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Revision as of 15:30, 11 August 2012
Variazh
Варяж | |
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 Panorama of Variazh with the St. Mark's Church seen in the distance. | |
 Coat of arms | |
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| Country |  Ukraine |
| Province |  Lviv Oblast |
| District | Sokal Raion |
| First mentioned | 1419 |
| Magdeburg rights | 1538 |
| Government | |
| • Village Head | Yuriy Horodko (NRU) |
| Area | |
• Total | 2.17 km2 (0.84 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 202 m (663 ft) |
| Population (2001) | |
• Total | 888 |
| • Density | 410/km2 (1,100/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+2 (EET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+3 (EEST) |
| Postal code | 80014 |
| Area code | +380 3257 |
| Website | http://rada.gov.ua/ |
Variazh (Template:Lang-uk; Template:Lang-pl) is a former city (currently a village) in the Sokal Raion (district) of Lviv Oblast (province) in western Ukraine. Its population is 888 as of the 2001 Ukrainian Census.[2] The village is located close to the border with Poland, near the Polish village of Uśmierz.[3]
The first written documents date the settlement back to in 1419 as Waręż.[3] In 1538, the settlement was granted the Magdeburg rights.[3][4] Waręż had a significant population of Jews living in the city: in 1880, there were 880 Jews; in 1900, there were 964 Jews; in 1921, there were 520 Jews. During the Holocaust, Waręż's entire Jewish population was killed.[5]
Until the Soviet invasion of Poland in 1939, Waręż was a part of the Lwów Voivodeship; after the war, the settlement became a part of the Hrubieszów County of the Lublin Voivodeship. During the 1951 Polish–Soviet territorial exchange, Waręż along with the rest of the Sokal Raion was transferred from the People's Republic of Poland to the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic.[6]
Prior to the territorial exchange, Waręż was the seat of the Gmina Waręż, an urban-rural administrative district of Poland. In 1951, the settlement lost its city status and became a village.[3][7] It was then renamed to Novoukrainka (Template:Lang-uk),[2] a name which it kept until 1989 when it was reverted back to its original—albeit Ukrainian variant of the name, "Variazh."
See also
References
- ^ "Variazh (Lviv Oblast, Sokal Raion)". weather.in.ua. Retrieved 15 February 2012.
- ^ a b "Variazh, Lviv Oblast, Sokal Raion". Regions of Ukraine and their Structure (in Ukrainian). Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine. Retrieved 15 February 2012.
- ^ a b c d "Variazh". karpaty.info (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 16 February 2012.
- ^ "Variazh". Architectural and Natural Monuments of Ukraine (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 16 February 2012.
- ^ "Variazh". Russian Jewish Encyclopedia (in Russian). Retrieved 16 February 2012.
- ^ Sylwester Fertacz, Krojenie mapy Polski: Bolesna granica. Alfa. Retrieved from the Internet Archive on 14 November 2011
- ^ "Variazh. St. Mark's Cathedral (1688-1693)". Ukraina Incognita (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 16 February 2012.
External links
- "22 May: Belz, Uhniv, Variazh, Tartakiv" (Photogallery). Zabrama (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 20 February 2012.