Horodnytsia

The title of this article is ambiguous. Further meanings are listed under Horodnyzja (disambiguation) .

Horodnytsia
Городниця
	Horodnytsia
Basic data
Oblast :	Zhytomyr Oblast
Rajon :	Novohrad-Volynskyi district
Height :	no information
Area :	6.64 km²
Residents :	5,411 (2014)
Population density :	815 inhabitants per km²
Postcodes :	11714
Area code :	+380 4141
Geographic location :	50 ° 49 ′  N , 27 ° 19 ′  E Coordinates: 50 ° 48 ′ 34 "  N , 27 ° 19 ′ 6"  E
KOATUU :	1824055600
Administrative structure :	1 urban-type settlement
Address:	вул. Петровського 8 11714 смт. Городниця
Statistical information
Horodnytsia

Horodnyzja ( Ukrainian Городниця ; Russian Городница Gorodnitsa ) is an urban-type settlement in the west of the Ukrainian Oblast of Zhytomyr with about 5400 inhabitants (2014).

Church building in place

The village, first mentioned in 1390, received the status of an urban-type settlement in 1938 and has since formed its own settlement council.

In August 2020, a more than 1,000-year-old treasure was found in Horodnyzja, the 32 silver coins from the time of the Great Vladimir and Svyatopolk I. contained. This is the largest coin find in Ukraine in over a hundred years.

geography

Horodnyzja is located on the banks of the Slutsch in the Novohrad-Wolynskyj district, 44 km northwest of the Novohrad-Wolynskyj district center and 121 km northwest of the Zhytomyr district center .

Web links

• Entry on Horodnytsya in the Encyclopedia of Modern Ukraine (Ukrainian)
• Entry on Horodnytsia in the Encyclopedia of the History of Cities and Villages of the Ukrainian SSR (Ukrainian)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Cities in Ukraine at pop-stat.mashke.org, last accessed on February 18, 2015
2. ↑ 32 silver coins that were minted more than a thousand years ago and were found in the Zhytomyr region on suspilne.media from August 28, 2020 (Ukrainian)