Dovzhanka, Ternopil Oblast

Dovzhanka () is a village in Pidhorodnie rural hromada, Ternopil Raion, Ternopil Oblast, Ukraine.

History

The first written mention of the village was in 1464.

Religion

• St. John the Baptist church (1795, brick, restored in 1996).

Notable residents

• Sofia Okunevska (1865–1926), Ukrainian physician, educator, feminist, and scholar. She was the first female Doctor of Medicine and the first female physician in Austria-Hungary.

In the village, Petro Bilynskyi (1893–1896) and Ostap Nyzhankivskyi (1896–1897) pastored.

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