Mokrotyn
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| Мокротин | |||
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| Oblast : | Lviv Oblast | ||
| Rajon : | Zhovkva district | ||
| Height : | no information | ||
| Area : | 4.07 km² | ||
| Residents : | 812 (2001) | ||
| Population density : | 200 inhabitants per km² | ||
| Postcodes : | 80355 | ||
| Area code : | +380 3252 | ||
| Geographic location : | 50 ° 1 ' N , 23 ° 54' E | ||
| KOATUU : | 4622785901 | ||
| Administrative structure : | 5 villages | ||
| Mayor : | Ivan Chlibyshyn | ||
| Address: | 80355 с. Мокротин | ||
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Mokrotyn ( Ukrainian Мокротин ; Russian Мокротин Mokrotin , Polish Mokrotyn , formerly Mokrocin , Mokroczyn ) is a village in the western Ukrainian Lviv Oblast with about 800 inhabitants.
With the villages Kopanka ( Копанка ) Polyany ( Поляни ) Terniw ( Тернів ) and Widrodschennja it belongs to the same district municipality .
history
The place was first mentioned in 1399 as Mokroczyn , later as Macrothyn (1440), Mocrothyn (1440), Mokrothin (1469) and so on. The name is derived from the Ukrainian word possessive мокрий (Polish mokry , German wet ).
It initially belonged to the Lviv region in the Ruthenian Voivodeship of the aristocratic republic of Poland-Lithuania . During the first partition of Poland in 1772 the village became part of the new Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria of the Habsburg Empire (from 1804).
In 1786 in the course of the Josephine colonization , German colonists of Catholic denomination were settled on the eastern plot of the village. The former colony became an independent municipality, simply called Mokrotyn Colony , and today it is Widrodzhennya .
In 1900 the municipality of Mokrotyn had 280 houses with 1763 inhabitants, 1701 of them Ruthenian-speaking, 62 Polish-speaking, 1701 Greek-Catholic, 42 Roman-Catholic, 14 Jews, 6 of other faiths.
After the end of the Polish-Ukrainian War in 1919, the community became part of Poland. In 1921 the municipality of Mokrotyn had 356 houses with 2109 inhabitants, of which 2005 were Ruthenians, 91 Poles, 13 Jews (nationality), 2015 Greek-Catholic, 74 Roman-Catholic, 20 Jews (religion).
In the Second World War , the place belonged first to the Soviet Union and from 1941 to the General Government , from 1945 back to the Soviet Union, now part of the Ukraine .
In April and May 1944, a total of 87 Poles were killed by OUN-UPA in Mokrotyn.
Attractions
- Orthodox Church (built 1890);
View of the village
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Web links
- Mokrotyn . In: Filip Sulimierski, Władysław Walewski (eds.): Słownik geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego i innych krajów słowiańskich . tape 6 : Malczyce – Netreba . Walewskiego, Warsaw 1885, p. 632 (Polish, edu.pl ).
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Anna Czapla: Nazwy miejscowości historycznej ziemi lwowskiej [The names of the localities of the historical Lviv country] . Towarzystwo Naukowe Katolickiego Uniwersytetu Lubelskiego Jana Pawła II, Lublin 2011, ISBN 978-83-7306-542-0 , p. 131 (Polish).
- ↑ Ludwig Patryn (Ed.): Community encyclopedia of the kingdoms and countries represented in the Reichsrat, edited on the basis of the results of the census of December 31, 1900, XII. Galicia . Vienna 1907.
- ↑ Główny Urząd Statystyczny: Skorowidz miejscowości Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej. Tom XIII. Województwo lwowskie . Warszawa 1924 (Polish, online [PDF]).
- ↑ Grzegorz Rąkowski: Ukraińskie Karpaty i Podkarpacie, część zachodnia. Przewodnik krajoznawczo-historyczny . Oficyna Wydawnicza "Rewasz", Pruszków 2013, ISBN 978-83-62460-31-1 , p. 132 (Polish).