Lytovezh ( Ukrainian: Литовеж) is a village in the Volodymyr Raion of the

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. The population is 1507 people. It is the centre of the Lytovezh rural hromada.

Geography

After the de-establishment and dissolution of Ivanychiv Raion on July 19, 2020, the village became part of Volodymyr Raion. The elevation in meters is 187 meters above sea level. The village is located on the oriental bank of the

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. The settlement is located 5 km from Blahodatne, 12 km from Ivanychi and 10 km from

Novovolynsk Novovolynsk (, ) is a List of cities in Ukraine, city in Volyn Oblast, Ukraine. Novovolynsk, together with the rural settlement of Blahodatne, Volyn Oblast, Blahodatne and six villages, is incorporated into Novovolynsk urban hromada. Population: ...

History

In the XIV century. Lithuanian princes built a castle with powerful earthen fortifications and watchtowers. The first mention of the Lytovezh in historical documents is from the fifteenth century. In 1501, the granted Magdeburg rights were confirmed by the

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. In 1906 the village of Hrybovytsky volost of Volodymyr-Volyn raion of

Volhynia governorate Volhynia Governorate, also known as Volyn Governorate, was an administrative-territorial unit ('' guberniya'') of the Southwestern Krai of the Russian Empire. It consisted of an area of and a population of 2,989,482 inhabitants. The governorate ...

. The distance from the county town is 27 versts, from the parish 7. Yards 285, inhabitants 1710. Near the village there are the ancient remnants of what remains of the former villages and forts of: doba eneolita (4-3 millennium BC) and rannaya zaliza (late 2 thousand - early 1 thousand BC).

Population

According to the 1989 Ukrainian SSR census, the population of the village was 1607, of which 724 were men and 883 were women. According to the 2001 Ukrainian census, the village had a population of 1506 people.

Language

Distribution of the population by

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according to the 2001 census:

References

{{Volyn Oblast Villages in Volodymyr Raion