Kosjowa

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Kosjowa
Козьова
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Kosjowa (Ukraine)
Kosjowa
Kosjowa
Basic data
Oblast : Lviv Oblast
Rajon : Skole district
Height : 637 m
Area : 4.4449 km²
Residents : 960 (2001)
Population density : 216 inhabitants per km²
Postcodes : 82631
Area code : +380 3251
Geographic location : 48 ° 57 '  N , 23 ° 21'  E Coordinates: 48 ° 57 '3 "  N , 23 ° 20' 43"  E
KOATUU : 4624583001
Administrative structure : 3 villages
Address: 82631 с. Козьова
Website : Website of the district council
Statistical information
Kosjowa (Lviv Oblast)
Kosjowa
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Kosjowa ( Ukrainian Козьова ; Russian Козёва Kosjowa , Polish Koziowa ) is a village in the south of the Ukrainian Lviv Oblast with about 950 inhabitants (2001) and an area of ​​4.4449 km².

The restored wooden church of St. Nicholas from 1926

In the village there is the wooden St. Nicholas Church from 1926 and a lyceum of the Lviv National University . The village also has an oil pumping station on the Druzhba oil pipeline that runs through Kosjowa.

Geographical location

The M 06 trunk road in Kosjowa

Kosjowa lies at an altitude of 637  m in the valley of the Orjawa ( Орява ), a 29 km long left tributary of the Opir on the ridge of the Zwinin in the Carpathian Forest on the edge of the Skoler Beskydy National Park . The M 06 / E 471 pass road runs through the village .

The Skole district center is located 18 km northeast and the Lviv Oblast center 125 km northeast of the village.

local community

Kosjowa is the administrative center of the same name, 31.54 km² District Municipality in western Skole to which even the villages Orjawtschyk ( Орявчик , ) with about 180 inhabitants, Tyssowez ( Тисовець , part) with about 150 inhabitants and a winter sports complex .

history

German postcard from the First World War

In the village, founded in 1538, the battle of the First World War between the Russian Empire and the Central Powers , known as the " Storming of the Zwinin ", took place in 1915 .

Until the first partition of Poland in 1772, the village belonged to the aristocratic republic of Poland-Lithuania . Then it was in the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria , a crown land of the Habsburg Monarchy and the Habsburg Empire / Austria-Hungary . After the end of the First World War, the village briefly belonged to the West Ukrainian People's Republic before it fell to the Second Polish Republic after the Polish-Ukrainian War . After the beginning of the Second World War , Kosjowa was first occupied by the Soviet Union and in the summer of 1941 by the German Reich and incorporated into the Generalgouvernement , District of Galicia . After the Second World War, the village became part of the Ukrainian SSR within the Soviet Union and, after its disintegration in 1991, part of the independent Ukraine.

Web links

Commons : Kosjowa  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. a b local website on the official website of the Verkhovna Rada ; accessed on January 10, 2019 (Ukrainian)
  2. Data map for the village on the official website of the district council; accessed on January 10, 2019 (Ukrainian)
  3. a b Kosjowa on karpaty.info ; accessed on January 10, 2019 (Ukrainian)
  4. About the village of Kosjowa on skole.com.ua ; accessed on January 10, 2019 (Ukrainian)
  5. a b Statistical data of the village on the official website of the district council; accessed on January 10, 2019 (Ukrainian)
  6. Tyssowez website ; accessed on January 10, 2019 (Ukrainian)