Kalush, Ukraine
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Ukraine Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast Municipality |
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65 km² |
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63,800 1052.02/km² |
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Kalush (Ukrainian: Калуш, Polish: Kalusz, Yiddish קאַלוש, translit. Kalush or Kalish) is a city set in the foothills of the Carpathian Mountains, in the Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast (province) of western Ukraine. It is a separate municipality subordinate to the oblast, as well as the administrative center of the surrounding Kalusky Raion (district). The current estimated population is around 63,800 (as of 2004).
Important local industries include food processing, clothing manufacture, chemicals, handicrafts, woodcarving, and concrete.
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[edit] History
The earliest known mention of Kalush is the accounting of a settlement of that name in a Halychyna chronicle dated May 27, 1437. Incorporated as a city in 1939, the city has at times been part of Austria-Hungary and Poland.
Since the 16th Century, a Jewish community has flourished in the city; however, in 1941, while under Nazi control, that community was virtually eliminated.
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| Bačka Palanka |  Serbia |
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| Grand Prairie, Texas |  United States |
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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... |
