Duba, Ukraine
Village in Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, Ukraine
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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]
Duba
Дуба | |
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Saint Nicholas Church in Duba | |
 Interactive map of Duba | |
  Duba Location of Duba in Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast  Duba Location of Duba in Ukraine | |
| Coordinates: 48°50′53″N 24°9′12″E | |
| Country |  Ukraine |
| Oblast |  Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast |
| Raion | Kalush Raion |
| Established | 1535 |
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.[3]
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.[4]
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
- Svitlana Blonska, Ukrainian poet