Kosiv (village)
| Kosiv | |||
| Косів | |||
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| Oblast : | Ternopil Oblast | ||
| Rajon : | Chortkiv district | ||
| Height : | 330 m | ||
| Area : | 0.479 km² | ||
| Residents : | 1,511 (2004) | ||
| Population density : | 3,154 inhabitants per km² | ||
| Postcodes : | 48511 | ||
| Area code : | +380 3552 | ||
| Geographic location : | 49 ° 6 ' N , 25 ° 38' E | ||
| KOATUU : | 6125584901 | ||
| Administrative structure : | 1 village | ||
| Mayor : | Andrij Bidochko | ||
| Address: | 48511 с. Косів | ||
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Kosiv (Ukrainian Косів ; Russian Косов / Kossow , Polish Kosów ) is a village in Chortkiv district of Ternopil Oblast in western Ukraine about 17 kilometers northwest of the district capital Chortkiv and 50 kilometers south of the Oblast capital Ternopil on the river Bilyj Potik (Білкий Бітіj Potik). The hamlet of Chomykiwka (Хомиківка, Polish Chomiakówka ) , which is no longer an independent hamlet, is also part of the municipality .
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The place was mentioned in writing for the first time in 1450 and was initially in the Podolia Voivodeship as part of the aristocratic republic of Poland . From 1772 to 1918, with an interruption between 1810 and 1815, when it had to be ceded to Russia as part of the Tarnopol district , it belonged to Austrian Galicia under its Polish name of Kosów .
After the end of the First World War, the place became part of Poland (in the Voivodeship Tarnopol , Powiat Czortków , Gmina Kosów ), was occupied by the Soviet Union from September 1939 and then by Germany from summer 1941 to 1944 , here the place was in incorporated the district of Galicia . During the Soviet occupation of eastern Poland , the place became the capital of the district of Kosiv in January 1940 , and the district was renamed after the district center was moved to Biloboshnytsia in the autumn of the same year.
After the end of the war the place was added to the Soviet Union , there the village came to the Ukrainian SSR and has been part of today's Ukraine since 1991.
On the night of July 4th to 5th, 2000, a hurricane destroyed and damaged 520 buildings in the town.
Web links
- Entry on the place in the Encyclopedia of the History of Cities and Villages of the Ukrainian SSR (Ukrainian)
- Kossów . 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 ).
