Dovzhanka, Ternopil Oblast
Dovzhanka
Довжанка | |
|---|---|
  Dovzhanka Location in Ternopil Oblast | |
| Coordinates: 49°33′55″N 25°28′15″E / 49.56528°N 25.47083°E | |
| Country |  Ukraine |
| Oblast | Ternopil Oblast |
| Raion | Ternopil Raion |
| Hromada | Pidhorodnie rural hromada |
| Time zone | UTC 2 (EET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC 3 (EEST) |
| Postal code | 47708 |
Dovzhanka (Ukrainian: Довжанка) is a village in Pidhorodnie rural hromada, Ternopil Raion, Ternopil Oblast, Ukraine.[1]
History
[edit]The first written mention of the village was in 1464.[2]
Religion
[edit]- St. John the Baptist church (1795, brick, restored in 1996).
Notable residents
[edit]- Sofia Okunevska (1865–1926), Ukrainian physician, educator, feminist, and scholar. She the first female Doctor of Medicine and the first female physician in Austria-Hungary.
In the village, Petro Bilynskyi (1893–1896) and Ostap Nyzhankivskyi (1896–1897) pastored.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ "Підгороднянська територіальна громада". Децентралізація.
- ^ a b (in Ukrainian) Уніят В.-Карпович, Довжанка // Ternopil region. History of cities and villages: in 3 v. / Ternopil: "Terno-graph", 2014, V. 3: М—Ш, S. 370—371. — ISBN 978-966-457-246-7.
Sources
[edit]- (in Ukrainian) Уніят В., Довжанка // Ternopil Encyclopedic Dictionary: in 4 v. / editorial board: H. Yavorskyi and other, Ternopil: "Zbruch", 2004, V. 1: А—Й, S. 516. — ISBN 966-528-197-6.
- "Dołżanka". Geographical Dictionary of the Kingdom of Poland (in Polish). 2. Warszawa: Kasa im. Józefa Mianowskiego. 1881. p. 109—110.
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