Vytvytsia

Vytvytsia

Vytvytsia

Village in Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, Ukraine

Vytvytsia (Ukrainian: Витвиця; Polish: Witwica) is a village in Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, Ukraine, in Kalush Raion. It is the administrative centre of Vytvytsia rural hromada. Its population is 1,255 (as of 2023).[1]

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History

Vytvytsia was first mentioned in 1397, in a document by Władysław II Jagiełło.[2] In 1939 the village had 1,690 residents (1,640 Ukrainians, 20 Polish people, 20 Jews, and 10 Latynnyky), according to Volodymyr Kubijovyč.[3]

There are two churches in the town; the wooden Church of Saint Ivan the Theologian (Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church)[4] and the brick Church of Apostle Andrew the First-Called (Orthodox Church of Ukraine).[5]

Notable residents

References

  1. [1]
    "Витвицька громада" [Vytvytsia hromada]. gromada.info (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 27 July 2023.
  2. [2]
    "70. Владислав, король польський, дарує своєму слузі Михайлові Волошину село Гошів" [70. Władysław, King of Poland, grants to his servant Mykhailo Voloshyn the village of Hoshiv]. Izbornyk (in Ukrainian). Archived from the original on 17 November 2015. Retrieved 27 July 2023.
  3. [3]
    Kubijovyč, Volodymyr (1983). Етнічні групи південнозахідньої України (Галичини) на 1.1.1939 [Ethnic groups of the South-Western Ukraine (Halyčyna - Galicia) 1.1.1939] (in Ukrainian). Wiesbaden: Harrasowitz. p. 23. ISBN 3-447-02376-7.
  4. [4]
    "Витвиця" [Vytvytsia]. Wooden Churches of Western Ukraine (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 27 July 2023.
  5. [5]
    "Церква святого апостола Андрія первозванного" [Church of Apostle Andrew the First-Called]. Orthodox in Prykarpattia (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 27 July 2023.
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