, translit=Nadvirnianśkyj rajon) is a raion (district) of Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast (region). The town of Nadvirna 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 Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast was reduced to six, and the area of Nadvirna Raion was significantly expanded. Yaremche Municipality was merged into Nadvirna Raion. The January 2020 estimate of the raion population was In 2015 oil production stopped in the raion (due to the license expiration). Subdivisions Current After the reform in July 2020, the raion consisted of 8 hromadas: * Deliatyn settlement hromada with the administration in the urban-type settlement of Deliatyn, retained from Nadvirna Raion; * Lanchyn settlement hromada with the administration in the urban-type settlement of Lanchyn, retained from Nadvirna Raion; * Nadvirna urban hromada with the administr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mykhajlo Levitsky
Mykhailo Levytskyi (or ''Mykhajlo Levitsky'' ( uk, Михайло Левицький, pl, Michał Lewicki)); 17 February, 1774 – 14 January, 1858) was the Metropolitan Archbishop of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church from 1816 until his death in 1858 and a Cardinal of the Catholic Church. He was from a Ukrainian Greek Catholic sacerdotal family and nobility with the herbu, de Rogale. Life Mykhailo Levytskyi was born on 17 February 1774on 16 August 1774 according to other sources at Lanchyn, in Pokuttya region, the son of Rev. Stefan Lewicki (sic), the Greek Catholic priest in Lanchyn and Maria (last name unknown). He was one of at least eight children born to Rev. Stefan and Maria. Mykhailo's older brother, Gregory, became a priest also and served the village of Prysowce (Ukr: Prysivtsi) as its Greek Catholic pastor. Mykhailo studied philosophy and theology in Lviv and later in Vienna where, after his ( Priestly) ordination in 1798, he entered in force to the Greek Ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast
Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast ( uk, Іва́но-Франкі́вська о́бласть, translit=Ivano-Frankivska oblast), also referred to as Ivano-Frankivshchyna ( uk, Іва́но-Франкі́вщина), is an administrative divisions of Ukraine, oblast (region) in western Ukraine. Its administrative center is the city of Ivano-Frankivsk. As is the case with most other oblasts of Ukraine this region has the same name as its administrative center – which was renamed by the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, Soviet Ukrainian authorities after the Ukrainian writer Ivan Franko on 9 November 1962. It has a population of Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast is also known to Ukrainians by a deep-rooted alternative name: ''Prykarpattia'' (although some sources may also consider the southern Lviv Oblast including such cities as Stryi, Truskavets, and Drohobych, as also part of Prykarpattia). Prykarpattia, together with Lviv Oblast, Lviv and Ternopil Oblast, Ternopil regions, was the main body of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prut
The Prut (also spelled in English as Pruth; , uk, Прут) is a long river in Eastern Europe. It is a left tributary of the Danube. In part of its course it forms Romania's border with Moldova and Ukraine. Characteristics The Prut originates on the eastern slope of Mount Hoverla, in the Carpathian Mountains in Ukraine (Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast). At first, the river flows to the north. Near Yaremche it turns to the northeast, and near Kolomyia to the south-east. Having reached the border between Moldova and Romania, it turns even more to the south-east, and then to the south. It eventually joins the Danube near Giurgiulești, east of Galați and west of Reni, Ukraine, Reni. Between 1918 and 1939, the river was partly in Poland and partly in Greater Romania (Romanian: ''România Mare''). Prior to World War I, it served as a border between Romania and the Russian Empire. After World War II, the river once again denoted a border, this time between Romania and the Soviet Union. Nowa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nadvirna
Nadvírna, also referred to as ''Nadwirna'' or ''Nadvorna'' ( uk, Надві́рна, pl, Nadwórna, yi, נאַדוואָרנאַ, ''Nadvorna'') is a city located in Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast in western Ukraine. It is the administrative centre of Nadvirna Raion. Nadvirna hosts the administration of Nadvirna urban hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. Population: . From the mid-14th century until 1772 (see Partitions of Poland) Nadvirna, known in Polish as Nadwórna, was part of the Kingdom of Poland. In 1772, it was annexed by the Habsburg Empire, and remained in the province of Galicia until late 1918. In the inter-war years, the borders changed and the town became part of the Second Polish Republic. Following the 1939 Invasion of Poland, it was annexed into the Ukrainian SSR (see also Molotov-Ribbentrop pact). Nadvirna was occupied by the Germans in 1941 during World War II. After the war it was once again absorbed into the Ukrainian SSR. Since its independence in 199 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Urban Type Settlement
