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Berestiany
Rural locality in Lviv Oblast, Ukraine From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Berestiany (Ukrainian: Берестяни, Polish: Brześciany) is a village (selo) in Sambir Raion, Lviv Oblast, in south-west Ukraine. Volia-Berestiany belongs to Biskovychi rural hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine.[1]
The village was first mentioned in 1469. The local Orthodox church was mentioned in 1507. In the interwar period the village belonged to Poland. A Catholic parish was erected in 1920. Before World War 2 Berestiany had around 1,200 inhabitants, one third of them were Poles.[2]
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