Sokal
Sign in to saveSokal (, Polish: Sokal) is a city located on the Bug River in Sheptytskyi Raion, Lviv Oblast of western Ukraine. It hosts the administration of Sokal urban hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. The population is approximately
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Sokal
- Settlement.native_name
- Сокаль
- Settlement.native_name_lang
- uk
- Settlement.settlement_type
- City
- Settlement.image_skyline
- 2015 Sokal, Kamienice na placu w centrum miasta.JPG
- Settlement.image_caption
- Townhouses on the square in the city center
- Settlement.image_shield
- File:Coat_of_arms_Sokal.svg
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Ukraine Lviv Oblast#Ukraine
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Province
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Lviv Oblast
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- District
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Sheptytskyi Raion
- Settlement.established_title
- First mentioned
- Settlement.established_date
- 1377
- Settlement.population_as_of
- 2022
- Settlement.population_total
- 20373
- Settlement.timezone
- EET
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Sokal (, Polish: Sokal) is a city located on the Bug River in Sheptytskyi Raion, Lviv Oblast of western Ukraine. It hosts the administration of Sokal urban hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. The population is approximately
== History == thumb|left|Building of the Sokół movement|Sokół Polish Gymnastic Society in the 1930s The first written mention of Sokal dates from 1377. In 1424, it received Magdeburg rights from Siemowit IV, Duke of Masovia, and in 1462, the town became part of Bełz Voivodeship, Lesser Poland Province. On August 2, 1519, following the defeat of a Polish-Lithuanian army under Hetman Konstanty Ostrogski by Crimean Tatars, the town was razed by the invaders. Mikolaj Sep-Szarzynski later dedicated one of his poems to this battle. In 1619, Armenians in Sokal were first mentioned.