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Sheptytskyi
Sheptytskyi (, ), formerly Chervonohrad (, ), historically Krystynopol, is a historical mining town and the administrative center of Sheptytskyi Raion, Lviv Oblast of western Ukraine. It hosts the administration of Sheptytskyi urban hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. Sheptytskyi lies about 62 km north of Lviv, 7 km from Sokal, 28 km northeast of the town of Voroniv, and has a population of History In May 1685, the Hetmans of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, Crown hetman and Kraków Voivode Feliks Kazimierz Potocki purchased land along the Bug River. In 1692, he founded a city on the lands of the village Novyi Dvir (, ) and named it "Krystynopol" after his wife Krystyna Lubomirska (d. 1669), Krystyna Lubomirska (the suffix "-pol" derives from Greek language, Greek "polis"). Potocki made the city his family center. He died here on 22 September 1702. His grandson Franciszek Salezy Potocki built a palace and in 1763 founded a monastery of Order of Saint B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sheptytskyi Raion
Sheptytskyi Raion () is a raion (district) of Lviv Oblast, Ukraine. It was known as Chervonohrad Raion () from 2020 until 2024. The center of the raion is the city of Sheptytskyi. Population: History From the 12th century, the area that is now Sheptytskyi Raion was part of the Duchy of Belz, before being incorporated into the Polish Belz Voivodeship in the 15th century. The areas became part of the Ukrainian SSR as a result of the 1951 Polish–Soviet territorial exchange. The raion was created as Chervonohrad Raion on 18 July 2020 as part of the reform of administrative divisions of Ukraine. Two abolished raions, Radekhiv and Sokal Raions, as well as Chervonohrad Municipality and part of Kamianka-Buzka Raion, were merged into the new raion. On 19 September 2024, the Verkhovna Rada voted to rename Chervonohrad Raion to Sheptytskyi Raion along with the renaming of Chervonohrad to Sheptytskyi. Geography Sheptytskyi Raion is located in the northern part of Lviv Oblast, on the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sheptytskyi Urban Hromada
Chervonohrad urban hromada () is an urban hromada (municipality) located in Ukraine's western Lviv Oblast, in Sheptytskyi Raion. Its administrative centre is the city of Sheptytskyi. Chervonohrad urban hromada has an area of . The population of the hromada is Until 18 July 2020, Sheptytskyi was designated as a city of oblast significance. As part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced the number of raions of Lviv Oblast to seven, Sheptytskyi was merged into the newly established Sheptytskyi Raion. Before being abolished, Sheptytskyi's municipality also included the city of Sosnivka (until 2019) and the urban-type settlement of Hirnyk. Settlements In addition to two cities (Sheptytskyi and Sosnivka) and one urban-type settlement Urban-type settlement, abbreviated: ; , abbreviated: ; ; ; ; . is an official designation for lesser urbanized settlements, used in several Central and Eastern Europe, Central and Eastern European countries. The term was prima ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Voroniv
Voroniv (; ), is a selo located in western Ukraine. It is part of the Sheptytskyi Raion, Lviv Oblast, and is situated approximately 10 km from the western border with Poland. Voroniv belongs to Belz urban hromada, one of the 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 Uk ...s of Ukraine. Until 18 July 2020, Voroniv belonged to Sokal 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 Sokal Raion was merged into Sheptytskyi Raion. References Villages in Sheptytskyi Raion {{Lviv-geo-stub ... [...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] |
Sokal
Sokal (, ) is a city located on the Bug River in Sheptytskyi Raion, Lviv Oblast of western Ukraine. It hosts the administration of Sokal urban hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. The population is approximately History The first written mention of Sokal dates from 1377. In 1424, it received Magdeburg rights from Siemowit IV, Duke of Masovia, and in 1462, the town became part of Bełz Voivodeship, Lesser Poland Province. On August 2, 1519, following the defeat of a Polish-Lithuanian army under Hetman Konstanty Ostrogski by Crimean Tatars, the town was razed by the invaders. Mikolaj Sep-Szarzynski later dedicated one of his poems to this battle. In 1619, Armenians in Sokal were first mentioned. The town remained part of Poland until the First Partition of Poland, when it was annexed by the Habsburg Empire, as part of Galicia. It was the capital of the Sokal district, one of the 78 ''Bezirkshauptmannschaften'' in the Austrian Galicia province (Crown land) in 1900. Afte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lviv Oblast
