Starjawa (Staryj Sambir)
| Starjawa | |||
| Старява | |||
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| Oblast : | Lviv Oblast | ||
| Rajon : | Staryj Sambir district | ||
| Height : | 359 m | ||
| Area : | 2.74 km² | ||
| Residents : | 1,403 (2006) | ||
| Population density : | 512 inhabitants per km² | ||
| Postcodes : | 82052 | ||
| Area code : | +380 3238 | ||
| Geographic location : | 49 ° 30 ' N , 22 ° 46' E | ||
| KOATUU : | 4625185301 | ||
| Administrative structure : | 3 villages | ||
| Address: | вул. І. Франка 113 82062 с. Старява |
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Starjawa ( Ukrainian and Russian Старява , Polish Starzawa ) is a village in the western Ukrainian Oblast of Lviv with about 1400 inhabitants (2006).
The village near the Polish border has a border station on the Stryj – Łupków railway line and is the center of the district council of the same name . The territorial road T – 14–01 runs through the village . It is located in the west of the Staryj Sambir district on the banks of the Strvyash ( Стрв'яж ), a 94 km long tributary of the Dniester .
The district center of Staryj Sambir is located 24 km to the southeast and the oblast center of Lviv is about 110 km northeast of the village.
In addition to Staryava, the district council also includes the villages Katyna and Lopuschnyzja .
history
The place was mentioned in writing for the first time in 1374 and was then part of the aristocratic republic of Poland-Lithuania (last under the name Starawa ) in the Ruthenian Voivodeship , from 1772 to 1918 it belonged to the Austrian Crown Land of Galicia , where it was subordinate to the Dobromil District Commission . After the end of the First World War, the place came to Poland and from 1921 was officially in the Lemberg Voivodeship , Powiat Dobromil , Gmina Starzawa . During the Second World War, Lopuschnyzja was incorporated into the Ukrainian SSR by the Soviet Union from September 1939 to June 1941 and then occupied by Germany (incorporated into the Galicia district ) until 1944 .
After the end of the war, the place was again added to the Ukrainian SSR in the Soviet Union and has been part of the independent Ukraine since 1991.
Web links
- Starzawa . In: Filip Sulimierski, Władysław Walewski (eds.): Słownik geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego i innych krajów słowiańskich . tape 11 : Sochaczew – Szlubowska Wola . Walewskiego, Warsaw 1890, p. 278 (Polish, edu.pl ).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Staryava on the official website of the Verkhovna Rada , last accessed on January 14, 2015