Bishche

Rural locality in Ternopil Oblast, Ukraine
Place in Ternopil Oblast, Ukraine
Bishche
Біще
Church of the Assumption in Bishche
Church of the Assumption in Bishche
49°33′01″N 24°54′19″E / 49.55028°N 24.90528°E / 49.55028; 24.90528
Country Ukraine
Oblast Ternopil Oblast
RaionTernopil Raion
Time zoneUTC+2 (EET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+3 (EEST)
Postal code
47512
Area code+380 3548

Bishche (Ukrainian: Біще, Polish: Buszcze) is a village in Ternopil Raion, Ternopil Oblast of western Ukraine. It belongs to Berezhany urban hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine.[1] First historical records date Bishche as far as to 1339.

Until 18 July 2020, Bishche belonged to Berezhany Raion. The raion was abolished in July 2020 as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced the number of raions of Ternopil Oblast to three. The area of Berezhany Raion was merged into Ternopil Raion.[2][3]

Population

  • Population in 1900: 869 inhabitants (66 Jews).
  • Population in 1939: 1059 inhabitants (40 Jews).
  • Population in 2003: 556 inhabitants with over 161 houses.
  • Population in 2014: 464.

People

  • Oleh Shupliak (born 1967), Ukrainian artist

References

Notes

  1. ^ "Бережанская городская громада" (in Russian). Портал об'єднаних громад України.
  2. ^ "Про утворення та ліквідацію районів. Постанова Верховної Ради України № 807-ІХ". Голос України (in Ukrainian). 2020-07-18. Retrieved 2020-10-03.
  3. ^ "Нові райони: карти + склад" (in Ukrainian). Міністерство розвитку громад та територій України.

Sources

  • (in Ukrainian) О. Клименко, В. Уніят, В. Файфура, Біще // Ternopil Encyclopedic Dictionary: in 4 v. / editorial board: H. Yavorskyi and other, Ternopil: "Zbruch", 2004, V. 1: А—Й, S. 140-141. — ISBN 966-528-197-6.

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