Dovzhanka, Ternopil Oblast
Dovzhanka (Ukrainian: Довжанка) is a village in Pidhorodne rural hromada, Ternopil Raion, Ternopil Oblast, Ukraine.
History
The first written mention of the village was in 1464.
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.
References
- ^ "Підгороднянська територіальна громада". Децентралізація.
- ^ (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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