Sokal

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Sokal
Сокаль
Sokal coat of arms
Sokal (Ukraine)
Sokal
Sokal
Basic data
Oblast : Lviv Oblast
Rajon : Sokal district
Height : no information
Area : 8.47 km²
Residents : 21,451 (2004)
Population density : 2,533 inhabitants per km²
Postcodes : 80000-80005
Area code : +380 3257
Geographic location : 50 ° 29 ′  N , 24 ° 17 ′  E Coordinates: 50 ° 29 ′ 0 ″  N , 24 ° 17 ′ 0 ″  E
KOATUU : 4624810100
Administrative structure : 1 city
Mayor : Vadim Kondratyuk
Address: вул. Шептицького 44
80000 м.Сокаль
Statistical information
Sokal (Lviv Oblast)
Sokal
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Sokal ( Ukrainian and Russian Сокаль ) is a district capital in northern Galicia in Ukraine . It is located on the bank of the Western Bug and belongs to the Lviv Oblast . Sokal is located about 80 kilometers north of Lviv (Lemberg).

City center of Sokal

history

Archaeological finds made in the Sokal area date from the Mesolithic , Neolithic and Bronze Ages . Greek and Celtic objects were also found.

Sokal was first mentioned as a city in 1377. In 1424 Sokal received Magdeburg city rights . From 1462 Sokal was a district town of the Polish Bełz Voivodeship . From 1772 to 1918 Sokal belonged to the Austro-Hungarian monarchy as part of the crown land of Galicia and Lodomeria . From 1850 it was the seat of the district authority Sokal , together with the district court established in 1867, it existed until 1918. In the period between the two world wars , Sokal belonged to Poland , was here from 1921 in the Lviv Voivodeship and fell to the East Poland in 1939 through the Soviet occupation Soviet Union . After the invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941, the city was occupied by German troops and incorporated into the Generalgouvernement . After the Second World War , the part to the west of the Bug returned under Polish sovereignty and, after a small change in the demarcation , became part of the Ukrainian SSR on February 15, 1951 - and thus again part of the Soviet Union. Since its disintegration in 1991, Sokal has belonged to the independent Ukraine .

Attractions

Bernardine monastery with the Church of the Virgin Mary from the 17th century (used as a prison since Soviet rule), the Greek Catholic Church of St. Peter and Paul from the 18th century, which was destroyed by the Tatars and rebuilt in 1694 Church ( Ukrainian Orthodox Kiev Patriarchate ) and the St. Nicholas Chapel from the 15th century. There is also the “Mensch. Earth. Universe. ”(Founded 1985). From 1990 to 1995 it was part of the National Museum in Lviv . Since 1995 it has belonged to the Lviv Museum of Religious History.

See also

sons and daughters of the town

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Web links

Commons : Sokal  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Rizzi Zannoni, Woiewodztwo Ruskie, Część Krakowskiego, Sędomirskiego Bełzkiego y z y granicami Węgier, Polski, Które gory Karpackie nakształt łańcucha wyciągnione, od góry Wolska aż do Talabry, wyznaczaią .; 1772
  2. ^ Reichsgesetzblatt of October 8, 1850, No. 383, page 1741
  3. ↑ (urban-type settlement Schwyrka / Жвирка).