Horodenka
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Horodenka (Ukrainian: Городенка) is a city located in the Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, in western Ukraine. It is the administrative center of the Horodenkivsky Raion (district), and is located at around .
The current estimated population is around 9,800 (as of 2001).
[edit] External links
- Horodenka in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine
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Administrative divisions of Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, Ukraine |  |
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Raions: Bohorodchanskyi | Dolynskyi | Halytskyi | Horodenkivskyi | Kaluskyi | Kolomyiskyi | Kosivskyi | Rohatynskyi | Rozhniativskyi | Sniatynskyi | Tlumatskyi | Tysmenytskyi | Verkhovynskyi |
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Cities: Bolekhiv | Burshtyn | Dolyna | Halych | Horodenka | Ivano-Frankivsk | Kalush | Kolomyia | Kosiv | Nadvirna | Rohatyn | Sniatyn | Tlumach | Tysmenytsia | Yaremche |
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Urban-type settlements: Bohorodchany | Kuty | Rozhniativ | Verkhovyna | Vorokhta | Zabolotiv | more... |
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Villages: Cherche | Cheremkhiv | Lisnyi Khlibychyn | Lypivka | more... |
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During World War 2 The Jewish population Horadenka comprising about half of the towns population were shot and killed in a mass grave by the Nazis. About a dozen Jews survived and formed a partisan combat unit which fought against the Nazis and the local Pro-Nazi Ukrainian bands and hid in the forests.
