Verkhovyna
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Verkhovyna (Ukrainian: Верховина; before 1962, Polish: Żabie, Ukrainian: Жаб'є) is a town located in the western Ukrainian oblast (province) of Ivano-Frankivsk. The city is located in the Hutsul region of Carpathian Mountains, on the Cheremosh River, a tributary of the Prut. Verkhovyna is currently an important tourist center in Ukraine.
In 1918-1939, Zabie it belonged to Poland and was located in the Kosów Powiat (county) of the Stanisławów Voivodeship. Back then, Zabie was one of main tourist centers of the country, attracting people from as far away as England. It was also the biggest rural community in Poland (in terms of territory).
Unfortunately, after years of Soviet rules, the village itself does not resemble a picturesque mountain spa that existed in the 1930s.[citation needed] There is an interesting Orthodox church, a Hutsul museum in Ilce and a Polish cemetery with monuments of soldiers of the Polish Border Patrol who died while protecting the pre-1939 border. Another important attraction in Verkhovyna is the museum of Roman Kumluk.
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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... |
