Duba, Ukraine

Duba (Ukrainian: Дуба) is a village in Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, Ukraine, located in Kalush Raion. It is the centre of the Duba rural hromada.[1]

Duba
Дуба
Saint Nicholas Church in Duba
Saint Nicholas Church in Duba
Duba is located in Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast
Duba
Duba
Location of Duba in Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast
Duba is located in Ukraine
Duba
Duba
Location of Duba in Ukraine
Coordinates: 48°50′53″N 24°9′12″E
Country Ukraine
Oblast Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast
RaionKalush Raion

History

The village of Duba was founded in 1535. Its residents participated in the 1648 Khmelnytsky Uprising.[2]

The Saint Nicholas Church of Duba, a wooden church,[3] was first mentioned in 1685,[2] and was also mentioned as part of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Lviv in 1708.[4] Under the Soviet Union it was part of the Russian Orthodox Church, but it is today owned by the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church.[3]

Demographics

In 1939, Duba had a population of 1,470. Of these, 1,440 were Ukrainians, 10 were Poles, and another 20 were Latynnyky, a Roman Catholic subgroup of Ukrainians.[4]

In the 1989 Soviet census Duba had a population of 1,269. This number dropped to 1,138 by the 2001 Ukrainian census. According to the 2001 census, 99.74% of the population spoke Ukrainian, while the remaining 0.17% spoke Russian.[5]

Notable residents

  • Svitlana Blonska, Ukrainian poet

References

  1. "Дубівська територіальна громада" [Duba territorial hromada]. decentralization.gov.ua (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 31 May 2023.
  2. "Села и поселки: Рожнятовского района" [Villages and settlements: Rozhniativ Raion]. Our Travels (in Russian). Retrieved 31 May 2023.
  3. "Дуба" [Duba]. Wooden Churches of Western Ukraine (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 31 May 2023.
  4. Kubijovyč, Volodymyr (1983). Етнічні групи південнозахідної України (Галичини) на 1.1.1939 [Ethnic groups of southwestern Ukraine (Galicia) on 1.1.1939] (in Ukrainian). Wiesbaden. p. 20.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  5. "Перепис населення" [Census]. State Statistics Service of Ukraine. Archived from the original on 31 July 2014. Retrieved 31 May 2023.
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