Medwyn (Bohuslaw)
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| Медвин | |||
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| Oblast : | Kiev Oblast | ||
| Rajon : | Bohuslaw District | ||
| Height : | 250 m | ||
| Area : | Information is missing | ||
| Residents : | 3,749 (2004) | ||
| Postcodes : | 09751 | ||
| Area code : | +380 04561 | ||
| Geographic location : | 49 ° 23 ' N , 30 ° 47' E | ||
| KOATUU : | 3220683201 | ||
| Administrative structure : | 2 villages | ||
| Address: | вул. Шевченка 1 09751 село Медвин |
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Medwyn ( Ukrainian Медвин ; Russian Медвин Medwin , Polish Medwin ) is a village in the south of the Ukrainian Oblast of Kiev with about 3700 inhabitants (2004).
Medwyn is the administrative center of the 11.5 km² district council of the same name in the south of Bohuslaw Rajon , to which the village of Dibriwka ( Дібрівка ⊙ ) with about 200 inhabitants belongs.
The village is located near the border with Cherkassy Oblast on the bank of the Khorobra ( Хоробра ), a 29 km long tributary of the Ros and on the regional road P-04 23 km south of the district center Bohuslav and 145 km south of Kiev .
history
Already in the 10th – 13th In the 19th century there was a Slavic settlement on the site, which was completely destroyed during the Mongol invasion . In 1362 the village fell to the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and in 1569 it came under Polish rule. During the Nalywajko uprising under Severyn Nalywajko , a battle broke out in 1596 between the rebellious Cossacks and the troops of the Polish feudal lords near Medwyn. In 1620 and 1655 the settlement received Magdeburg city rights . In the course of the Khmelnyzkyj uprising under Bohdan Khmelnyzkyj , the city was temporarily liberated from Polish rule between 1648 and 1656 and came to the Russian Empire in 1793 after the second partition of Poland . In 1919 the place became part of the Ukrainian SSR . During the Second World War , the village was occupied by the Wehrmacht between July 27, 1941 and January 27, 1944 . After the liberation by the Red Army , the village came back to the Soviet Union . After its disintegration , the village has belonged to the independent Ukraine since 1991.
Web links
- Medwin . In: Filip Sulimierski, Władysław Walewski (eds.): Słownik geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego i innych krajów słowiańskich . tape 6 : Malczyce – Netreba . Walewskiego, Warsaw 1885, p. 236 (Polish, edu.pl ).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Medwyn on the official website of the Verkhovna Rada ; accessed on August 19, 2017 (Ukrainian)
- ↑ Cities and Villages in Ukraine - Medvyn on imsu-kyiv.com ; accessed on August 19, 2017 (Ukrainian)