Turka Raion ( uk, Турківський район) was a
raion
A raion (also spelt rayon) is a type of administrative unit of several post-Soviet states. The term is used for both a type of subnational entity and a division of a city. The word is from the French (meaning 'honeycomb, department'), and is co ...
(administrative unit) in
Lviv Oblast
Lviv Oblast ( uk, Льві́вська о́бласть, translit=Lvivska oblast, ), also referred to as Lvivshchyna ( uk, Льві́вщина, ), ). The name of each oblast is a wikt:Appendix:Glossary#relational, relational adjective—in Englis ...
in western
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 ...
. Its
administrative center
An administrative center is a seat of regional administration or local government, or a county town, or the place where the central administration of a commune
A commune is an alternative term for an intentional community. Commune or comună or ...
was the city of
Turka. The raion was abolished on 18 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. The last estimate of the raion population was .
It was established in 1939.
At the time of disestablishment, the raion consisted of two
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:
*
Borynia settlement hromada Borynia refers to:
* Borynia, Turka Raion, town in Ukraine
* Borynia, Jastrzębie-Zdrój, village in Poland
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with the administration in the
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 ...
of
Borynia;
*
Turka urban hromada
Turka may refer to:
Places
*Turka, Chełm County, in Lublin Voivodeship (east Poland)
*Turka, Lublin County, in Lublin Voivodeship (east Poland)
*Turka, Republic of Buryatia, a rural locality in Russia
*Turka, Ukraine, a city in Lviv Oblast, Ukrai ...
with the administration in Turka.
See also
*
Administrative divisions of Lviv Oblast
References
External links
trda.lv.ukrtel.net
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Former raions of Lviv Oblast
1939 establishments in Ukraine
Ukrainian raions abolished during the 2020 administrative reform