Lybochora (Turka)
| Lybochora | |||
| Либохора | |||
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| Oblast : | Lviv Oblast | ||
| Rajon : | Turka district | ||
| Height : | 694 m | ||
| Area : | 5.7 km² | ||
| Residents : | 2,302 (2001) | ||
| Population density : | 404 inhabitants per km² | ||
| Postcodes : | 82555 | ||
| Area code : | +380 3269 | ||
| Geographic location : | 48 ° 55 ' N , 22 ° 56' E | ||
| KOATUU : | 4625584901 | ||
| Administrative structure : | 1 village | ||
| Address: | 82555 с. Либохора | ||
| Website : | City council website | ||
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Lybochora ( Ukrainian Либохора ; Russian Либохора Libochora , Polish Libuchora ) is a village in the Forest Carpathians in the south of the Ukrainian Lviv Oblast with about 2300 inhabitants (2001).
In the village is the wooden church of the Cathedral of the Holy Virgin of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church , built in 1798 . The three-tier church building in neo-Ukrainian style was thoroughly rebuilt in 1914 and is now an architectural monument of national importance.
Geographical location
The village is located in the southwest of the Turka Rajon near the border with Poland and the Transcarpathian Oblast and not far north of the 1309 m high mountain Velykyj Verkh ( Великий Верх ). Lybochora is located at an altitude of 694 m in the valley of the Lybochora ( Либохора ), a 15 km long left tributary of the Stryj , about 40 km south of the district center of Turka and about 165 km southwest of the oblast center of Lviv . Lybochora is the only village in the 5.7 km² district council of the same name .
history
The 1553 under the name Oleksanka ( Олексанка ) in the province of Ruthenia nobility Republic of Poland-Lithuania village founded came to the first partition of Poland in 1772 to Crown land Galicia and Lodomeria of the Habsburg Empire and was there until the end of the First World War , in the district Turka of Danube Monarchy. After the First World War, as a result of the collapse of Austria-Hungary in November 1918, the village came briefly to the West Ukrainian People's Republic and after the end of the Polish-Ukrainian War in 1919 again to Poland , where it was officially part of the Stanislau Voivodeship from 1921 and from 1931 was in the Lviv Voivodeship . Due to the Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact , the village was annexed by the Soviet Union at the end of September 1939 and incorporated into the Ujesd Turka of the Drogobytsch Oblast within the Ukrainian SSR . At the beginning of the German-Soviet War , the village was occupied by the German Reich in June 1941 and incorporated into the Galicia District of the Generalgouvernement . The village remained there until it was reconquered by the Red Army as part of the Lviv-Sandomierz operation in September 1944, when it fell again to the Soviet Union. After its disintegration , the village became part of the now independent Ukraine in 1991. In 1921 there were 2082 people in the village and in the 1960s the village had more than 2500 residents.
Web links
- Libuchora . In: Filip Sulimierski, Władysław Walewski (eds.): Słownik geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego i innych krajów słowiańskich . tape 5 : Kutowa Wola – Malczyce . Walewskiego, Warsaw 1884, p. 204 (Polish, edu.pl ).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Local website on the official website of the Verkhovna Rada ; accessed on May 7, 2020 (Ukrainian)
- ↑ Либохора - Церква Собору Пр. Богородиці on decerkva.org.ua ; accessed on May 7, 2020 (Ukrainian)
- ↑ a b c Entry on Lybochora in the Encyclopedia of Modern Ukraine ; accessed on May 7, 2020 (Ukrainian)
- ^ Website of the district council on the official website of the Verkhovna Rada; accessed on May 7, 2020 (Ukrainian)
- ↑ history Lybochora in the history of the towns and villages of the Ukrainian SSR ; accessed on May 7, 2020 (Ukrainian)