Verkhnie Vysotske ( ua, Верхнє Висоцьке, pl, Wysocko Wyżne) is a
village (''selo'') in
Sambir Raion,
Lviv Oblast, in south-west
Ukraine, situated in the Ukrainian part of the
Carpathian Mountains
The Carpathian Mountains or Carpathians () are a range of mountains forming an arc across Central Europe. Roughly long, it is the third-longest European mountain range after the Urals at and the Scandinavian Mountains at . The range stretches ...
. It belongs to
Borynia settlement hromada Borynia refers to:
* Borynia, Turka Raion, town in Ukraine
* Borynia, Jastrzębie-Zdrój, village in Poland
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, 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.
The village was established in the second half of the 15th century.
Until 18 July 2020, Verkhnie Vysotske belonged to
Turka Raion
Turka Raion ( uk, Турківський район) was a raion (administrative unit) in Lviv Oblast in western Ukraine. Its administrative center was the city of Turka. The raion was abolished on 18 July 2020 as part of the administrative refor ...
. 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.
People from Verkhnie Vysotske
*
Wiktor Wysoczański, Bishop of the Polish Catholic Church
*
Basil, 1st Chevalier de Weryha-Wysoczański-Pietrusiewicz, wholesale merchant, landowner, town property owner and philanthropist in Odesa
References
Verkhnie Vysotske
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