Kostiukhnivka

Kostyukhnivka (Ukrainian: Костюхнівка, Polish: Kostiuchnówka) is a village in Kamin-Kashyrskyi Raion of Volyn Oblast, Ukraine, but was formerly administered within Manevytskyi Raion.

Key facts

Settlement.name: Kostiukhnivka
Settlement.settlement_type: Village
Settlement.image_skyline: File:Могили польських легіонерів.jpg
Settlement.image_caption: Polish military cemetery from World War I
Settlement.subdivision_type: Country
Settlement.subdivision_type1: Oblast
Settlement.subdivision_name1: Volyn
Settlement.subdivision_type2: Raion
Settlement.subdivision_name2: Kamin-Kashyrskyi
Settlement.pushpin_map: Ukraine
Settlement.area_total_km2: 1.1
Settlement.elevation_m: 162

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Kostyukhnivka (Ukrainian: Костюхнівка, Polish: Kostiuchnówka) is a village in Kamin-Kashyrskyi Raion of Volyn Oblast, Ukraine, but was formerly administered within Manevytskyi Raion.

==History== thumb|left|Polish Legions in World War I|Polish Legions in the [[Battle of Kostiuchnówka, 1916]] The village was either founded or first mentioned in 1577. It formed part of the Volhynian Voivodeship in the Lesser Poland Province of the Kingdom of Poland until the Third Partition of Poland in 1795, when it was annexed by Russia.