Gammalsvenskby
Also known as Verbivka, Staroshvedske, Staroshvedskoye, Gammelsvenskby, Old Swedish Village
thumb|The former Swedish church in Gammalsvenskby. St John's Lutheran parish church has been rebuilt and serves as an Orthodox church today Gammalsvenskby (; ; ) is a former village that is now a neighbourhood of Zmiivka () in Beryslav Raion of Kherson Oblast, Ukraine. It was briefly known as Verbivka () prior to being integrated with Zmiivka. Gammalsvenskby is known for its Estonian Swedish cultural heritage.
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Place details
- Locality
- Зміївка
- Region
- Херсонська область
- Country
- Україна
- Population
- 0
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Key facts
Article
11 sectionsContents
- History
- Resettlement of Estonian Swedes and founding of Gammalsvenskby
- Maintaining the Swedish heritage
- Relocation attempt to Sweden
- Soviet repression, Holodomor, and World War II
- Since 1991
- Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Gammalsvenska dialect
- See also
- References
- External links and further reading
thumb|The former Swedish church in Gammalsvenskby. St John's Lutheran parish church has been rebuilt and serves as an Orthodox church today Gammalsvenskby (; ; ) is a former village that is now a neighbourhood of Zmiivka () in Beryslav Raion of Kherson Oblast, Ukraine. It was briefly known as Verbivka () prior to being integrated with Zmiivka. Gammalsvenskby is known for its Estonian Swedish cultural heritage.
Zmiyivka also includes three former villages settled by ethnic Germans: The Lutheran villages of Schlangendorf and Mühlhausendorf and the Roman Catholic village of Klosterdorf. In the nineteenth century, the whole region, and large parts of southern Russia, contained villages settled by Germans belonging to various Protestant faiths, particularly Lutherans and Mennonites, as well as Roman Catholics.
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