Official Name: | Duba |
Native Name: | Ukrainian: Дуба |
Settlement Type: | village |
Pushpin Map: | Ukraine Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast#Ukraine |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location of Duba in Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast##Location of Duba in Ukraine |
Coordinates: | 48.8481°N 24.1533°W |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Type1: | Oblast |
Subdivision Type2: | Raion |
Subdivision Name2: | Kalush Raion |
Established Date: | 1535 |
Duba (Ukrainian: Дуба) is a village in Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, Ukraine, located in Kalush Raion. It is the centre of the Duba rural hromada.[1]
The village of Duba was founded in 1535. Its residents participated in the 1648 Khmelnytsky Uprising.[2]
The Saint Nicholas Church of Duba, a wooden church,[3] was first mentioned in 1685,[2] and was also mentioned as part of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Lviv in 1708.[4] Under the Soviet Union it was part of the Russian Orthodox Church, but it is today owned by the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church.
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.[5]