Turka

Turka

Турка

Turka

Basic data

Oblast :

Lviv Oblast

Rajon :

Turka district

Height :

565 m

Area :

3.00 km²

Residents :

7,440 (2004)

Population density :

2,480 inhabitants per km²

Postcodes :

82500

Area code :

+380 3269

Geographic location :

49 ° 9 ' N , 23 ° 2' E Coordinates: 49 ° 9 '18 " N , 23 ° 1' 49" E

KOATUU :

4625510100

Administrative structure :

1 city

Mayor :

Henadij Brytsch

Address:

пл. Ринок 26
82500 м. Турка

Statistical information

Turka

Turka (Ukrainian and Russian Турка ; Polish also Turka nad Stryjem ) is a rajon capital in western Ukraine about 103 kilometers southwest of the oblast capital Lviv on the Jablunka river near its confluence with the Stryj in the Ukrainian Forest Carpathians .

Panoramic view of the city

The place was mentioned in writing for the first time in 1431 and received Magdeburg city rights in 1730 . The city belonged to the Austrian Galicia until 1918 , from 1854 it was the seat of the district administration Turka , together with the seat of a district court from 1867 both existed until 1918. After the end of the First World War, the place came to Poland and was here from 1931 in the Lviv Voivodeship as the seat of the Turka Powiat, previously from 1921 it was part of the Stanislau Voivodeship . After the beginning of the Second World War, Turka was briefly occupied by Germany and from the end of September 1939 by the Soviet Union . This initially made the place the main town of Ujesd Turka as part of the Drogobytsch Oblast , from January 1940 the town was then the seat of the Turka Rajon. In June 1941, after the start of the German-Soviet War , the city came to Germany , was incorporated into the Galicia district and then remained here until it was reconquered by the Red Army in late summer 1944.

After the end of the war, the city was added to the Soviet Union , where the city became part of the Ukrainian SSR and has been part of today's Ukraine since 1991.

Personalities

Ignacy Leonard Petelenz (1850–1911), Polish high school teacher and politician

Web links

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

Individual evidence

^ Reichsgesetzblatt of April 24, 1854, No. 111, page 401

[1] Reichsgesetzblatt of April 24, 1854, No. 111, page 401