Sokal

Coordinates: 50°29′N 24°17′E / 50.483°N 24.283°E / 50.483; 24.283
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Sokal
Сокаль
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Townhouses on the square in the city center
Townhouses on the square in the city center
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Sokal (Ukrainian: Сокаль, romanized: Sokal) is a city located on the Bug River in Chervonohrad Raion, Lviv Oblast of western Ukraine. It hosts the administration of Sokal urban hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine.[1] The population is approximately 20,373 (2022 estimate).[2]

History

Austrian stamp featuring Emperor Francis Joseph I cancelled in 1911 in Sokal, Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria

The first written mention of Sokal dates from 1377.[

Lesser Poland Province of the Polish Crown. On August 2, 1519, following the defeat of a Polish-Lithuanian army under Hetman Konstanty Ostrogski by Crimean Tatars, the town was razed by the invaders. Mikolaj Sep-Szarzynski
later dedicated one of his poems to this battle.

The town remained part of Poland until the

Lwow Voivodeship
.

Sokal was in Polish territory until the German

No.4 Street of Our Lady).[4] The Soviet army recaptured the town in July 1944,[5] though the western part of the town (the former village of Zhvirka) remained part of Poland between 1944 and 1951 (see 1951 Polish–Soviet territorial exchange).[citation needed
]

In the early 17th century, a large

Hrubieszow, while the monastery was turned into a prison. On March 27, 2012, the historic complex was almost completely destroyed by fire.[citation needed
]

Until 18 July 2020, Sokal was the administrative center of Sokal Raion. The raion was abolished in July 2020 as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced the number of raions of Lviv Oblast to seven. The area of Sokal Raion was merged into Chervonohrad Raion.[6][7]

Notable people

In fiction

Sokal is the location of the opening of the 2009 novel

Soviet-occupied Poland
in June 1941. Sokal is mentioned in The Good Soldier Švejk by Jaroslav Hašek as the town passed by Austro-Hungarian soldiers on the way to the battlefields of World War I. The short story Squadron Commander Trunov by Isaac Babel centres around the burial of the title character in the public gardens next to Sokal's cathedral.[9]

In film

Sokal was the setting for two documentary films: One was the

No.4 Street of Our Lady (2009) about the rescue of three Jewish families in Sokal by Franciczka Halamajowa family, and the other was The Same Snowy Ground
(2020), that featured the ruined synagogue and the new park and told the tale of the town's Jewish community.

Gallery

  • Bernardine Monastery
    Bernardine Monastery
  • Saint Nicholas church
    Saint Nicholas church
  • Cathedral of Saints Apostles Peter and Paul
    Cathedral of Saints Apostles Peter and Paul
  • Roman Catholic Church
    Roman Catholic Church
  • Church of Archangel Michael
    Church of Archangel Michael
  • Gymnasium
    Gymnasium
  • Department of State Treasury in Sokal district
    Department of State Treasury in Sokal district
  • City hall of Sokal
    City hall of Sokal
  • Tower and walls of Bridgettines convent
    Tower and walls of Bridgettines convent

References

  1. ^ "Сокальская городская громада" (in Russian). Портал об'єднаних громад України.
  2. ^ Чисельність наявного населення України на 1 січня 2022 [Number of Present Population of Ukraine, as of January 1, 2022] (PDF) (in Ukrainian and English). Kyiv: State Statistics Service of Ukraine. Archived (PDF) from the original on 4 July 2022.
  3. ^ Die postalischen Abstempelungen auf den österreichischen Postwertzeichen-Ausgaben 1867, 1883 und 1890, Wilhelm KLEIN, 1967
  4. ^ a b Halamajowa FAMILY
  5. ^ Search of a Shared Past in East Galicia, With Camera in Hand
  6. ^ "Про утворення та ліквідацію районів. Постанова Верховної Ради України № 807-ІХ". Голос України (in Ukrainian). 2020-07-18. Retrieved 2020-10-03.
  7. ^ "Нові райони: карти + склад" (in Ukrainian). Міністерство розвитку громад та територій України.
  8. ^ Ukrainian Cooperative Movement in Diaspora.': Historical Overview, 1940–1992. Editor-in-chief Omelan Pleshkewych. Chicago, Illinois: World Council of Ukrainian Cooperatives. pp.135–137
  9. ISBN 0140015221
    .

External links
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