Nyzhbirok

Nyzhbirok (Ukrainian: Нижбірок) is a village in Vasylkivtsi rural hromada, Chortkiv Raion, Ternopil Oblast, Ukraine.[1]

Nyzhbirok
Нижбірок
Holy Trinity Church
Holy Trinity Church
Nyzhbirok is located in Ternopil Oblast
Nyzhbirok
Nyzhbirok
Location in Ternopil Oblast
Coordinates: 49°7′30″N 26°1′19″E
Country Ukraine
Oblast Ternopil Oblast
RaionChortkiv Raion
HromadaVasylkivtsi Hromada
Time zoneUTC+2 (EET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+3 (EEST)
Postal code
48255

History

The first written mention is in 1564 as Novyi Nyzhbirok.[2]

Religion
  • Greek Catholic Church of the Holy Trinity (circa 1700, brick, restored in 1897, rebuilt in 2007)[2]
  • Roman Catholic church (1886)[2]

People
  • Mykola Sichynskyi (1850–1894), Ukrainian priest, ambassador to the Galician Provincial Sejm, publicist[2]

References
  1. Васильковецька територіальна громада, Децентралізація
  2. (in Ukrainian) В. Уніят, С. Шворак, В. Щавінський, НижБірок // Ternopil region. History of cities and villages: in 3 v. / Ternopil: "Terno-graph", 2014, V. 2: Г—Л, S. 89—90. — ISBN 978-966-457-228-3.
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