Khorostkiv ( uk, Хоростків, pl, Chorostków, yi, כראָסקעוו, Chorostkov) is a city in
Chortkiv Raion
Chortkiv Raion ( uk, Чортківський район) is a raion in Ternopil Oblast in western Ukraine. Its administrative center is the city of Chortkiv. It has a population of
On 18 July 2020, as part of the administrative reform of U ...
,
Ternopil Oblast,
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 invas ...
. It hosts the administration of
Khorostkiv urban hromada
Khorostkiv ( uk, Хоростків, pl, Chorostków, yi, כראָסקעוו, Chorostkov) is a city in Chortkiv Raion, Ternopil Oblast, Ukraine. It hosts the administration of Khorostkiv urban hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. Population ...
, one of the
hromadas of Ukraine.
Population:
History
In the
Second Polish Republic
The Second Polish Republic, at the time officially known as the Republic of Poland, was a country in Central and Eastern Europe that existed between 1918 and 1939. The state was established on 6 November 1918, before the end of the First World ...
, Khorostkiv, then known as Chorostków, belonged to the County of Kopczynce,
Tarnopol Voivodeship
Tarnopol Voivodeship ( pl, Województwo tarnopolskie) was an administrative region of interwar Poland (1918–1939), created on 23 December 1920, with an area of 16,500 km² and provincial capital in Tarnopol (now ''Ternopil'', Ukraine). The voi ...
. The town is the birthplace of Polish painter
Jan Maszkowski (born 1793), and Jesuit theologist, translator and scholar
Stanislaw Stys Stanislav and variants may refer to:
People
*Stanislav (given name), a Slavic given name with many spelling variations (Stanislaus, Stanislas, Stanisław, etc.)
Places
* Stanislav, a coastal village in Kherson, Ukraine
* Stanislaus County, Cali ...
(born 1896).
City since 1977.
In January 1989 the population was 8811 people.
Until 18 July 2020, Khorostkiv belonged to
Husiatyn Raion
Husiatyn Raion ( uk, Гусятинський район) was a raion in Ternopil Oblast in western Ukraine. Its administrative center was the urban-type settlement of Husiatyn. The raion was abolished on 18 July 2020 as part of the administrative ...
. The raion was abolished in July 2020 as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced the number of raions of Ternopil Oblast to three. The area of Husiatyn Raion was merged into Chortkiv Raion.
Gallery
File:Хоростків Каплиця 2.jpg, Chapel in Khorostkiv cemetery
File:Хоростків Комплекс маєтку 1.jpg, Abandoned dwór (mansion)
File:Хоростків Кінний манеж.jpg, Former riding hall
File:Polish-postage-due-stamp-1924-cancel-Chorostkow.jpg, A postage due stamp of the Second Polish Republic issued in 1924, and cancelled in the town of Chorostkow
References
External links
Chorostkow Book - Sefer Chorostkow - Committee of Former Residents of Chorostkow in Israel, 1968 (418 pages)
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Cities in Ternopil Oblast
Shtetls
Cities of district significance in Ukraine