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Strilky, Lviv Oblast
Strilky () is a village in Sambir Raion, Lviv Oblast in western Ukraine. It is the administrative centre of the Strilky rural hromada, which includes 21 villages. As of 2021, according to official data, the population is 2,175, with 1,587 being adults. History Archaeological research in the 1990s indicates that the lands of the village of Strilky have been a refuge for human civilization since ancient times. A bronze Age settlement (late 3d to early 1st millenium BCE) was discovered at the village entrance from Upper Luzhko. It is located on the south side of the railway line and on the right bank of the Topilchanka River. The river is a right tributary of the Dniester. The settlement sits at an elevation of 8-10 meters above the floodplain. On the northeastern outskirts of the village, about 0.5 km from the boarding school in the same direction, a settlement of the Frankish Galstatt culture was found. It is located on the right bank of the Olenka stream. Known since 1437, t ... [...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] |
List Of Sovereign States
The following is a list providing an overview of sovereign states around the world with information on their status and recognition of their sovereignty. The 205 listed states can be divided into three categories based on membership within the United Nations System: 193 member states of the United Nations, UN member states, two United Nations General Assembly observers#Current non-member observers, UN General Assembly non-member observer states, and ten other states. The ''sovereignty dispute'' column indicates states having undisputed sovereignty (188 states, of which there are 187 UN member states and one UN General Assembly non-member observer state), states having disputed sovereignty (15 states, of which there are six UN member states, one UN General Assembly non-member observer state, and eight de facto states), and states having a political status of the Cook Islands and Niue, special political status (two states, both in associated state, free association with New ... [...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] |
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] |
Sambir Raion
Sambir Raion () is a raion (district) in Lviv Oblast in western Ukraine. Its capital (political), administrative center is Sambir. Population: It was established in 1965. On 18 July 2020, as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, the number of raions of Lviv Oblast was reduced to seven, and the area of Sambir Raion was significantly expanded. Two abolished raions, Staryi Sambir Raion, Staryi Sambir and Turka Raions, as well as the city of Sambir, which was previously incorporated as a City of regional significance (Ukraine), city of oblast significance and did not belong to the raion, were merged into Sambir Raion. The January 2020 estimate of the raion population was Subdivisions Current After the reform in July 2020, the raion consisted of 11 hromadas: * Biskovychi rural hromada with the administration in the village#Ukraine, selo of Biskovychi, retained from Sambir Raion; * Borynia settlement hromada with the administration in the urban-type settlement of Borynia, Ukra ... [...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] |
Strilky Rural Hromada
The Strilky rural hromada is a mountainous rural hromada in Sambir Raion, Lviv Oblast, Ukraine. Located in the western part of the Sambir Raion, its territory is entirely within the Upper Dniester Beskids (Carpathian Mountains), covering an area of 327.4 km2 (9.9% of the raion's area). The community comprises 21 villages with a population of 14, 470 residents (6.2% of the raion's population), and 10,822 adults. It borders the Staryi Sambir urban hromada to the north, the Turka urban hromada to the south, the Skhidnytsia urban hromada of the Drohobych Raion to the east, and the Republic of Poland to the west. The hromada was recently established, at the end of 2020. On the territory of the Strilky hromada are the Royal Beskids National Nature Park and the "Upper Dniester Beskids" Regional Landscape Park. Formed based on the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine decree dated June 12, 2020, 'On determining administrative centers and approving the territories of territorial hroma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mykhailo Verbytskyi
Mykhailo Mykhailovych Verbytskyi ( ; March 4, 1815 – December 7, 1870), also anglicized as Michael Werbitzky, was a List of Ukrainian composers, Ukrainian composer and a priest of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church. He is considered to be one of the first professional composers of Galicia (Eastern Europe), Galicia. He is best known for composing the melody to the national anthem of Ukraine. Verbytskyi's national anthem became widely played by orchestras and musicians around the world in support of Ukraine as a result of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Biography Mykhailo Verbytskyi was born in :uk:Надсяння, Nadsiannia. Sources often differ as to the exact location of his birth, with some claiming he was born in Jawornik RuskiЯк «з� ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church
The Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church (UGCC) is a Major archiepiscopal church, major archiepiscopal ''sui iuris'' ("autonomous") Eastern Catholic Churches, Eastern Catholic church that is based in Ukraine. As a particular church of the Catholic Church, it is in full communion with the Holy See. It is the second-largest particular church in the Catholic Church, after the Latin Church. The major archbishop presides over the entire Church but is not distinguished with the patriarchal title. The incumbent Major Archbishop is Sviatoslav Shevchuk. The church regards itself as a successor to the Metropolis of Kiev and all Rus', metropolis that was established in 988 following the Christianization of Kievan Rus' by Grand Prince Vladimir the Great. Following the establishment of the Metropolis of Kiev, Galicia and all Rus' (1441–1596), metropolis of Kiev, Galicia and all Rus', by the terms of the Union of Brest, the Ruthenian church was transferred from the ecclesiastical jurisdictio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Anthem Of Ukraine
The State Anthem of Ukraine, also known by its incipit "" and its original title "", is one of the state symbols of Ukraine. The lyrics are a slightly modified version of the first verse and chorus of the patriotic song "", written in 1862 by Pavlo Chubynskyi, an ethnographer from Kyiv. In 1863, Mykhailo Verbytskyi, a composer and Catholic priest, composed the music to accompany Chubynskyi's lyrics. The first choral public performance of the piece was in 1864 at the Ukrainska Besida Theatre, Ruska Besida Theatre in Lviv. In 1865, the song was performed in the Polish city of Przemyśl (then part of the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria, Austrian Empire) during a commemoration of Taras Shevchenko. This historic moment later became the foundation for Ukraine’s National Anthem Day, which is celebrated yearly on March 10. In the first half of the 20th century, during unsuccessful attempts to gain independence and create a state from the territories of the Russian Empire, Kingdo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ukrainian Insurgent Army
The Ukrainian Insurgent Army (, abbreviated UPA) was a Ukrainian nationalist partisan formation founded by the Organisation of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) on 14 October 1942. The UPA launched guerrilla warfare against Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union, and both the Polish Underground State and Polish Communists. The UPA carried out massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia, which are recognized by Poland as a genocide. The goal of the OUN was to establish an independent Ukrainian state. This goal, according to the OUN founding declaration, "was to be achieved by a national revolution led by a dictatorship" that would drive out occupying powers and then establish a "government representing all regions and social groups"; OUN accepted violence as a political tool against enemies of their cause.Myroslav Yurkevich, Canadian Institute of Ukrainian StudiesOrganization of Ukrainian Nationalists (Orhanizatsiia ukrainskykh natsionalistiv)''This article originally appeared ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
