Bibrka
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Bibrka ( , ; ; ) is a city in western Ukraine, located in Lviv Raion of Lviv Oblast (region) about 29 km southeast of Lviv on H09. It hosts the administration of Bibrka urban hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. The population is approximately The town has been ruled at various points by the Kingdom of Poland, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, the Austrian Empire, the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria, the Russian Empire, Poland, the Soviet Union, and is now part of the Lviv Oblast in Ukraine; as a result Bibrka has had several official and native names, including: Bóbrka (Polish), Bobrka (Russian), Prachnik (German), and Boiberik/Boyberke (Yiddish). The city has a population of 3,980. Bibrka was the site of a Soviet prison and detention centre that detained Poles and others in the mid-20th century.
Bibrka ( , ; ; ) is a city in western Ukraine, located in Lviv Raion of Lviv Oblast (region) about 29 km southeast of Lviv on H09. It hosts the administration of Bibrka urban hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. The population is approximately The town has been ruled at various points by the Kingdom of Poland, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, the Austrian Empire, the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria, the Russian Empire, Poland, the Soviet Union, and is now part of the Lviv Oblast in Ukraine; as a result Bibrka has had several official and native names, including: Bóbrka (Polish), Bobrka (Russian), Prachnik (German), and Boiberik/Boyberke (Yiddish). The city has a population of 3,980. Bibrka was the site of a Soviet prison and detention centre that detained Poles and others in the mid-20th century.
Demographics
As of the Ukrainian census in 2001, the town had a population 3,949 inhabitants1. The ethnic and linguistic composition was as follows:
Gallery
File:Бібрка .Церква Богоявлення Господнього.JPG|Epiphany Church in Bibrka File:Бібрка Костел Св.Миколи.jpg|St. Nicholas Church File:Bibrka by Mykola Swarnyk.jpg|A street in Bibrka File:Парк у м. Бібрка ХІХ ст. Стан травень 2013 р. 2.JPG|City park
External links
Bóbrka (Bibrka) in the Geographical Dictionary of the Kingdom of Poland (1880) JewishGen ShtetLinks, Bóbrka by Bev Shulster. Retrieved 25 May 2006 My Bibrka
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