Dovzhanka, Ternopil Oblast

Rural locality in Ternopil Oblast, Ukraine
Place in Ternopil Oblast, Ukraine
Dovzhanka
Довжанка
49°33′55″N 25°28′15″E / 49.56528°N 25.47083°E / 49.56528; 25.47083
Country Ukraine
OblastTernopil Oblast
RaionTernopil Raion
HromadaPidhorodne rural hromada
Time zoneUTC+2 (EET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+3 (EEST)
Postal code
47708

Dovzhanka (Ukrainian: Довжанка) is a village in Pidhorodne rural hromada, Ternopil Raion, Ternopil Oblast, Ukraine.[1]

History

The first written mention of the village was in 1464.[2]

Religion

  • St. John the Baptist church (1795, brick, restored in 1996).

Notable residents

  • 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

  1. ^ "Підгороднянська територіальна громада". Децентралізація.
  2. ^ 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

  • (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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