Nove Selo (, , ) is a
village
A village is a human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand. Although villages are often located in rural areas, the term urban v ...
(''selo'') in
Drohobych Raion
Drohobych Raion () is a raion (district) of Lviv Oblast (region) of western Ukraine. Its administrative center is Drohobych. Population:
On 18 July 2020, as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, the number of raions of Lviv Oblast was re ...
,
Lviv Oblast
Lviv Oblast (, ), also referred to as Lvivshchyna (, ), is an administrative divisions of Ukraine, oblast in western Ukraine. The capital city, capital of the oblast is the city of Lviv. The current population is
History Name
The region is named ...
, in west
Ukraine
Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It is the List of European countries by area, second-largest country in Europe after Russia, which Russia–Ukraine border, borders it to the east and northeast. Ukraine also borders Belarus to the nor ...
. It belongs to
Drohobych urban hromada
Drohobych urban hromada () is a hromada (municipality) in Lviv Oblast, in western Ukraine. The hromada's administrative centre is the city of Drohobych.
Drohobych urban hromada has an area of , with a population of
Until 18 July 2020, the c ...
, one of the
hromada
In Ukraine, a hromada () is the main type of municipality and the third level Administrative divisions of Ukraine, local self-government in Ukraine. The current hromadas were established by the Cabinet of ministers of Ukraine, Government of Uk ...
s of Ukraine.
The village was established in the course of
Josephine colonization
The Josephine colonization (, ) was a state-funded Colonization, settlement campaign organised under the rule of Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor, Joseph II in the 1780s, in the then-new crownland of the Austrian Empire, Kingdom of Galicia and Lodom ...
by German Roman Catholic and Lutheran settlers (see
Galician Germans
The Galician Germans () were an ethnic German population living in the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria in the Austrian Empire, established in 1772 as a result of the First Partition of Poland, and after World War I in the four voivodeships of int ...
) in 1783.
From 1918 to 1939 the village was in
Lwów Voivodeship
Lwów Voivodeship () was an administrative unit of interwar Poland (1918–1939). Because of the Nazi invasion of Poland in accordance with the secret Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, it became occupied by both the Wehrmacht and the Red Army in Septem ...
in
Poland
Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It extends from the Baltic Sea in the north to the Sudetes and Carpathian Mountains in the south, bordered by Lithuania and Russia to the northeast, Belarus and Ukrai ...
. On 17 November 1938 the name was changed from ''Neudorf'' to ''Polminowice''.
In January 1940 the local German population was moved out (
Heim ins Reich
The ''Heim ins Reich'' (; meaning "back home to the Reich") was a foreign policy pursued by Adolf Hitler before and during World War II, beginning in October 1936 ee Nazi Four Year Plan; Grams, 2021; Grams 2025 The aim of Hitler's initiative ...
), later replaced by
Ukrainians
Ukrainians (, ) are an East Slavs, East Slavic ethnic group native to Ukraine. Their native tongue is Ukrainian language, Ukrainian, and the majority adhere to Eastern Orthodox Church, Eastern Orthodoxy, forming the List of contemporary eth ...
.
References
Nove Selo
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