Terny ( uk, Терни) is a village in Ukraine in the Lubny Raion (

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) of

Poltava Oblast Poltava Oblast ( uk, Полта́вська о́бласть, translit=Poltavska oblast; also referred to as Poltavshchyna – uk, Полта́вщина, literally 'Poltava Country') is an oblast (province) of central Ukraine. The administrative ...

. In 2001, there were 471 inhabitants. It is situated on the right bank of the river Sula.

History

In the 17th century

Jeremi Wiśniowiecki Prince Jeremi Wiśniowiecki ( uk, Ярема Вишневецький – Yarema Vyshnevetsky; 1612 – 20 August 1651) nicknamed ''Hammer on the Cossacks'' ( pl, Młot na Kozaków), was a notable member of the aristocracy of the Polish–Lith ...

gave the village to Lubny Bernardine

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monks founded in Terny the garden on 12

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s. In 1657, after the destroying of Bernardine monastery in

Lubny Lubny ( uk, Лубни́, ), is a city in Poltava Oblast (province) of central Ukraine. Serving as the administrative center of Lubny Raion (district), the city itself is administratively incorporated as a city of oblast significance and does n ...

, the village was given to

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Bohdan Khmelnitsky Bohdan Zynovii Mykhailovych Khmelnytskyi ( Ruthenian: Ѕѣнові Богданъ Хмелнiцкiи; modern ua, Богдан Зиновій Михайлович Хмельницький; 6 August 1657) was a Ukrainian military commander and ...

. 1721

Peter the Great Peter I ( – ), most commonly known as Peter the Great,) or Pyotr Alekséyevich ( rus, Пётр Алексе́евич, p=ˈpʲɵtr ɐlʲɪˈksʲejɪvʲɪtɕ, , group=pron was a Russian monarch who ruled the Tsardom of Russia from t ...

founded in Terny and

two "pharmacy gardens" on the area of 50

s. 1781 - the village was without church, with 30 huts, there were 134 inhabitants in 1787. 1880 - upon request of the Department of Agriculture

Kateryna Skarzhynska Kateryna Skarzhynska née von Reiser ( uk, Катерина Миколаївна Скаржинська, 7 February 1852 Old Style and New Style dates, O.S./19 February 1852 (N.S.) – 1932) was a Ukrainian nobility, Ukrainian noblewoman, ...

donated 30

s of land in the village Terny for the foundation of the agricultural school. In 1929 this school was reorganized to the College of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants, and in 1950 - to the Forest College. 1903 - there were 335 inhabitants in Terny. The village was without church, belonged to Vyazivok

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.Милорадович В.П. Средняя Лубенщина. – КС, 1903 г., № 9, с. 245 – 296; № 10, с. 1 – 36; № 11, с. 209 – 240; № 12, с. 518 – 539. Окр.: К.: 1904 г. – 141 с.

Religion

From 2011 in Terny is the

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church dedicated to St. John the Apostle. Feast day celebrated on May 21.

People from Terny

* Natalia Baklay, Ukrainian poet

References

;Footnotes ;Other sources * За ред. А.В. Кудрицького Полтавщина : Енцикл. довід.. — К.: УЕ, 1992. — С. 1024. * Історія міст і сіл Української РСР. Полтавська область {{coord, 49, 58, 30, N, 32, 59, 10, E, type:city_region:UA, display=title Villages in Lubny Raion