Varyash (Ukraine)
| Varyash | |||
| Варяж | |||
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| Oblast : | Lviv Oblast | ||
| Rajon : | Sokal district | ||
| Height : | 204 m | ||
| Area : | 2.17 km² | ||
| Residents : | 888 (2004) | ||
| Population density : | 409 inhabitants per km² | ||
| Postcodes : | 80014 | ||
| Area code : | +380 3257 | ||
| Geographic location : | 50 ° 31 ' N , 24 ° 6' E | ||
| KOATUU : | 4624883901 | ||
| Administrative structure : | 4 villages | ||
| Address: | 80014 с. Варяж | ||
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Warjasch (Ukrainian and Russian Варяж - 1951 to 1989 Новоукраїнка Nowoukrajinka , Polish Waręż ) is a village in western Ukraine with about 900 inhabitants. It is located on the border with Poland, about 75 kilometers north of the oblast capital Lviv and 14 kilometers west of the district capital Sokal .
The district council also includes the villages Leschkiw ( Лешків ), Lubniwka ( Лубнівка ) and Russyn ( Русин ). To the west of the village is the border crossing to Poland to the village of Uśmierz .
history
The village was mentioned in writing for the first time in 1419 and received Magdeburg city charter in 1538 . At that time it was initially in the Bełz Voivodeship as part of the aristocratic republic of Poland . The city belonged to the Austrian Galicia from 1772 to 1918 and after the end of the First World War came the place to Poland (in the voivodeship Lemberg , Powiat Sokal, Gmina Waręż), was in the Second World War from September 1939 to summer 1941 by the Soviet Union , then occupied by Germany until 1944 and returned to Poland after the end of the war.
In the course of the Polish-Soviet exchange of territory in 1951, the city and the surrounding area came to the Soviet Union because of their large coal deposits , there it became part of the Ukrainian SSR , lost its city status, was renamed Nowoukrajinka / Nowoukrainka (until 1989) and has been part of the present-day Ukraine.
The ruins of the Church of St. Mark, which was built at the end of the 17th century, are particularly worth seeing in the village.
Web links
- Waręż . In: Filip Sulimierski, Władysław Walewski (eds.): Słownik geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego i innych krajów słowiańskich . tape 12 : Szlurpkiszki – Warłynka . Walewskiego, Warsaw 1892, p. 950 (Polish, edu.pl ).
