Velyzk
| Velyzk | |||
| Велицьк | |||
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| Oblast : | Volyn Oblast | ||
| Rajon : | Kovel district | ||
| Height : | 177 m | ||
| Area : | 1.956 km² | ||
| Residents : | 688 (2001) | ||
| Population density : | 352 inhabitants per km² | ||
| Postcodes : | 45081 | ||
| Area code : | +380 3352 | ||
| Geographic location : | 51 ° 8 ' N , 25 ° 12' E | ||
| KOATUU : | 0722181201 | ||
| Administrative structure : | 12 villages | ||
| Address: | 45081 с. Велицьк | ||
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Welyzk (Ukrainian Велицьк ; Russian Велицьк / Velizk , Polish Wielick ) is a village in western Ukraine in Volyn Oblast , Kovel district, about 37 kilometers southeast of the district capital Kovel and 42 kilometers north of the oblast capital Lutsk .
On November 10, 2015, the village became the center of the newly established rural community Welyzk (Велицька сільська громада / Welyzka silska hromada ). At that includes also the 11 villages Arsenowytschi (Арсеновичі) Kaschiwka (Кашівка) Krywlyn (Кривлин) Kuchari (Кухарі) Melnyzja (Мельниця) Myryn (Мирин) Pidlissy (Підліси) Pidrischschja (Підріжжя) Rudka- Myrynska (Рудка-Миринська), Silze (Сільце) and Uhly (Угли), until then the village together with the village of Kuchari formed the district council of the same name.
history
The place is mentioned in writing for the first time in 1488 and until 1793 belonged to the aristocratic republic of Poland-Lithuania in the Volhynia Voivodeship . With the partitions of Poland , the place fell to the Russian Empire and was in the Volhynia governorate until the end of the First World War .
After the First World War, the place became part of Poland (in the Voivodeship of Volhynia , Powiat Kowel , Gmina Wielick ), during the Second World War it was occupied by the Soviet Union between 1939 and 1941 . After the attack on the Soviet Union in June 1941, it was occupied by Germany until 1944 , this divided the place into the Reichskommissariat Ukraine in the general district Brest-Litowsk / Volhynien-Podolia , district Kowel .
After the war, the place was added to the Soviet Union. There the village came to the Ukrainian SSR and since 1991 it has been part of today's Ukraine.
Web links
- Entry on the place in the Encyclopedia of the History of Cities and Villages of the Ukrainian SSR (Ukrainian)
- Wielick . In: Filip Sulimierski, Władysław Walewski (eds.): Słownik geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego i innych krajów słowiańskich . tape 13 : Warmbrun – Worowo . Walewskiego, Warsaw 1893, p. 319 (Polish, edu.pl ).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Відповідно до пункту 2 статті 8 Закону України "Про добровільне об'єднання територіальних громад" у Волинській області у зв'язку з припиненням повноважень рад , що об'єдналися у Велицьку сільську територіальну громаду з 10 листопада 2015
- ↑ Rizzi Zannoni, Woiewództwa Lubelskie y Rawskie. Mazowsze y Podlasie Południowe. Część Pułnocna Woiewództw Bełzkiego, Ruskiego y Sendomirskiego, część zachodnia Województwo (!) Wolyńskiego y Brzeskiego - Litewskiego .; 1772
