Meschyritsch (Ostroh)
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| Oblast : | Rivne Oblast | ||
| Rajon : | Ostroh district | ||
| Height : | 200 m | ||
| Area : | 2.398 km² | ||
| Residents : | 1,490 (2001) | ||
| Population density : | 621 inhabitants per km² | ||
| Postcodes : | 35808 | ||
| Area code : | +380 3654 | ||
| Geographic location : | 50 ° 18 ' N , 26 ° 29' E | ||
| KOATUU : | 5624284201 | ||
| Administrative structure : | 3 villages | ||
| Address: | вул. Вигін 1 35808 с. Межиріч |
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Meschyritsch ( Ukrainian Межиріч ; Russian Межирич Meschiritsch , Polish Międzyrzecz Ostrogski ) is a village in the south of the Ukrainian Rivne Oblast with about 1100 inhabitants (2001). The listed Meschyritsch Monastery from the 16th to 17th centuries is located in the village.
geography
Meschyritsch is the administrative center of the 50.98 km² district council of the same name in the Ostroh district , which also includes the villages of Prykordonne ( Прикордонне ) with about 80 inhabitants and Slobidka ( Слобідка ) with about 450 inhabitants.
The village is located on the banks of the Wilija , a 77 km long tributary of the Horyn , and on the regional road P-26 5 km southwest of the district center Ostroh and about 50 km southeast of the Oblast capital Rivne .
history
When the village was founded in 1396 it was part of the aristocratic republic of Poland-Lithuania ( Voivodeship Volhynia ). After the 3rd partition of Poland , the place came in 1795 in the Volhynian governorate of the Russian Empire . After the end of the First World War , the place came to the Second Polish Republic ( Volhynian Voivodeship ). After the beginning of the Second World War , the area was first occupied by Soviet and from 1941 by German troops and after the war ended in 1945 it became part of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic of the USSR. After Ukraine gained independence in 1991, Meshyrich became part of it.
Web links
- Międzyrzecz Ostrogski . In: Filip Sulimierski, Władysław Walewski (eds.): Słownik geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego i innych krajów słowiańskich . tape 6 : Malczyce – Netreba . Walewskiego, Warsaw 1885, p. 378 (Polish, edu.pl ).
Individual evidence
- ^ Website of the village on the website of the Verkhovna Rada ; accessed on September 14, 2016
- ^ Website of the district council on the website of the Verkhovna Rada ; accessed on September 14, 2016