Velyki Bereschzi
| Velyki Bereschzi | |||
| Великі Бережці | |||
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| Oblast : | Ternopil Oblast | ||
| Rajon : | Kremenets district | ||
| Height : | no information | ||
| Area : | 38.04 km² | ||
| Residents : | 1,011 (2004) | ||
| Population density : | 27 inhabitants per km² | ||
| Postcodes : | 47020 | ||
| Area code : | +380 3546 | ||
| Geographic location : | 50 ° 6 ' N , 25 ° 35' E | ||
| KOATUU : | 6123481401 | ||
| Administrative structure : | 4 villages | ||
| Mayor : | Shanna Basjuk | ||
| Address: | вул. Л. Українки 34 47020 с. Великі Бережці |
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Velyki Bereschzi ( Ukrainian Великі Бережці , Russian Великие Бережцы Welike Bereschzy , Polish Bereżce ) is a village in Kremenets district , Ternopil Oblast in western Ukraine .
It is located north of the Ikwa River about 10 kilometers west of the Rajons capital Kremenets and 60 kilometers north of the Oblast capital Ternopil . The place forms together with the villages Ikwa ( Іква ), Mali Bereschzi ( Малі Бережці ) and Chotiwka ( Хотівка ) the district council of the same name Velyki Bereschzi.
history
The place was mentioned in writing for the first time in 1545 and initially belonged to the aristocratic republic of Poland-Lithuania (in the Voivodeship of Volhynia ) and from 1795 to 1918 to the Russian Empire , Volhynia governorate .
After the collapse of the Russian Empire during the First World War , the place first came to the West Ukrainian People's Republic and after the Polish-Ukrainian War to the Second Polish Republic (in the Volhynian Voivodeship , Powiat Krzemieniec, Gmina Bereźce). During the Second World War , the village was occupied by the Soviet Union from September 1939 to summer 1941 and then by Germany until 1944 , where it was incorporated into the Galicia district. During the Soviet occupation , the place was briefly the center of the Bereschzi district of the same name from January 1940 until the autumn of the same year . This was renamed Kremenez Rajon after the main town was moved to Kremenets .
After the end of the war, the place was added to the Soviet Union and came there to the Ukrainian SSR . Since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, it has been part of independent Ukraine.
During the Polish period, the place had city rights, but this was revoked with the Soviet occupation, since then the place has only had the status of a village.
Web links
- Bereżce . In: Filip Sulimierski, Władysław Walewski (eds.): Słownik geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego i innych krajów słowiańskich . tape 15 , part 1: Abablewo – Januszowo . Walewskiego, Warsaw 1900, p. 105 (Polish, edu.pl ).