Pop Iwan
Pip Ivan may refer to: * Pip Ivan (Chornohora) * Pip Ivan (Maramureș) Pip Ivan ( uk, Піп Іван, ro, Pop Ivan) is a peak in the Maramureș region on the Ukrainian-Romania Romania ( ; ro, România ) is a country located at the crossroads of Central Europe, Central, Eastern Europe, Eastern, and Southe ...

Pip Ivan (Chornohora)
Pip Ivan ( uk, Піп Іван; pl, Pop Iwan) is the third highest peak (after Hoverla and Brebeneskul) in the Chornohora (Czarnohora) range, with a height of 2022 meters (6,634 ft) above sea level.''Ukraine: The Bradt Travel Guide'' Andrew Evans - 2007 - 1841621811 Page 247 The mountain town is a good point from which to hike the lower Chornohora (Pip Ivan and Smotrych), and head off on some walks across the Carpathian countryside. Although not inside the boundaries of the national park, Verkhovyna is the transfer point between buses and taxis to and from Yaremche and Ivano-Frankivsk with Kosiv and Kolomiya. Eight buses go to and from Yaremche every day as well as Kosiv (1 hour). In the interwar period (1918–1939) the peak marked the Polish - Czechoslovak, from March 1939 Polish - Hungarian border and numerous skirmishes between OUN and Polish border troops took place in the area. On the peak (then in Polish called Pop Iwan), from 1936–1938 the Polish governmen ...
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