Dubrovytsia
Dubrovytsia | ||
Дубровиця | ||
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Oblast : | Rivne Oblast | |
Rajon : | Dubrovitsia district | |
Height : | no information | |
Area : | 5.87 km² | |
Residents : | 9,691 (2004) | |
Population density : | 1,651 inhabitants per km² | |
Postcodes : | 34108 | |
Area code : | +380 3658 | |
Geographic location : | 51 ° 34 ' N , 26 ° 34' E | |
KOATUU : | 5621810100 | |
Administrative structure : | 1 city | |
Mayor : | Bogdan Mikulski | |
Address: | вул. Воробинська 4 34100 м. Дубровиця |
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Website : | http://dubr.org.ua/ | |
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Dubrowyzja ( Ukrainian Дубровиця ; Russian Дубровица Dubrowiza , Polish Dąbrowica ) is a Ukrainian city with a little over 9,000 inhabitants. It is located in Rivne Oblast on the banks of the Horyn, north of the district capital, Rivne . The next bigger cities are Sarny and Warasch .
history
The city was mentioned in writing for the first time in 1005 and was then the main town of the Principality of Dubrovitsa . Later it was part of the aristocratic republic of Poland-Lithuania in the Volyn Voivodeship until 1793 . Then it came to the newly founded Volhynia Governorate as part of the Russian Empire . After the end of the First World War , the village became part of the Second Polish Republic ( Voivodeship Volhynia , Powiat Sarny, Gmina Dąbrowica). After the outbreak of the Second World War , the area was occupied by the Soviet Union and from 1941 by Germany . In 1945 it came back to the Soviet Union and was incorporated into the Ukrainian SSR . After the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, it finally became part of independent Ukraine.
Personalities
- Georges Charpak (1924-2010) - Polish-French physicist , 1992 Nobel Prize laureate .
Web links
- Dąbrowica . In: Filip Sulimierski, Władysław Walewski (eds.): Słownik geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego i innych krajów słowiańskich . tape 1 : Aa-Dereneczna . Sulimierskiego and Walewskiego, Warsaw 1880, p. 931 (Polish, edu.pl ).