Kosiv

Kosiv

Косів

Kosiv

Basic data

Oblast :

Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast

Rajon :

Kosiv Raion

Height :

362 m

Area :

11.38 km²

Residents :

8,278 (2004)

Population density :

727 inhabitants per km²

Postcodes :

78600

Area code :

+380 3478

Geographic location :

48 ° 19 ' N , 25 ° 6' E Coordinates: 48 ° 19 '11 " N , 25 ° 5' 30" E

KOATUU :

2623610100

Administrative structure :

1 city

Mayor :

Volodymyr Piteljak

Address:

майдан Незалежності 11
78600 м. Косів

Statistical information

Kosiv

Kossiw (Ukrainian Косів ; Polish Kosów , Kosów Pokucki or Kosów Huculski , Romanian Cosău , Russian Косов / Kossow ) is a city in western Ukraine about 73 kilometers southeast of the Oblast capital Ivano-Frankivsk on the Rybnyzja River (Рибниця).

Central square of the city

Kosiv Town Hall

history

The place was mentioned in writing for the first time in 1424, a fortification of the town inhabited by the Hutsuls was destroyed by the Turks, and in 1654 it was officially granted town charter. It belonged to Austrian Galicia from 1774 to 1918 and from 1854 to 1918 was the seat of the district administration of the Kosów district of the same name and, from 1867, a district court. After the end of the First World War he came to Poland as Kosów and was here from 1921 in the Stanislau Voivodeship . With the beginning of the Second World War, Kosiv was first occupied by the Soviet Union and from 1941 to 1944 by Germany .

In 1945 the city came back to the Soviet Union , there it became part of the Ukrainian SSR and has been part of today's Ukraine since 1991.

The place is known for one of the hottest thermal springs in Europe, which was made famous in the 19th century by the medic Tarnawski.

sons and daughters of the town

Mychajlo Pawlyk (1853–1915), journalist, writer, translator and publicist
Bohdana Mazjozka (* 1989), Ukrainian alpine skier

Web links

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

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)
Kosów . In: Filip Sulimierski, Władysław Walewski (eds.): Słownik geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego i innych krajów słowiańskich . tape 4 : Kęs – Kutno . Walewskiego, Warsaw 1883, p. 473 (Polish, edu.pl ).