Borschtschiw
Borschtschiw | ||
Борщів | ||
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Oblast : | Ternopil Oblast | |
Rajon : | Borschtschiv Raion | |
Height : | 259 m | |
Area : | 2.66 km² | |
Residents : | 11,251 (2004) | |
Population density : | 4,230 inhabitants per km² | |
Postcodes : | 48702 | |
Area code : | +380 3541 | |
Geographic location : | 48 ° 48 ' N , 26 ° 2' E | |
KOATUU : | 6120850100 | |
Administrative structure : | 1 city , 8 villages | |
Mayor : | Ivan Bashnyak | |
Address: | вул. Грушевського 2 48702 м. Борщів |
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Borshchiv (Ukrainian Борщів ; Russian Борщёв / Borschtschjow , Polish Borszczow ) is a small Ukrainian town of about 11,000 inhabitants east of the river Nitschlawa (Нічлава), a tributary of the Dnister .
Borschtschiw is the center of the Rajon of the same name and is located on the southern edge of Ternopil Oblast , to the north are Chortkiv and - about 110 kilometers away - the Oblast capital Ternopil .
On 30 June 2016, the city was the center of the newly established municipality Borshchiv (Борщівська міська громада / Borschtschiwska miska hromada ) to this are also the eight villages Koroliwka , Muschkatiwka (Мушкатівка) Pyschtschatynzi (Пищатинці), Sloboda Muschkatiwska (Слобідка- Мушкатівська), Strilkivtsi (Стрілківці), Verkhnyakivtsi (Верхняківці), Vysichka (Висічка) and Zyhany (Цигани).
history
The exact founding date of Borschtschiw is unknown; the first documentary mention dates from the year 1456, and in 1629 the place received the city charter according to Magdeburg law . At that time, the place was in the aristocratic republic of Poland-Lithuania in the Podolia Voivodeship . After the first division of Poland in 1772, the city fell after the first division of Poland as the eastern part of Galicia to Austria and after 1867 to Austria-Hungary and was the seat of the district administration of the Borszczów district here . The construction of the Teresin – Iwanie Puste local railway by the East Galician local railway from Chortkiv to Iwane-Puste in 1898 brought about an economic upswing for Borschtschiw.
- 1340–1569 in the Kingdom of Poland .
- 1569–1772 in the Podolia Voivodeship , an administrative unit of the aristocratic republic of Poland-Lithuania .
- 1772–1918 in Galicia as part of the Habsburg monarchy
After the collapse of the Danube Monarchy at the end of the First World War in November 1918, the city was briefly part of the West Ukrainian People's Republic . During the Polish-Ukrainian War , the newly founded Poland also occupied the last parts of the Western Ukrainian People's Republic in July 1919. On November 21, 1919, the High Council of the Paris Peace Conference awarded Eastern Galicia to Poland.
- 1921–1939 part of the Tarnopol Voivodeship in the Republic of Poland
In 1919, under Józef Piłsudski , Poland conquered parts of Ukraine and with it Borschtschiw as part of the Polish-Soviet war ; until 1939, when the part of the country fell to the Ukrainian SSR , the city was Polish. Borschiw has been part of independent Ukraine since 1991.
Web links
- Entry on the place in the Encyclopedia of Modern Ukraine (Ukrainian)
- Entry on the place in the Encyclopedia of the History of Cities and Villages of the Ukrainian SSR (Ukrainian)
- Borszczów . In: Filip Sulimierski, Władysław Walewski (eds.): Słownik geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego i innych krajów słowiańskich . tape 1 : Aa-Dereneczna . Sulimierskiego and Walewskiego, Warsaw 1880, p. 326 (Polish, edu.pl ).
- Russian map of the city and the surrounding area
Individual evidence
- ↑ Відповідно до Закону України "Про добровільне об'єднання територіальних громад" ку іномад "ку ірнопільсу
- ↑ Rizzi Zannoni, Karta Podola, znaczney części Wołynia, płynienie Dniestru od Uścia, aż do Chocima y Ładowa, Bogu od swego zrzodła, aż do Ładyczyna, pogranicze Mołdawy, Bracuskiekiego Kziegoows Bełows .; 1772
- ↑ ACA Friederich, historical-geographical representation of old and new Poland; 1839, p. 399