Vyshnivchyk

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Vyshnivchyk

Tarnopol Voivodeship before 17 September 1939. Vyshnivchyk is located south of Ternopil on the Strypa river.
Tarnopol Voivodeship before 17 September 1939. Vyshnivchyk is located south of Ternopil on the Strypa river.

(Ukrainian: Вишнівчик, also Vyshnivchyky, Polish: Wisniowczyki) (uk lang:) - village in the Terebovlia area of the Ternopil Oblast, Ukraine. Located on the western bank of the Strypa river. It neighbours the village of Zarvanytsia. It was founded in 1564 and currently has a population of 627.

The village of Vyshnivchyk was part of Austrian Empire (until 1918), then again part of Poland (1918-1939), the Soviet Union (1944-1991) and in 1991 part of an independent Ukraine.

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