Knjahynytschi (Rohatyn)
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| Княгиничі | |||
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| Oblast : | Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast | ||
| Rajon : | Rohatyn district | ||
| Height : | 274 m | ||
| Area : | 8.86 km² | ||
| Residents : | 718 (2001) | ||
| Population density : | 81 inhabitants per km² | ||
| Postcodes : | 77030 | ||
| Area code : | +380 3235 | ||
| Geographic location : | 49 ° 23 ' N , 24 ° 28' E | ||
| KOATUU : | 2624482501 | ||
| Administrative structure : | 2 villages | ||
| Address: | вул. Шухевича 10 77030 с. Княгиничі |
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Knjahynytschi (Ukrainian Княгиничі ; Russian Княгиничи / Knjaginitschi , Polish Knihynicze ) is a village in the Ukrainian Oblast Ivano-Frankivsk in western Ukraine with about 800 inhabitants.
The village is located in the west of the historical landscape of Galicia in Rohatyn Raion on the Swirsch River , about 11 kilometers west of the Rohatyn Rajon center and 55 kilometers northwest of the Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast center. The Knjahynytschi Lake extends north of the village .
Together with the village of Sahirja (Загір'я) it forms the district council of Knjahynytschi .
The place was mentioned in writing for the first time in 1430 as Knyechinicze , received Magdeburg town charter in 1563 , was initially in the aristocratic republic of Poland-Lithuania , Voivodeship Ruthenia , and came in 1772 as Kniechinicze (later Knihynicze ) to the Austrian crown land of Galicia (until 1918 as a market then in the Rohatyn district ).
After the end of the First World War, the place became part of Poland , was here from 1921 as Knihynicze in the voivodeship Stanislau , Powiat Rohatyn , Gmina Knihynicze and was only occupied by the Soviet Union in the Second World War and from 1941 to 1944 by Germany and the district of Galicia connected. After being reconquered by Soviet troops in 1944, it came back to the Soviet Union in 1945 and was incorporated into the Ukrainian SSR , since 1991 the place has been part of today's Ukraine. Under Soviet rule, the market status was revoked in 1939 when it was downgraded to a village.
Web links
- Entry on the place in the Encyclopedia of the History of Cities and Villages of the Ukrainian SSR (Ukrainian)
- Knihynicze . In: Filip Sulimierski, Władysław Walewski (eds.): Słownik geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego i innych krajów słowiańskich . tape 4 : Kęs – Kutno . Walewskiego, Warsaw 1883, p. 197 (Polish, edu.pl ).
