Pnikut

Pnikut

Пнікут

Pnikut

Basic data

Oblast :

Lviv Oblast

Rajon :

Mostyska district

Height :

247 m

Area :

2.038 km²

Residents :

1,101 (2001)

Population density :

540 inhabitants per km²

Postcodes :

81362

Area code :

+380 3234

Geographic location :

49 ° 42 ' N , 23 ° 8' E Coordinates: 49 ° 42 '25 " N , 23 ° 8' 23" E

KOATUU :

4622485201

Administrative structure :

2 villages

Mayor :

81362 с. Пнікут

Statistical information

Pnikut

Pnikut ( Ukrainian Пнікут ; Russian Пникут , Polish Pnikut ) is a village in the western Ukrainian Lviv Oblast with about 1100 inhabitants.

With the village Buchowytschi ( Буховичі ) it belonged to the district council of the same name until 2016 , on December 18, 2016 the place became part of the newly founded municipality Mostyska (Мостиська міська громада / Mostyska miska hromada ).

history

The place was first mentioned in 1366 as Pnekolt . From 1385 until the First World War the village belonged to the bishops of Przemyśl . A Roman Catholic parish was established in 1470.

Politically, the place initially belonged to the Lviv region in the Ruthenian Voivodeship of the aristocratic republic of Poland-Lithuania . In 1627 Tatars were defeated by Poles there.

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 1900 the community had 228 houses with 1268 inhabitants, of which 1265 were Polish-speaking, 3 Ruthenian-speaking, 1230 Roman Catholic, 19 Greek Catholic and 19 Jews.

After the end of the Polish-Ukrainian War in 1919, the community became part of Poland. In 1921 it had 262 houses with 1463 inhabitants, 1453 of them Poles, 10 Jews (nationality), 1444 Roman Catholic, 19 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 2001 the village had about 1100 inhabitants, of which 51.59% Ukrainians and 48.05% Poles.