Markopil
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| Маркопіль | |||
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| Oblast : | Lviv Oblast | ||
| Rajon : | Brody Raion | ||
| Height : | 341 m | ||
| Area : | 1.21 km² | ||
| Residents : | 703 (2001) | ||
| Population density : | 581 inhabitants per km² | ||
| Postcodes : | 80674 | ||
| Area code : | +380 3266 | ||
| Geographic location : | 49 ° 52 ' N , 25 ° 17' E | ||
| KOATUU : | 4620380801 | ||
| Administrative structure : | 2 villages | ||
| Address: | 80674 с. Маркопіль | ||
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Markopil (Ukrainian Маркопіль ; Russian Маркополь / Markopol , Polish Markopol ) is a village in the Ukrainian Lviv Oblast in western Ukraine with about 700 inhabitants.
The village is located in the west of the historical landscape of Galicia in Brody Raion on the Hrabarka River ( Грабарка ), about 27 kilometers southeast of the Brody Rajon center and 90 kilometers east of the Lviv Oblast center.
Together with the village Schyschkiwzi ( Шишківці ) it forms the district municipality Markopil .
The place was founded in 1628 by Jakob Sobieski (the place was given this name in honor of his son Marko), and at the same time was granted market rights, was initially in the aristocratic republic of Poland-Lithuania , Ruthenian Voivodeship , and came in 1772 as Markopol to the then Austrian crown land of Galicia (until 1911 with the status of a market in the Brody district and then in the Zborów district ).
After the end of the First World War, the place became part of Poland , was incorporated into the Lemberg , Powiat Brody , Gmina Pieniaki voivodeship from 1921 as Markopol and was only occupied by the Soviet Union during World War II and by Germany from 1941 to 1944 and the Galicia district 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 Under Soviet rule, the market status was revoked in 1939 and downgraded to a village.
Web links
- Location information (Ukrainian)
- Markopoly . In: Filip Sulimierski, Władysław Walewski (eds.): Słownik geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego i innych krajów słowiańskich . tape 6 : Malczyce – Netreba . Walewskiego, Warsaw 1885, p. 124 (Polish, edu.pl ).
