Starunja
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| Старуня | |||
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| Oblast : | Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast | ||
| Rajon : | Bohorodchany Raion | ||
| Height : | 386 m | ||
| Area : | 14 km² | ||
| Residents : | 1,954 (2001) | ||
| Population density : | 140 inhabitants per km² | ||
| Postcodes : | 77763 | ||
| Area code : | +380 3475 | ||
| Geographic location : | 48 ° 43 ' N , 24 ° 29' E | ||
| KOATUU : | 2620488801 | ||
| Administrative structure : | 1 village | ||
| Address: | вул. Миру 90 77763 с. Старуня |
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Starunja (Ukrainian and Russian Старуня ; Polish Starunia ) is a village in the Ukrainian Oblast Ivano-Frankivsk in western Ukraine with about 1900 inhabitants.
The village is located in the south of the historical Galicia on the river Lukowez (Луковець), about 11 kilometers south of the district center Bohorodchany and 28 kilometers southwest of the Oblast center Ivano-Frankivsk . Together with the village of Lastiwzi (Ластівці) it forms the district council of the same name.
The place was mentioned in writing for the first time in 1378, was initially in the aristocratic republic of Poland-Lithuania , Ruthenian Voivodeship and came in 1772 as Staruni , later Starunia, to the then Austrian crown land of Galicia (until 1918 in the Nadwórna district ).
After the end of the First World War he came to Poland , was here from 1921 as Starunia in the Stanislau Voivodeship , Powiat Nadwórna as the main town of Gmina Starunia and was only occupied by the Soviet Union and from 1941 to 1944 by Germany and the district during World War II Galicia attached. After being reconquered by Soviet troops in 1944, it came back to the Soviet Union in 1945 and was incorporated into the Ukrainian SSR , since 1991 the place has been part of today's Ukraine.
At the beginning of the 20th century, several ozokerite deposits were discovered in the village and mining began. In 1929 an almost completely preserved skeleton of a woolly rhinoceros was discovered, and a total of four rhinos and a mammoth were found in the local area.
Web links
- Entry on the place in the Encyclopedia of the History of Cities and Villages of the Ukrainian SSR (Ukrainian)
- Starunia . In: Filip Sulimierski, Władysław Walewski (eds.): Słownik geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego i innych krajów słowiańskich . tape 11 : Sochaczew – Szlubowska Wola . Walewskiego, Warsaw 1890, p. 267 (Polish, edu.pl ).
