Hlyboka ( uk, Глибока; German and pl, Hliboka; ro, Adâncata) is an
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, ab ...
in
Chernivtsi Raion, Chernivtsi Oblast of western
Ukraine
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. It hosts the administration of
Hlyboka settlement hromada
Hlyboka ( uk, Глибока; German and pl, Hliboka; ro, Adâncata) is an urban-type settlement in Chernivtsi Raion, Chernivtsi Oblast of western Ukraine. It hosts the administration of Hlyboka settlement hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine ...
, one of the
hromada
A hromada ( uk, територіальна громада, lit=territorial community, translit=terytorialna hromada) is a basic unit of administrative division in Ukraine, similar to a municipality. It was established by the Government of Ukra ...
s of Ukraine.
Population:
History
Hlyboka is mentioned for the first time in 1438.
Before
World War II
World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposin ...
, large parts of lands of Hlyboka were owned by
Polish
Polish may refer to:
* Anything from or related to Poland, a country in Europe
* Polish language
* Poles, people from Poland or of Polish descent
* Polish chicken
*Polish brothers (Mark Polish and Michael Polish, born 1970), American twin screenwr ...
noble families: until 1892 by Prince
Adam Sapieha, then by
Bronislaw Skibniewski (1830–1904) and later by his son
Aleksander Skibniewski (1868–1942).
Until 18 July 2020, Hlyboka served as an administrative center of
Hlyboka Raion
Hlyboka Raion ( uk, Глибоцький район, ro, Raionul Adâncata ) is a former administrative district of Chernivtsi Oblast located in the historical regions of Bukovina and Hertsa, in western Ukraine. The administrative center was the ...
. The raion was abolished in July 2020 as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced the number of raions of Chernivtsi Oblast to three. The area of Hlyboka Raion was merged into Chernivtsi Raion.
International relations
Twin towns - sister cities
Hlyboka is
twinned with:
*
Piatra Neamț
Piatra Neamț (; german: Kreuzburg an der Bistrița (Siret), Bistritz; hu, Karácsonkő) is the capital city of Neamț County, in the historical region of Western Moldavia, in northeastern Romania. Because of its privileged location in the Easter ...
, Romania
Hlyboka on old photographs
File:Hliboka Bukowina.jpg, Skibniewski Palace in 1925
File:HLIBOKA SKIBNIEWSKICH.jpg, Front
File:HLIBOKA BUKOVINA.jpg, Front
File:HLIBOKA ADANCATA.jpg, View from gardens
File:HLIBOKA ADANCATA FRAGMENT.jpg, Fragment
References
;Notes
External links
Hlybostky Raion official websiteTrain in HlybokaOld photos of Hlyboka
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Urban-type settlements in Chernivtsi Raion
Bukovina