Lviv Oblast (, ), also referred to as Lvivshchyna (, ), is an administrative divisions of Ukraine, oblast in western Ukraine. The capital city, capital of the oblast is the city of Lviv. The current population is History Name The region is named after the city of Lviv which was founded by Daniel of Galicia, the Kingdom_of_Galicia–Volhynia#Princes_and_kings, King of Galicia, in the 13th century, where it became the capital of Kingdom of Galicia–Volhynia, Galicia-Volhynia. Daniel named the city after his son, Leo I of Halych, Leo. During this time, the general region around Lviv was known as Kingdom of Galicia–Volhynia, Galicia–Volhynia — one of the strongest and most stable kingdoms in Eastern Europe of that time. Early history The oblast's strategic position at the heart of central Europe and as the gateway to the Carpathian Mountains, Carpathians has caused it to change hands many times over the centuries. In the Early Middle Ages, the territory was inhabited by the L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Franciszek Salezy Potocki
Franciszek Salezy Potocki (1700 – 22 October 1772) was a Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, Polish szlachta, nobleman, diplomat, politician and knight of the Order of the White Eagle (Poland), Order of the White Eagle, awarded on 3 August 1750, in Warsaw. Potocki was the wealthiest magnate of his time and the owner of large properties in Dnieper Ukraine, then part of the Crown of Poland, Polish Crown. Nicknamed "Little King of Ruthenia" ("''królik Rusi''"). Franciszek became Krajczy, Krajczy of the Crown in 1736, Field Clerk of the Crown and voivode of Wołyń Voivodeship (1569–1795), Volhynian Voivodship in 1755, voivode of Kijów Voivodship in 1755–1771 and starost of Belz, Hrubieszów, Ropczyce, Sokal, Jablonów, Jabłonów and Opalin. Bibliography * Urzędnicy województwa bełskiego i ziemi chełmskiej XIV-XVIII wieku. Spisy. Oprac. Henryk Gmiterek i Ryszard Szczygieł. Kórnik 1992, p. 255. * Teka Gabriela Junoszy Podoskiego, t. III, Poznań 1856, p. 303. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bug River
The Bug or Western Bug is a major river in Central Europe that flows through Belarus (border), Poland, and Ukraine, with a total length of .Statistical Yearbook of the Republic of Poland 2017 Statistics Poland, p. 85-86 A of the Narew, the Bug forms part of the |
List Of Cities In Ukraine
There are 463 populated places in Ukraine, populated places in Ukraine that have been officially granted city status () by the Verkhovna Rada, the country's parliament, as of 23 April 2025. Settlements with more than 10,000 people are eligible for city status although the status is typically also granted to settlements of historical or regional importance. Smaller settlements are Populated places in Ukraine#Rural settlements, rural settlements () and villages (). Historically, there were systems of city rights, granted by the territorial lords, which defined the status of a place as a ''misto'' or ''selo''. In the past, cities were self-governing and had several privileges. The list of cities is roughly ordered by population and the 2022 estimates are compared to the 2001 Ukrainian census, except for Chernobyl for which the population is an unofficial estimate. The City with special status, cities with special status are shown in ''italic''. The average population size is 62,000. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greek Language
Greek (, ; , ) is an Indo-European languages, Indo-European language, constituting an independent Hellenic languages, Hellenic branch within the Indo-European language family. It is native to Greece, Cyprus, Italy (in Calabria and Salento), southern Albania, and other regions of the Balkans, Caucasus, the Black Sea coast, Asia Minor, and the Eastern Mediterranean. It has the list of languages by first written accounts, longest documented history of any Indo-European language, spanning at least 3,400 years of written records. Its writing system is the Greek alphabet, which has been used for approximately 2,800 years; previously, Greek was recorded in writing systems such as Linear B and the Cypriot syllabary. The Greek language holds a very important place in the history of the Western world. Beginning with the epics of Homer, ancient Greek literature includes many works of lasting importance in the European canon. Greek is also the language in which many of the foundational texts ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Krystyna Lubomirska (d
The House of Lubomirski is a Princely Houses of Poland, Polish princely family. The Lubomirski family's coat of arms is the Drużyna coat of arms, which is similar to the Szreniawa coat of arms but without a cross. Origin and the coat of arms The Lubomirski family have been actors in the history of Poland since the 10th century. There are two theories regarding the family's origin. One, by Adam Boniecki, a Polish heraldist, assumes that there were two branches of the family. One settled at the Szreniawa River in Proszowice County while the other established itself in Szczyrzyc County. The time of this division of the family is not known, but most likely it was before the adoption of Religion in Poland, Christianity by Poland. The Szreniawici family used a similar coat of arms, which means that the two families had the same ancestry. At the time of Mieszko I of Poland, Mieszko I, the members of the Lubomirski family demonstrated bravery in battle against paganism, pagans ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
