Wowkiw (Pustomyty)
| Wowkiw | |||
| Вовків | |||
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| Oblast : | Lviv Oblast | ||
| Rajon : | Pustomyty Raion | ||
| Height : | 314 m | ||
| Area : | 1.79 km² | ||
| Residents : | 291 (2001) | ||
| Population density : | 163 inhabitants per km² | ||
| Postcodes : | 81139 | ||
| Area code : | +380 3230 | ||
| Geographic location : | 49 ° 43 ' N , 24 ° 4' E | ||
| KOATUU : | 4623681801 | ||
| Administrative structure : | 6 villages | ||
| Address: | 81139 с. Вовків | ||
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Wowkiw ( Ukrainian Вовків ; Russian Волков Wolkow , Polish Wołków ) is a village in the western Ukrainian Lviv Oblast with about 290 inhabitants.
With 5 other villages it belonged to the district council of the same name .
history
The place was mentioned in a document in 1469 as Wolkowo , and then later as Volkow (1484, 1497), Wolkow (1578) and so on. The name is derived either from the first name of the alleged original owner Wołek or from the Ukrainian word волк ( wolf ).
The village initially belonged to the aristocratic republic of Poland-Lithuania , Ruthenian Voivodeship , Lviv country . In 1563 a Roman Catholic parish was established. The Tatars destroyed the local wooden churches twice (1621, 1673).
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 Wołków had 124 houses with 685 inhabitants, 674 of them Polish-speaking, 11 Ruthenian-speaking, 499 Roman Catholic, 153 Greek Catholic, 29 Jews, 4 of other faiths.
After the end of the Polish-Ukrainian War in 1919, the community became part of Poland. In 1921 it had 139 houses with 734 inhabitants, 640 Poles, 93 Ruthenians, 1 Jew, 540 Roman Catholic, 168 Greek Catholic, 26 Jews (religion).
During the Second World War it belonged first to the Soviet Union and from 1941 to the General Government, from 1945 back to the Soviet Union, now part of the Ukraine . The Poles were resettled to Poland in 1946 .
Attractions
- Former Roman Catholic Church, built in 1924 and 1929;
sons and daughters of the town
- Kornylo Ustyjanowytsch (1839–1903), Ukrainian painter, illustrator, caricaturist, writer, poet, playwright, essayist and humorist
Web links
- Wołków (1) . In: Filip Sulimierski, Władysław Walewski (eds.): Słownik geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego i innych krajów słowiańskich . tape 13 : Warmbrun – Worowo . Walewskiego, Warsaw 1893, p. 871 (Polish, edu.pl ).
Individual evidence
- ^ 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. 207 (Polish).
- ↑ Grzegorz Rąkowski: Przewodnik po Ukrainie Zachodniej. Część III. Ziemia Lwowska . Oficyna Wydawnicza "Rewasz", Pruszków 2007, ISBN 978-83-8918866-3 , p. 406-407 (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]).