Village in Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, Ukraine
| Duba Дуба | |
|---|---|
| village | |
 Saint Nicholas Church in Duba | |
  DubaLocation of Duba in Ivano-Frankivsk OblastShow map of Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast DubaLocation of Duba in UkraineShow map of Ukraine | |
| Coordinates: 48°50′53″N 24°9′12″E / 48.84806°N 24.15333°E / 48.84806; 24.15333 | |
| Country |  Ukraine |
| Oblast |  Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast |
| Raion | Kalush Raion |
Duba (Ukrainian: Дуба) is a village in Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, Ukraine, located in Kalush Raion. It is the centre of the Duba rural hromada.
History
The village of Duba was founded in 1535. Its residents participated in the 1648 Khmelnytsky Uprising.
The Saint Nicholas Church of Duba, a wooden church, was first mentioned in 1685, and was also mentioned as part of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Lviv in 1708. Under the Soviet Union it was part of the Russian Orthodox Church, but it is today owned by the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church.
Demographics
In 1939, Duba had a population of 1,470. Of these, 1,440 were Ukrainians, 10 were Poles, and another 20 were Latynnyky, a Roman Catholic subgroup of Ukrainians.
In the 1989 Soviet census Duba had a population of 1,269. This number dropped to 1,138 by the 2001 Ukrainian census. According to the 2001 census, 99.74% of the population spoke Ukrainian, while the remaining 0.17% spoke Russian.
Notable residents
- Svitlana Blonska [uk], Ukrainian poet
References
- "Дубівська територіальна громада" [Duba territorial hromada]. decentralization.gov.ua (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 31 May 2023.
- ^ "Села и поселки: Рожнятовского района" [Villages and settlements: Rozhniativ Raion]. Our Travels (in Russian). Retrieved 31 May 2023.
- ^ "Дуба" [Duba]. Wooden Churches of Western Ukraine (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 31 May 2023.
- ^ Kubijovyč, Volodymyr (1983). Етнічні групи південнозахідної України (Галичини) на 1.1.1939 [Ethnic groups of southwestern Ukraine (Galicia) on 1.1.1939] (in Ukrainian). Wiesbaden. p. 20.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - "Перепис населення" [Census]. State Statistics Service of Ukraine. Archived from the original on 31 July 2014. Retrieved 31 May 2023.