Zhovkva

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Image:Zhovkva vlasenko.jpg Image:Zhovkva street.jpg Zhovkva (Ukrainian: Жовква, Polish: Żółkiew, German: Zolkiew) is a city in the Lviv Oblast (province) of western Ukraine. It is the administrative center of the Zhovkivsky Raion (district). The current estimated population is 36,000.

[edit] History

The site of Zhovkva has been inhabited since the 14th century. In 1594 the Polish nobleman Stanisław Żółkiewski fortified the settlement and constructed a castle. In only a few years the town grew greatly in size, becoming a 17th century residence for King John III Sobieski of Poland.

While part of the Soviet Union, Zhovkva in 1951 was renamed Nesterov after the World War I aviator Pyotr Nesterov who became the first to perform a suicide plane crash in the history of aviation near Zhovkva. The name Zhovkva was restored in 1992.

[edit] People

Salcia Landmann, a studier of Yiddish (eastern Ashkenazic) culture
Jakub Ludwik Sobieski, Jakub Sobieski
Pyotr Nesterov
Włodzimierz Puchalski
Żółkiewski
- Stanisław Żółkiewski
Andreas Schlüter
Włodzimierz Stożek
Hillel ben Naphtali Zevi
Nachman Krochmal, Jewish philosopher
Jacob ben Wolf Kranz, maggid

Image:Lwiw-oblast-COA.PNG	Subdivisions of Lviv Oblast, Ukraine	Image:Flag of Ukraine.svg

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