Verkhnie ( ua, Ве́рхнє, before 1946 ''Ботелка Вижня'', pl, Butelka Wyżna) is a
village
A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town (although the word is often used to describe both hamlets and smaller towns), with a population typically ranging from a few hundred ...
(''selo'') in
Sambir Raion
Sambir Raion ( uk, Самбірський район) is a raion in Lviv Oblast in western Ukraine. Its administrative center is Sambir. Population: . It was established in 1965.
On 18 July 2020, as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, t ...
,
Lviv Oblast
Lviv Oblast ( uk, Льві́вська о́бласть, translit=Lvivska oblast, ), also referred to as Lvivshchyna ( uk, Льві́вщина, ), ). The name of each oblast is a relational adjective—in English translating to a noun adjunct w ...
, in south-west
Ukraine
Ukraine ( uk, Україна, Ukraïna, ) is a country in Eastern Europe. It is the second-largest European country after Russia, which it borders to the east and northeast. Ukraine covers approximately . Prior to the ongoing Russian inv ...
. It belongs to
Borynia settlement hromada, one of the
hromadas of Ukraine.
The village is a sister settlement of
Nyzhnye. Both used to be a single village, which was first mentioned in 1558. There is an Orthodox church built in years 1913–1914.
Until 18 July 2020, Verkhnie belonged to
Turka Raion. The raion was abolished in July 2020 as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced the number of raions of Lviv Oblast to seven. The area of Turka Raion was merged into Sambir Raion.
References
Verkhnie
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