Khorol (, ) is a city in
Lubny Raion,
Poltava Oblast
Poltava Oblast (), also referred to as Poltavshchyna (), is an administrative divisions of Ukraine, oblast (province) of central Ukraine. The capital city, administrative center of the oblast is the city of Poltava. Most of its territory was par ...
,
Ukraine
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. It hosts the administration of
Khorol urban hromada, one of the
hromada
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s of Ukraine.
Population:
Until 18 July 2020, Khorol was the administrative center of
Khorol Raion. The raion was abolished in July 2020 as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced the number of
raion
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s of Poltava Oblast to four. The area of Khorol Raion was merged into Lubny Raion.
Notable natives of Khorol include
Ben-Zion Dinur
Ben-Zion Dinur (; January 1884 – 8 July 1973) was a Ukrainian-born Israeli historian, educator, and politician. He held the position of professor of Jewish history at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and represented Mapai in the first ...
and
Aryeh Dvoretzky
Aryeh (Arie) Dvoretzky (, ; May 3, 1916 – May 8, 2008) was a Ukrainian-born Israeli mathematician, the winner of the 1973 Israel Prize in Mathematics. He is best known for his work in functional analysis, statistics and probability. He was t ...
.
Name
The town is named after the
Khorol River upon which it is situated.
Population
Language
Distribution of the population by native language according to the
2001 census:
Gallery
File:Хорол. Успенська церква.JPG, Assumption Church in Khorol
File:Bahnhof Chorol.jpg, Railway station
File:M03 Poltava.jpg, M03 highway near Khorol
File:Старий міст через Хорол.jpg, Khorol River
References
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Cities in Poltava Oblast
Khorolsky Uyezd
Cities of district significance in Ukraine