Matkiv
Matkiv
Матків | |
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Village | |
 St. Dmytro's Church | |
  Matkiv | |
| Coordinates: 48°54′29″N 23°06′04″E / 48.90806°N 23.10111°ECoordinates: 48°54′29″N 23°06′04″E / 48.90806°N 23.10111°E | |
| 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.
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- ^ 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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