Sokal district

Location of the district of Sokal in the crown land of Galicia and Lodomeria

The district of Sokal was a political district in the crown land of Galicia and Lodomeria . Its territory included parts of eastern Galicia in today's Western Ukraine ( Lviv Oblast , Sokal Raion and Radekhiv Raion and Rajon Kamianka-Buska ) and Poland ( Lublin Region , hrubieszów county and Tomaszów Mazowiecki County ), seat of the district administration was the city Sokal . In November 1918, after the collapse of the Danube Monarchy at the end of World War I, the district was briefly part of the West Ukrainian People's Republic .

It bordered on the north by the Russian Empire , on the east by the district Radziechów , on the southeast by the County Kamionka Strumiłowa , the south by the district Zhovkva and the west by the District Rawa Ruska .

history

A forerunner of the later district (administrative and judicial authority at the same time) was created at the end of 1850, the district authority Sokal was subordinate to the government area of Lemberg and comprised the following judicial districts:

Sokal judicial district
Bełz judicial district
Radziechów judicial district

After the announcement in 1854, on September 29, 1855 the Sokal District Office (still responsible for administration and jurisdiction) within the ółkiew District was established.

After the district offices were abolished at the end of October 1865 and their competencies were transferred to the district offices , the division of the country into two administrative areas was also abolished after the Austro-Hungarian Compromise in 1867. In addition, in the course of the separation of the political from the judicial administration, separate administrative and judicial authorities were created. While the judicial division remained largely unaffected, municipalities of several judicial districts were combined into administrative districts.

The new political district Sokal was formed from the following districts:

Sokal district (with 38 municipalities)
Bełz District (with 42 municipalities)
Parts of the Mosty Wielkie district (municipalities Jastrębica, Hohołów, Horodyszcze Bazyliańskie, Radwance with Wulka Radwaniecka, Parchacz, Tyszyce, Wołsin with Naradna, Sielec with Zawoń and Nosate)

In the 1910 census, the Sokal district consisted of 103 communities and 91 manor areas and covered an area of 1335 km². In 1900 the population was 100,155, in 1910 109,250 people lived here. The majority of the population lived in the area with Ruthenian colloquial language (60%) and the Greek Catholic faith, Jews made up around 15% of the population.