Variazh
Sign in to saveVariazh (; ) is a village (former town) in Sheptytskyi Raion (district) of Lviv Oblast (province) in western Ukraine. Its population is 825 as of the 2024 Census. The village is located close to the border with Poland, near the Polish village of Uśmierz. It belongs to Sokal urban hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine.
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Within Vinony's link graph, Variazh is referenced by 16 other articles, and connects out to Poland, Ukraine and World War II.
The entry is geolocated on the map, across 2 mapped points.
Vinony files it under Holocaust locations in Ukraine, Populated places established in the 1410s and Villages in Sheptytskyi Raion.
Its subject is documented across 13 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Variazh
- Settlement.native_name
- Варяж
- Settlement.native_name_lang
- uk
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Village
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Костел святого Марка.jpg
- Settlement.image_caption
- St. Mark's Church
- Settlement.image_shield
- UKR Varyazh COA.gif
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Ukraine Lviv Oblast#Ukraine
- Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
- Location of Variazh in Ukraine
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_name
- Ukraine
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Oblast
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Lviv Oblast
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- Raion
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Sheptytskyi Raion
- Settlement.subdivision_type3
- Hromada
- Settlement.subdivision_name3
- Sokal urban hromada
- Settlement.established_title
- First mentioned
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Country
- Austria–Hungary
- Located in
- Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria
- Area
- 2.17
- Elevation
- 202
- Time zone
- UTC+02:00
- Body of water
- Varezhanka
- Official website
- w1.c1.rada.gov.ua/pls/z7502/A005?rdat1=16.02.2012&rf7571=20999
- Image
- Waręż Panorama.jpg
- Dialing code
- 3257
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- Commons category
- Varyazh
- postal code
- 80014
- inception
- 1419-00-00
- on focus list of Wikimedia project
- WikiProject Ukraine
Sources (3)
via Wikidata · CC0
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Encyclopedic overview
5 sectionsContents
- History
- People from Variazh
- See also
- References
- External links
Variazh (; ) is a village (former town) in Sheptytskyi Raion (district) of Lviv Oblast (province) in western Ukraine. Its population is 825 as of the 2024 Census. The village is located close to the border with Poland, near the Polish village of Uśmierz. It belongs to Sokal urban hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine.
==History== The first written documents date the settlement back to in 1419 as Waręż. In 1538, the settlement was granted the Magdeburg rights. It formed part of the Kingdom of Poland until the First Partition of Poland in 1772, when it was annexed by Austria.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Variazh” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
On the map
2 mapped locations