Drahomanivka ( uk, Драгоманівка) is a
village in
Kupchyntsi rural hromada
Kupchyntsi rural territorial hromada ( uk, Купчинецька територіальна громада, translit=Kupchynetska silska terytorialna hromada) is a hromada
A hromada ( uk, територіальна громада, lit=terri ...
,
Ternopil Raion,
Ternopil Oblast,
Ukraine.
History
The first settler of the village was Petro Bilyi, who built a house there in 1876, and dug a well and a pond for fish farming. Later, Stefan Harmatii built a house next to his, and then others followed suit. The hamlet was named Mykytsivka (Mykytivka) after the first settler, Bilyi, whose family was called Mykytsi.
In 1890, Stefan Harmatii, one of the village's wealthiest landowners, wanted the village to be called Harmatiivka, but the poet and well-known cultural and public figure
Pavlo Dumka
Pavlo Dumka ( uk, Павло Андрійович Думка; 21 March 1854 – 19 November 1918) was a Ukrainian poet, publicist, public figure. Founding member of the Ukrainian Radical Party (1890), ambassador to the Galician Sejm (1908–1918) ...
(who settled in the town in 1895) and the prominent Ukrainian poet
Ivan Franko advised the residents to name the settlement Drahomanivka in honor of the great Ukrainian scientist and writer, prominent public figure
Mykhailo Drahomanov. This name was formally established after the
First World War.
After the liquidation of the
Kozova Raion
Kozova Raion () was a raion in Ternopil Oblast of western Ukraine. The administrative center was the town of Kozova. Its area was 694 km². The raion was abolished on 18 July 2020 as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced ...
on 19 July 2020, the village became part of the Ternopil Raion.
[Постанова Верховної Ради України від 17 липня 2020 року № 807-IX]
Про утворення та ліквідацію районів
References
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Kupchyntsi rural hromada
Villages in Ternopil Raion
1876 establishments in Europe
19th-century establishments in Ukraine
Ivan Franko