Bila () is a village in

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 ...

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History

The existence of the village became known in the second half of the 16th century, in a document of the Polish magnate

Konstanty Wasyl Ostrogski Konstanty Wasyl Ostrogski (; ; ; 2 February 1526 – 13 or 23 February 1608) was a Ruthenian Orthodox magnate of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, a prince, starost of Volodymyr, marshal of Volhynia and voivode of the Kiev Voivodeship. O ...

, where the fields that at that time belonged to Tarnopol were registered. In 1884,

Oleksander Barvinsky Oleksandr Hryhorovych Barvinsky () (June 8, 1847 – December 25, 1926) was an important western Ukrainian cultural figure and politician, a founder of the Christian Social Party in western Ukraine. He also was a member of the Austrian parlia ...

launched one of the main cultural centers in the area here. In 1912, the first Ternopil airfield was established in Bila, where some of the first flight demonstrations in present-day Ukraine were made. Until the creation of the current municipality in 2018, the town formed a rural council on its own.

Geography

Bila is located on the northern outskirts of the regional capital

Ternopil Ternopil, known until 1944 mostly as Tarnopol, is a city in western Ukraine, located on the banks of the Seret River. Ternopil is one of the major cities of Western Ukraine and the historical regions of Galicia and Podolia. The populatio ...

, at the exit of the city from the P39 road leading to

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. The village is separated from the capital by the Ternopil-Vantazhnyi railway station and the adjoining industrial estate.

Religion

* St. Nicholas Church (1601, restored in 1910; restored in 1989, UGCC), * Church of St. Kniahynia Olha (1997, brick; architect Y. Viunov, OCU), * Church of the Intercession (2004, brick, UGCC), * Spiritual youth center and Sunday school (1927, former Roman Catholic church, UGCC)

Demographics

In 2007, 2,927 people lived in the village.

Languages

Native language as of the Ukrainian Census of 2001:

References

Sources

* * * {{Bila rural hromada Bila rural hromada Villages in Ternopil Raion