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Kachanivka, Ternopil Oblast
Kachanivka () is a village in Pidvolochysk settlement hromada, Ternopil Raion, Ternopil Oblast, Ukraine. History The first written mention of the village was in 1546. After the liquidation of the Pidvolochysk Raion on 19 July 2020, the village became part of the Ternopil Raion.Постанова Верховної Ради України від 17 липня 2020 року № 807-IXПро утворення та ліквідацію районів Religion * St. Michael church (1863, brick, OCU and UGCC), * St. Michael church (1798, reconstructed in 1920 and 1991, RCC). Notable residents * Casimir Zeglen (1869–1910), Polish Catholic priest who invented a silk bulletproof vest in the late 19th century The composer, conductor, and public figure Ostap Nyzhankivskyi served as the village's parish priest; in 1898 and 1913 Ivan Franko Ivan Yakovych Franko (, ; 27 August 1856 – 28 May 1916) was a Ukrainian poet, writer, social and literary critic, journalist, translat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oblasts Of Ukraine
An oblast (, ; ), sometimes translated as region or province, is the main type of first-level administrative divisions of Ukraine, administrative division of Ukraine. The country's territory is divided into 24 oblasts, as well as one Autonomous republic of Ukraine, autonomous republic and two City with special status, cities with special status. As Ukraine is a unitary state, oblasts do not have much legal scope of competence other than that which is established in the Constitution of Ukraine, Ukrainian Constitution and devolved by law. Articles 140–146 of s:Constitution of Ukraine#Chapter IX: Territorial Structure of Ukraine, Chapter XI of the constitution deal directly with local authorities and their competence. Oblasts are divided into Raions of Ukraine, raions, with each oblast having between three and eight raions following the Raions of Ukraine#July 2020 reform, July 2020 reform. General characteristics In Ukraine, the term ''oblast'' denotes a primary administrative ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ternopil Oblast
Ternopil Oblast (), also referred to as Ternopilshchyna () or Ternopillia (), is an Oblasts of Ukraine, oblast (province) of Ukraine. Its Capital (political), administrative center is Ternopil, through which flows the Seret (river), Seret, a tributary of the Dniester. Population: One of the natural wonders of the region are its cave complexes.Tell about Ukraine. Ternopil Oblast . 24 Kanal (youtube). Although Ternopil Oblast is among the smallest regions in Ukraine, over 100 caves have been discovered there. Scientists believe these are only 20% of all possible caves in the region. The biggest cave is Optymistychna Cave. Measuring in total length, it is the longest cave in Eurasia and the list of longest caves, fifth-longest in the world. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raions Of Ukraine
A raion (; ), often translated as district, is the second-level Administrative divisions of Ukraine, administrative division in Ukraine. Raions were created in a 1922 administrative reform of the Soviet Union, to which Ukraine, as the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, belonged. On 17 July 2020, the Verkhovna Rada (Ukraine's parliament) approved an administrative reform to merge most of the 490 raions, along with the "City of regional significance (Ukraine), cities of regional significance", which were previously outside the raions, into just 136 reformed raions. Most tasks of the raions (education, healthcare, sport facilities, culture, and social welfare) were taken over by new hromadas, the subdivisions of raions.Where did 354 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ternopil Raion
Ternopil Raion () is a raion in Ternopil Oblast, western Ukraine. Its administrative center is Ternopil. It has a population of On 18 July 2020, as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, the number of raions of Ternopil Oblast was reduced to three, and the area of Ternopil Raion was significantly expanded. Six abolished raions, Berezhany, Kozova, Pidhaitsi, Pidvolochysk, Terebovlia, and Zboriv Raions, a part of one more abolished raion, Zbarazh Raion, as well as Berezhany Municipality and the city of Ternopil, which was previously incorporated as a city of oblast significance and did not belong to the raion, were merged into Ternopil Raion. The January 2020 estimate of the raion population was Subdivisions Current After the reform in July 2020, the raion consisted of 25 hromadas: * Baikivtsi rural hromada with the administration in the selo of Baikivtsi, retained from Ternopil Raion; * Bila rural hromada with the administration in the selo of Bila, retained f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hromada
In Ukraine, a hromada () is the main type of municipality and the third level Administrative divisions of Ukraine, local self-government in Ukraine. The current hromadas were established by the Cabinet of ministers of Ukraine, Government of Ukraine on 12 June 2020. A municipality is designated ''urban hromada'' if its administration is located in a city; ''settlement hromada'' if it is located in a settlement (''selyshche''), and ''rural hromada'' if it is located in a village (Village#Ukraine, ''selo'') or a ''selyshche''. Hromadas are grouped to form Raions of Ukraine, raions (districts); groups of raions form Oblasts of Ukraine, oblasts (regions). Optionally, a municipality may be divided into Starosta okruh, starosta okruhs (similar to Civil parish, civil parishes in Great Britain or Frazione, frazioni in Italy), which are the lowest level of local government in Ukraine. Similar terms exist in Poland (''gromada'') and in Belarus (''hramada''). The literal translation of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pidvolochysk Settlement Hromada
Pidvolochysk settlement hromada () is a hromada in Ukraine, in Ternopil Raion of Ternopil Oblast. The administrative center is the urban-type settlement of Pidvolochysk. Its population is . Settlements The community consists of 1 urban-type settlement (Pidvolochysk Pidvolochysk (; ; ) is a rural settlement in Ternopil, Ternopil Oblast, western Ukraine. It is situated on the right side of the Zbruch River, opposite Volochysk in neighboring Khmelnytskyi Oblast. Pidvolochysk hosts the administration of the ...) and 22 villages:Лист Тернопільської ОДА від 16 грудня 2020 року № 04-8690/42 References {{Ternopil Oblast Pidvolochysk settlement hromada ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Village