Urban-type settlementrussian: посёлок городско́го ти́па, translit=posyolok gorodskogo tipa, abbreviated: russian: п.г.т., translit=p.g.t.; ua, селище міського типу, translit=selyshche mis'koho typu, abbreviated: uk, с.м.т., translit=s.m.t.; be, пасёлак гарадскога тыпу, translit=pasiolak haradskoha typu; pl, osiedle typu miejskiego; bg, селище от градски тип, translit=selishte ot gradski tip; ro, așezare de tip orășenesc. is an official designation for a semi-urban settlement (previously called a "town"), used in several Eastern European countries. The term was historically used in Bulgaria, Poland, and the Soviet Union, and remains in use today in 10 of the post-Soviet states. The designation was used in all 15 member republics of the Soviet Union from 1922, when it replaced a number of terms that could have been translated by the English term "town" (Russia – ''posad'', Ukraine & ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Soviet Union
The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen national republics; in practice, both its government and its economy were highly centralized until its final years. It was a one-party state governed by the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, with the city of Moscow serving as its capital as well as that of its largest and most populous republic: the Russian SFSR. Other major cities included Leningrad (Russian SFSR), Kiev (Ukrainian SSR), Minsk ( Byelorussian SSR), Tashkent (Uzbek SSR), Alma-Ata (Kazakh SSR), and Novosibirsk (Russian SFSR). It was the largest country in the world, covering over and spanning eleven time zones. The country's roots lay in the October Revolution of 1917, when the Bolsheviks, under the leadership of Vladimir Lenin, overthrew the Russian Provisional Government ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Populated Places On The Prut
Population typically refers to the number of people in a single area, whether it be a city or town, region, country, continent, or the world. Governments typically quantify the size of the resident population within their jurisdiction using a census, a process of collecting, analysing, compiling, and publishing data regarding a population. Perspectives of various disciplines Social sciences In sociology and population geography, population refers to a group of human beings with some predefined criterion in common, such as location, race, ethnicity, nationality, or religion. Demography is a social science which entails the statistical study of populations. Ecology In ecology, a population is a group of organisms of the same species who inhabit the same particular geographical area and are capable of interbreeding. The area of a sexual population is the area where inter-breeding is possible between any pair within the area and more probable than cross-breeding with ind ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Major Archbishops Of Kyiv–Galicia
A ''list'' is any set of items in a row. List or lists may also refer to: People * List (surname) Organizations * List College, an undergraduate division of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America * SC Germania List, German rugby union club Other uses * Angle of list, the leaning to either port or starboard of a ship * List (information), an ordered collection of pieces of information ** List (abstract data type), a method to organize data in computer science * List on Sylt, previously called List, the northernmost village in Germany, on the island of Sylt * ''List'', an alternative term for ''roll'' in flight dynamics * To ''list'' a building, etc., in the UK it means to designate it a listed building that may not be altered without permission * Lists (jousting), the barriers used to designate the tournament area where medieval knights jousted * ''The Book of Lists'', an American series of books with unusual lists See also * The List (other) * Listing (di ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zbigniew Horbowy
Zbigniew Horbowy (28 October 1935 in Łanczyn – 17 June 2019 in Polanica-Zdrój) was a Polish artist working in industrial design, both artistic and applied glassmaking, professor at the Faculty of Ceramics and Glass and rector of the Wrocław Academy of Fine Arts. He was an influential Polish designer of utility glass and created his own design school. Early life and education Horbowy was born in Poland, in the village of Łanczyn in the county of Nadwórna (now Nadvirna Raion), in the former Stanisławów Voivodeship in what is now Ukraine. His family soon moved to the city of Kolomyia. After World War II he and his family were forcibly resettled from Kolomyia to Kargowa near Zielona Góra in western Poland, where he attended elementary school. He went to high school in nearby Wolsztyn. Although Horbowy had intended to attend the Silesian University of Technology, as he had always been interested in mechanics, he was persuaded to apply to the State College of Fine Arts in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
