Horodok ( uk, Городок) is a city in
Khmelnytskyi Raion,
Khmelnytskyi Oblast
Khmelnytskyi Oblast ( uk, Хмельни́цька о́бласть, translit=Khmelnytska oblast; also referred to as Khmelnychchyna — uk, Хмельни́ччина) is an oblast (province) of western Ukraine covering portions of the histo ...
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province
A province is almost always an administrative division within a country or state. The term derives from the ancient Roman ''provincia'', which was the major territorial and administrative unit of the Roman Empire's territorial possessions outsi ...
) of
Ukraine
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. It hosts the administration of
Horodok urban hromada, one of the
hromadas of Ukraine.
Its population was 17,746 according to the 2001 census. Current population is
Until 18 July 2020, Horodok was the administrative center of
Horodok Raion. The raion was abolished in July 2020 as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced the number of raions of Khmelnytskyi Oblast to three. The area of Horodok Raion was merged into Khmelnytskyi Raion.
People from Horodok
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Clara Lemlich
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- American union organizer, suffragist
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Jan Paul Lenga
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* Jabhat al-Nusra (JaN), a Syrian militant group
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- Priest,
archbishop
Gallery
File:Дуб черешчатий,Городок.JPG, Ancient oak in downtown Horodok
File:Smotrych Horodok.JPG, The Smotrych River
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in Horodok
File:Horodok, Khmelnytskyi Oblast.jpg, Horodok in winter
Church in Horodok, Khmelnytskyi Oblast.jpg, Church in Horodok in winter.
References
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Cities in Khmelnytskyi Oblast
Cities of district significance in Ukraine
Podolia Voivodeship
Kamenets-Podolsky Uyezd