A village is a human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand. Although villages are often located in rural areas, the term urban village is also applied to certain urban neighborhoods. Villages are normally permanent, with fixed dwellings; however, transient villages can occur. Further, the dwellings of a village are fairly close to one another, not scattered broadly over the landscape, as a dispersed settlement. In the past, villages were a usual form of community for societies that practice subsistence agriculture and also for some non-agricultural societies. In Great Britain, a hamlet earned the right to be called a village when it built a church.-4; we might wonder whether there's a point at which it's appropriate to talk of the beginnings of French, that is, when it wa ... ''village'', from Latin ''villāticus'', ultimately from Latin ''villa'' (English ''vi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ukraine
Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It is the List of European countries by area, second-largest country in Europe after Russia, which Russia–Ukraine border, borders it to the east and northeast. Ukraine also borders Belarus to the north; Poland and Slovakia to the west; Hungary, Romania and Moldova to the southwest; and the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov to the south and southeast. Kyiv is the nation's capital and List of cities in Ukraine, largest city, followed by Kharkiv, Odesa, and Dnipro. Ukraine's official language is Ukrainian language, Ukrainian. Humans have inhabited Ukraine since 32,000 BC. During the Middle Ages, it was the site of early Slavs, early Slavic expansion and later became a key centre of East Slavs, East Slavic culture under the state of Kievan Rus', which emerged in the 9th century. Kievan Rus' became the largest and most powerful realm in Europe in the 10th and 11th centuries, but gradually disintegrated into rival regional powers before being d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pidvolochysk Raion
Pidvolochysk Raion () was a raion (district) in Ternopil Oblast in western Ukraine. Its capital (political), administrative center was the urban-type settlement of Pidvolochysk. The raion was abolished on 18 July 2020 as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced the number of raions of Ternopil Oblast to three. The area of Pidvolochysk Raion was merged into Ternopil Raion. The last estimate of the raion population was At the time of disestablishment, the raion consisted of three hromadas: * Pidvolochysk settlement hromada with the administration in Pidvolochysk; * Skalat urban hromada with the administration in the city of Skalat; * Skoryky rural hromada with the administration in the Village#Ukraine, selo of Skoryky, Ternopil Oblast, Skoryky. See also * Subdivisions of Ukraine References {{Authority control Former raions of Ternopil Oblast 1939 establishments in Ukraine Ukrainian raions abolished during the 2020 administrative reform ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Casimir Zeglen
Casimir Zeglen, CR (Polish: Kazimierz Żegleń; 4 March 1869 – before 1927) was a Polish Catholic priest who invented a silk bulletproof vest in the late 19th century. He was a vowed member of the Resurrectionists. Life and career Born in 1869 in Kaczanówka near Tarnopol, at the age of 18 he entered the Resurrectionist Order in Lwów (today Lviv). In 1890, he moved to the United States. In 1893, after the assassination of Carter Harrison Sr., the mayor of Chicago, he worked on an improved silk bulletproof vest. In 1897, he worked on it with Jan Szczepanik. It saved the life of Alfonso XIII, the King of Spain—his carriage was covered with Szczepanik's bulletproof armour when a bomb exploded near it. He was the pastor of St. Stanislaus Kostka Catholic Church in Chicago, then the largest Polish church in the country, with 40,000 in the parish. In his early twenties, he began experimenting with the cloth, using steel shavings, moss, and hair. In his research, he came up ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ostap Nyzhankivsky
Ostap Yosypovych Nyzhankivsky ( and ; 24 January 1863 – 22 May 1919) was a Ukrainian writer and cleric, a priest of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, composer, conductor, and public figure. Life Ostap Nyzhankivsky was born in the village of Mali Didushychi (today Stryi district of Lviv region) on 24 January 1863. He came from a large family of Greek Catholic priest of Joseph Nyzhankivsky (1836–1911), who headed the Greek Catholic parish in the village Mali Didushychi. Later the family moved to the village of Zavadiv. Ostap studied in the nearby village of Duliby and later in Drohobych and Lviv gymnasiums. Nyzhankivsky was expelled from the sixth grade of the gymnasium and had to enter military service in the Austrian army in Lviv (1882–1885). He participated in the "", where he met Ivan Franko and composer, conductor and public figure Anatole Vakhnianyn. Nyzhankivsky graduated from Lviv gymnasium in 1888. Later he studied and finished the Greek Catholic Theolog ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ivan Franko
Ivan Yakovych Franko (, ; 27 August 1856 – 28 May 1916) was a Ukrainian poet, writer, social and literary critic, journalist, translator, economist, political activist, doctor of philosophy, ethnographer, and the author of the first detective novels and modern poetry in the Ukrainian language. He was a political radical, and a founder of the socialist and nationalist movement in Western Ukraine. In addition to his own literary work, he also translated into Ukrainian the works of such renowned figures as William Shakespeare, Lord Byron, Pedro Calderón de la Barca, Dante Alighieri, Victor Hugo, Adam Mickiewicz, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Friedrich Schiller. His translations appeared on the stage of the Ruska Besida Theatre. Along with Taras Shevchenko, he has had a tremendous influence on modern literary and political thought in Ukraine. Biography Early years Franko was born in the Ukrainian village of Nahuievychi, then located in the Austrian '' kronland'' of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
