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Ivano-Frankivsk (ĭvä`nô-fräng`kĭfsk), Rus. Ivano-Frankovsk, formerly Stanislav (stənyĭsläf`), city (1989 pop. 214,000), capital of Ivano-Frankivsk region, W Ukraine, on the Bystrytsya River. It is a rail junction and industrial center situated in a fertile agricultural zone of the Carpathian foothills. The city has diverse light industries such as woodworking, machinery and furniture making, and food processing.
An old Ukrainian settlement, the city was chartered in 1662 as the Polish town of Stanisławów. Despite Tatar and Turkish raids, it flourished as a trade center in the 17th and 18th cent. It became the bishopric of the Ukrainian Catholic (Uniate) Church in 1850. It passed to Austria in 1772 and to Poland in 1919 and was incorporated into Ukraine in 1939. The city and oblast were renamed in 1962 in honor of the Ukrainian poet and writer Ivan Franko Franko, Ivan (ē`vän frän`kō), 1856–1916, Ukrainian writer and nationalist. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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The group includes Mykola Charnetsky, apostolic eparch of Volyn and Pidlyashia, and 25 companion martyrs; to the above martyrs must be added the young Ruthenian Bishop Theodore Romzha, apostolic administrator of Mucacheve, Ukraine, and Emilian Kovtch, priest of the Eparchy of Stanislaviv (now Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine) who died in the concentration camp of Majdanek in 1944. The Centre for Political Studies at Donetsk University, Young Diplomacy based at Lviv's Ivano-Frankivsk University and the 2,000-strong Young Christian Democrats are further examples. holds an exploration license that expires in July 2009 for the above properties and the following other undeveloped properties located in Western Ukraine: Peremyshlyanskaya, Chukvinskaya in Lviv region, and Pilipovskaya in Ivano-Frankivsk region. |
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