Duba, Ukraine Explained

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]

History

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.

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.[5]

Notable residents

References

  1. Web site: Дубівська територіальна громада . Duba territorial hromada . 31 May 2023 . decentralization.gov.ua . uk.
  2. Web site: Села и поселки: Рожнятовского района . Villages and settlements: Rozhniativ Raion . 31 May 2023 . Our Travels . ru.
  3. Web site: Дуба . Duba . 31 May 2023 . Wooden Churches of Western Ukraine . uk.
  4. Book: Kubijovyč, Volodymyr . Етнічні групи південнозахідної України (Галичини) на 1.1.1939 . 1983 . Wiesbaden . 20 . uk . Ethnic groups of southwestern Ukraine (Galicia) on 1.1.1939 . Volodymyr Kubijovyč.
  5. Web site: Перепис населення . Census . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20140731182036/http://database.ukrcensus.gov.ua/Mult/Database/Census/databasetree_uk.asp . 31 July 2014 . 31 May 2023 . State Statistics Service of Ukraine.