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Biliavyntsi

Biliavyntsi
Білявинці
Coordinates: 49°09′01″N 25°22′2″E / 49.15028°N 25.36722°E / 49.15028; 25.36722Coordinates: 49°09′01″N 25°22′2″E / 49.15028°N 25.36722°E / 49.15028; 25.36722
Country  Ukraine
Oblast  Ternopil Oblast
Raion Buchach Raion
Area
 • Total 2,068 km2 (798 sq mi)
Population (2001 census)
 • Total 624
 • Density 301,74/km2 (78,150/sq mi)
Time zone EET (UTC+2)
 • Summer (DST) EEST (UTC+3)
Postal code 48413
Area code(s) +380 3544

Biliavyntsi (Ukrainian: Білявинці) is a village in the Buchach Raion (district) of the Ternopil Oblast (province) in western Ukraine. Strypa River flows through of the village. In the village lived 624 inhabitants in 2001.

First written mention comes from the 17th century. Then belonged to the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, from 1772 until 1918 to Austrian (Habsburg Monarchy, Austrian Empire, Austria-Hungary) empires, in 1918-1919 to West Ukrainian People's Republic. From 1991 belonged to Ukraine.

Reading room of Ukrainian society Prosvita operated in the village.

Solomiya Krushelnytska, one of the brightest soprano opera stars of the first half of the 20th century, was born in the village.




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