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Zhovkva Жовква
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Zhovkva Location of Zhovkva
Coordinates: 50°4′0″N 23°58′0″E / 50.06667, 23.96667
Country Oblast Raion	Ukraine Lviv Oblast Zhovkivskyi Raion
Founded	1597
City rights	1603
Area
- Total	7.64 km2 (2.9 sq mi)
Population
- Total	13,316
- Density	1,742/km2 (4,511.8/sq mi)
Postal code	80300—80304
Area code(s)	+380 3252

Zhovkva (Ukrainian: Жовква; Polish: Żółkiew; Yiddish: Zholkva) is a city in the Lviv Oblast (province) of western Ukraine. It is the administrative center of the Zhovkivskyi Raion (district). The current estimated population is 13,500.

History

The site of Zhovkva has been inhabited since the 14th century. In 1594 the Polish nobleman Stanisław Żółkiewski fortified the settlement and constructed a castle. In only a few years the town grew greatly in size, becoming a 17th century residence for King John III Sobieski of Poland.

While part of the Soviet Union, Zhovkva in 1951 was renamed Nesterov after the World War I aviator Pyotr Nesterov who became the first to perform a suicide plane crash in the history of aviation near Zhovkva. The name Zhovkva was restored in 1992.

Image gallery

View of Zhovkva.

A street of Zhovkva.

Old market place in Zhovkva.

People

• Zbigniew Burzynski
• Salcia Landmann, a studier of Yiddish (eastern Ashkenazic) culture
• Jakub Ludwik Sobieski, Jakub Sobieski
• Pyotr Nesterov
• Włodzimierz Puchalski
• Żółkiewski
  • Stanisław Żółkiewski
• Andreas Schlüter
• Włodzimierz Stożek
• Hillel ben Naphtali Zevi
• Nachman Krochmal, Jewish philosopher
• Jacob ben Wolf Kranz, maggid

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External links

• castles.com.ua - Zhovkva
• ua.vlasenko.net - Pictures of Zhovkva

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