Verkhnya Bilka
| Verkhnya Bilka | |||
| Верхня Білка | |||
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| Oblast : | Lviv Oblast | ||
| Rajon : | Pustomyty Raion | ||
| Height : | 230 m | ||
| Area : | 2.27 km² | ||
| Residents : | 1,512 (2001) | ||
| Population density : | 666 inhabitants per km² | ||
| Postcodes : | 81141 | ||
| Area code : | +380 3230 | ||
| Geographic location : | 49 ° 49 ' N , 24 ° 18' E | ||
| KOATUU : | 4623680801 | ||
| Administrative structure : | 3 villages | ||
| Address: | 81141 с. Верхня Білка | ||
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Verkhnya Bilka ( Ukrainian Верхня Білка ; Russian Верхняя Белка Werchnjaja Belka , Polish Biłka Szlachecka ) is a village in the western Ukrainian Lviv Oblast with about 2040 inhabitants.
With the villages Nyschnja Bilka and Suchoritschtschja ( Сухоріччя ) it belongs to the district council of the same name .
history
The place was first mentioned in documents in 1400, and then later as Belka (1405), Byelka (1455), Bielka villa (1578) and so on. The name is derived from the Ukrainian word for the color white; the adjective szlachecki (noble) was used to distinguish it from the neighboring Nyschnja Bilka , in Polish Biłka Królewska ( royal ).
The place first belonged to the noble family Włodek , who established a Roman Catholic parish in 1441, later Ziemicki , Głębocki , Izdebski and Branicki , Potocki (2nd half of the 18th century), Uruski , Sapieha (2nd half of the 18th century until 1939).
Politically, the village initially belonged to the aristocratic republic of Poland-Lithuania , Ruthenian Voivodeship , Lviv country . During the first partition of Poland in 1772 the village became part of the new Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria of the Habsburg Empire (from 1804).
In 1900 the municipality of Biłka Szlachecka had 250 houses with 1549 inhabitants, 1467 of them Polish-speaking, 82 Ruthenian-speaking, 1434 Roman Catholic, 82 Greek Catholic, 33 Jews.
On November 24, 1918 in the Polish-Ukrainian War , the village was attacked by Ukrainians. The community then came to Poland. A battle took place there on August 18, 1920 during the Polish-Soviet War . In 1921 it had 269 houses with 1704 inhabitants, of which 1681 Poles, 17 Ruthenians, 6 Jews (nationality), 1604 Roman Catholics, 39 Greek Catholics, 61 Jews (religion).
During the Second World War , the village first belonged to the Soviet Union and from 1941 to the Generalgouvernement. In 1944 it was one of the strongest self-defense groups against OUN - UPA in the Lviv area. On July 23, 1945, 80 Polish AK soldiers fought with the Germans before the arrival of the Soviets. From 1945 the village belonged again to the Soviet Union, today to Ukraine . The Poles were resettled to Poland in April and May 1945.
Attractions
- Former Roman Catholic Church, built in 1546, enlarged in 1868.
Personalities
- Seweryn Uruski (* 1817; † 1890) Polish aristocratic representative and Russian Privy Councilor;
- Eustachy Sapieha (* 1881, † 1963), conservative politician, Polish foreign minister and member of the Sejm;
Web links
- Biłka 2.) szlachecka . In: Filip Sulimierski, Władysław Walewski (eds.): Słownik geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego i innych krajów słowiańskich . tape 1 : Aa-Dereneczna . Sulimierskiego and Walewskiego, Warsaw 1880, p. 229 (Polish, edu.pl ).
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e Grzegorz Rąkowski: Przewodnik po Ukrainie Zachodniej. Część III. Ziemia Lwowska . Oficyna Wydawnicza "Rewasz", Pruszków 2007, ISBN 978-83-8918866-3 , p. 237-239 (Polish).
- ^ Anna Czapla: Nazwy miejscowości historycznej ziemi lwowskiej [The names of the localities of the historical Lviv country] . Towarzystwo Naukowe Katolickiego Uniwersytetu Lubelskiego Jana Pawła II, Lublin 2011, ISBN 978-83-7306-542-0 , p. 10, 37 (Polish).
- ↑ Ludwig Patryn (Ed.): Community encyclopedia of the kingdoms and countries represented in the Reichsrat, edited on the basis of the results of the census of December 31, 1900, XII. Galicia . Vienna 1907.
- ↑ Główny Urząd Statystyczny: Skorowidz miejscowości Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej. Tom XIII. Województwo lwowskie . Warszawa 1924 (Polish, online [PDF]).