Liubeshiv

Liubeshiv (Ukrainian: Любешів; Polish: Lubieszów; Belarusian: Любяшоў, romanized: Lubiašoŭ; Yiddish: ליבישויוו) is an urban-type settlement in Kamin-Kashyrskyi Raion, Volyn Oblast, western Ukraine. It is located in the historic region of Polesia. It is the administrative seat of Liubeshiv settlement hromada. Population: 5,702 (2022 estimate).[1]

Liubeshiv
Liubeshiv is located in Volyn Oblast
Liubeshiv
Liubeshiv
Liubeshiv is located in Ukraine
Liubeshiv
Liubeshiv
Coordinates: 51°46′N 25°30′E
Country Ukraine
Oblast Volyn Oblast
RaionKamin-Kashyrskyi Raion
First mentioned1484
Area
  Total339 km2 (131 sq mi)
Population
 (2022)
  Total5,702
  Density17/km2 (44/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+2 (EET)
  Summer (DST)UTC+3 (EEST)

History

Historical affiliations

Grand Duchy of Lithuania 1484–1569
Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth 1569–1795
 Russian Empire 1795–1917
 Ukrainian People's Republic 1917-1918, 1918-1919
 Second Polish Republic 1919–1945
   Soviet Union 1939–1941 (occupation)
   Nazi Germany 1941–1944 (occupation)
   Soviet Union 1944–1945 (occupation)
 Soviet Union 1945–1991
 Ukraine 1991–present

Lubieszów was first mentioned in 1484. It was a private town of Grand Duchy of Lithuania, later part of Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. After the Partitions of Poland it was annexed by Russia.

On 9 November 1943, 300 Poles were murdered by the Ukrainians as part of the genocide of Poles in Volhynia. A 2013 monument on the local Polish cemetery commemorates the victims[2]

Notable people

References

  1. 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.
  2. Grzegorz Rąkowski, "Wołyń", page 77


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