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unusual facts about Western Ukraine


Ihor Paliy

Igor Palii was born in 1963 in Drohobych, a regional center of Western Ukraine, in a family of musicians and child care workers.


Armenians in Poland

At the beginning of the 20th century, there were about 6,000 Armenians in Poland living mostly in Eastern Galicia (today Western Ukraine), with centers in Lwów (Lviv), Stanisławów (Ivano-Frankivsk), Brzeżany (Berezhany), Kuty, Łysiec (Lysets), Horodenka, Tłumacz (Tlumach) and Śniatyn (Sniatyn).


see also

Archdiocese of Lviv

Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Lviv, a metropolitan archdiocese of the Latin rite of the Catholic Church in western Ukraine

Costoboci

A bronze hand dedicated to Jupiter Dolichenus by a soldier from a cohort stationed in Dacia was found at Myszków in Western Ukraine.

Dubove

Dubove, Ukraine, a village in Zakarpattia Oblast of western Ukraine

Hryhoriy Nestor

Nestor reportedly had original old passports from the Austrian-Hungarian Empire and the Soviet Union, major powers who occupied Western Ukraine since 1891; however, he never provided copies to Guinness, the Gerontology Research Group or even Ukrainian scientists.

Kosov

: 9901, a city located in the Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, in western Ukraine.

Massacre of Broniki

The Massacre of Broniki referred to the killing of members of the Wehrmacht by soldiers of the Red Army, on 1 July 1941 near the place Broniki in western Ukraine.

Polish–Soviet border agreement of August 1945

However, after the liberation of Western Ukraine and Belarus in summer of 1944, a Polish committee formed in the town of Sapotskin sent a letter to Moscow asking that they remain part of Poland.

Samuel Hirsch Margulies

He was born in Berezhany, western Ukraine (then mainly Polish speaking town with mixed Polish, Ukrainian and Jewish population in the kingdom of Galicia of Austro-Hungarian Empire), and studied at the Breslau Jewish Theological Seminary and at the universities of Breslau and Leipzig, in Germany.

Sieciechów

Sieciechów (Sytykhiv), a village in Lviv Oblast of western Ukraine;

Włodawa

It is close to the Belarusian southernmost strip of the Brest Raion within the Brest Region bordering with north-western Ukraine.

Włodzimierz

Volodymyr-Volynskyi in Volyn Oblast (Western Ukraine) formerly known as Włodzimierz Wołyński.