Matkiv

Matkiv Матків
Village
St. Dmytro's Church
Matkiv
Coordinates: UA 48°54′29″N 23°06′04″E / 48.90806°N 23.10111°E / 48.90806; 23.10111Coordinates: UA 48°54′29″N 23°06′04″E / 48.90806°N 23.10111°E / 48.90806; 23.10111
Country	Ukraine
Oblast	Lviv
Raion	Turka
Area	12 km² (5 sq mi)
Population	469
• Density	39/km² (100/sq mi)

Matkiv (Ukrainian: Матків, Polish: Matków) is a village (selo) in Turka Raion, Lviv Oblast, in south-west Ukraine.

The village was probably established in the 15th century but was first mentioned in the first half of the 16th century. In the interwar period the village had around 1,500 inhabitants, 70% of them were Poles.^[1]

The village boasts the St. Dmytro's Church, built in 1838, in 2013 inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List together with other wooden tserkvas of Carpathian region in Poland and Ukraine.

References

↑ Rąkowski, Grzegorz (2013). Ukraińskie Karpaty i Podkarpacie. Część zachodnia. (in Polish). Pruszków: Oficyna Wydawnicza "Rewasz". p. 443. ISBN 978-83-62460-31-1.

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Populated places of Turka Raion

Administrative center: Turka, Ukraine

Cities	Turka

Urban-type settlements	Borynia

Villages	Bahnuvate Beniova Berezhok Bitlia Boberka Bukovynka Dnistryk-Dubovyi Haschiv Holovske Ilnyk Isai Ivashkivtsi Karpatske Kindrativ Komarnyky Korytysche Krasne Kryntyata Kryvka Lastivka Liktiv Limna Lopushanka Losynets Lybohora Mala Volosyanka Matkiv Melnychne Mezhyhir'ya Mohnate Nyzhnye Nyzhnye Husne Nyzhniy Turiv Nyzhnye Vysotske Nyzhnya Yablunka Pryslip Radych Ropavske Rozluch Rykiv Stodilka Shandrovets Shtukovets Shum'yach Sianky Svydnyk Syhlovate Verkhne Verkhne Vysotske Verkhne Husne Verkhnia Jablunka Verkhniy Turiv Vovche Yabluniv Yasenytsya Yasenka-Stetsova Yavora Yavoriv Zakychera Zakiptsi Zarichchya Zavadivka Zhukotyn Zvorets Zubrytsya

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